A.E. running on a Mac Pro

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A.E. running on a Mac Pro

Posted by Zander on August 20, 2006 at 3:11 am

So, we just got 29 mac pro’s at the digital lab at my school, and i decided to do a little test. Here are the contenders:

1 12″ Power Book G4
Processors 1.5ghz PowerPC G4
Memory 1.25GB DDR SDRAM
Mac OS X 10.4.6
Graphics Card-GeForce FX Go5200 w/ 64mb of Vram

2 Power Mac G5
Processor Dual 2 GHz Power PC G5
Memory 1GB DDR SDRAM
Mac OS X 10.4.7
ATI Radeon 9600 XT w/ 128mb of VRAM

3 Mac Pro
Processor 2 x 2 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon
Memory 1 gb 667 MHZ DDR2 FB DImm
Mac OS X 10.4.7
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT w/ 256 MB of VRam

All are running After Effects 7.0 (the Mac Pro Running under Rosetta) I chose an AEP from anvils Free Anvil set (specifically the butterfly Render under customshapes) All are on standard settings. But the render settings were set to RGB + Alpha with Caps Lock DOWN to stop the frame from cycling speeding up renders. The whole thing was 5 seconds Flat

The times ended up like this:

In First Place with a time of 3 min. 46 seconds was the Power Mac G5
In Second Place with a time of 7 min 11 Seconds is the Power mac g4 (my Little laptop)
And in a slow third is the Mac Pro running rosetta at 8 Min and 3 Seconds

Any Further Details can be inquired upon, Keep in mind these mac Pro’s as based out, i.e they are as low as you can go in the intel tower chain
Further tests coming in several other programs

-Aaron Zander

Filip Vandueren replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Chris Smith
August 20, 2006 at 3:01 pm

Thanks for doing that. I was curious myself. I have a couple MacPros in the mail and was wondering if I should just keep AE on the G5 for a while. Love to see any other tests you have going.
Filip Vandueren
August 20, 2006 at 8:37 pm

Thanks for these results…

We all know multi-processor support is not super in AE out of the box, so if at all possible,
could you do a multi-processor test using nucleo or with a render engine + AE on a watchfolder ?

Or perhaps that doesn’t work under rosetta ?

regards,

Filip

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