Dual nVidia Quadro 4000 in Mac Pro

[Walter Soyka]

[Trevor Schrodt] “Is it possible to run two Quadro 4000 in a Mac Pro and take advantage of both of them in Premiere Pro, After Effects and/or C4D?”

Premiere Pro CC supports multiple GPUs during export, speeding up output. Only a single GPU is used during regular playback. Premiere Pro CS6 uses only a single GPU.

After Effects CS6 and CC can use multiple NVIDIA CUDA GPUs like your Quadro 4000 for the ray-tracing renderer only. The classic 3D renderer does not rely on the GPU at all. OpenGL-based effects like Element 3D will use only a single GPU; multiple GPUs will not further accelerate them.

C4D’s viewport is OpenGL, and its renderer is CPU-based, so extra GPUs won’t increase performance. If you are using the third-party Octane renderer, it should use multiple CUDA GPUs.

Walter Soyka
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[Paul Forcier]

You may get better performance from the GTX series of cards and take a much lighter hit on the wallet.

May have to check the capacity of the power supply in the Mac Pro and the number of power leads as well.

Do a search through the posts…in terms of After Effects me thinks you ll get more bang for the buck with GTX….

I believe another poster or two mentioned the Quadro would be necessary for higher than 10 bit with a proper monitoring solution though…

[Walter Soyka]

[Paul Forcier] “Do a search through the posts…in terms of After Effects me thinks you ll get more bang for the buck with GTX….”

True.

https://www.loopoutcontinue.com/cuda/

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Trevor Schrodt]

Thank you for the responses. We’re updating one of our Mac Pros with a Quadro 4000 in it to the new one whenever it’s released. I figured why let it go to waste if it has some uses. Thanks again

[Paul Forcier]

Hey there, also, as a new Quadro (k4000?) and the old one will have a different compute level, I’m not sure that the new and old card will work together with cuda in the way you my be thinking…

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus