display card & FCPX

[Mitch Ives]

Thanks guys for all the answers.

I just put a 5870 in my 2008 8-core and it runs like it’s on fire. I have playback at High Quality instead of better performance… I have the A/V output on to drive the Kona 3… and I have the scopes on during playback and it plays flawlessly… no dropped frames.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Bernard Newnham]

“….. and it runs like it’s on fire.”

Compared to before, one assumes. Not compared to a 2012 PC with a core i7, a GTX680, and an SSD carrying the operating system. Not that my machinery has all of that very expensive stuff, but I did upgrade various bits earlier this year because my 2008 kit was soooo slow. The SSD is a very good addition.

Bernie

[John Heagy]

I’d be very interested in somebodies experience with a 5870 upgrade from a 5770. Is it worth it?

Thanks
John

[Bernard Newnham]

There’s a comparison here – https://www.barefeats.com/wst10g7.html

Presumably ATI only keep these 2009 GPUs going for MacPro users.

Bernie

[Mitch Ives]

[Bernard Newnham] “Compared to before, one assumes. Not compared to a 2012 PC with a core i7, a GTX680, and an SSD carrying the operating system. Not that my machinery has all of that very expensive stuff, but I did upgrade various bits earlier this year because my 2008 kit was soooo slow. The SSD is a very good addition.”

Well, I can’t see how timeline performance could improve much, since it keeps up with all playback at max quality and keeps up with me when I jerk the mouse back and forth on the timeline. There is a point of diminishing returns, at which point going faster doesn’t produce results, depending on the function.

Having said that, clearly rendering would be a lot faster on the newer machines, since it’s processor driven. Perhaps importing, since I don’t know whether that is a processor or GPU activity…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Luc Charbonneau]

Hi,
Not sure if your display is in trouble. Can it be the Kona?

I have a Mac Pro 5.1 (12cores)
2×2.66Ghz
32GB
Radeon 5870
4 HD in Raid 5

Everything run smoothly even with the scope displayed.

For me, with over a 800 clips for one Event, the Event Library is not responsive as I thought it would be. (Thumnail view) But its another topic!