470 performance

[Ryan Snook]

Do Lion users actually need the Quadro drivers for Mac? I see everywhere on nVidias site that they are for leopard and snow leopard… Does Lion have these built in? or do they work just as good for Lion?

https://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.02.25f01-driver.html

[Sascha Haber]

They are built in and work just fine.
You only need to make really really sure you are running the 64bit kernel to not make CUDA crash when using 4.1.29

A slice of color…

DaVinci 8.2.1 OSX 10.7.2
MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Extreme 3D+

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[Alex Stolpakov]

You can try to run 470 alone. Because strangely enough mine 480 runs faster when alone. Having 480 and Quadro 3800 , running Hackintosh. No Power kext. H264 (canon5d) around 12-15 nodes blur100 – 25fps. when together its always slower 10 nodes 23-24 fps. 6core 24gigs ram. Try also to change pci lanes , it changes slitly for me.

[Ryan Snook]

Can one even ‘not’ run 64 bit kernels in Mac OSX these days, given that there is no 32/64 bit choice on install? Also, aren’t all the Intels at least Early 2008 and up 64bit CPUs?

I see you run 24GB of RAM, and earlier said Resolve uses 3GB~. What do you recommend for a system?

[Sascha Haber]

I recommend using Scratch 🙂

haha…just kidding…

I have the RAM for other things that use it, like Nuke, or AE or some simulation stuff i run.
Also I run Resolve in parallel to a Windows in a virtual machine or render in the background.
RAM us useful, but Resolve itself does not need it.

A slice of color…

DaVinci 8.2.1 OSX 10.7.2
MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Extreme 3D+

ICA Instructor
https://www.icolorist.com/Sascha.html