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gtx 470
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I’was told that those cards are usable in mac pro only after some system tweaking using “injector” like in hackintosh. That way you create very expensive hackintosh without extra PCI slots you could have with cheap gigabyte motherboard.
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Gtx480 under mac only used 240 cuda cores (gtx470 224cuda cores) why spend more with 590?. Do you know if there are drivers for 590 or 580 for sure?
Saludos
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Building a Asus P6T7 Supercomputer based Resolve system is not necessarily about saving money it is about having the choices available with workstation class PC hardware which is largely superior to the currently available Mac-Pro. That Asus board is $400.00 at newegg before you put on a CPU and Ram. Add a 1200W power supply and a liquid cooling system and you have spent some real money.
I think the limitation with the number of Cuda cores used is entirely a OSX limitation, so adding 4 GTX480 or 580 cards will only increase the performance based on about 1/2 of the cores in each card due to poor GFX implementation in OSX. That said more higher performance cores does equal more overall performance.
Maybe someday Apple will start to care about their workstation class machines again I feel that they are woefully backwards right now though.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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[Robert Houllahan] ” I have 3 GTX285’s in mine and have yet to run out of GPU.”
Have you been able to achieve real time debayering of R3D footage with the GTX’s and no RedRocket? -
GTX cards do no debayering, no Sir, sorry Sir.
But honestly, I rather spend the time and either do Proxies from RED or go the DPX 16 route.
grading with a rocket is no fun, it just takes to long to navigate.
Dailies are another topic of course.A slice of color…
DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
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Afaik, debayering has nothing to do with the GPU. That’s handled on the CPU – thus – you won’t get better debayering performance with more GPUs.
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Which injector are you using with your card?
I tried putting a GTX285 in one of my 2011 Mac Pro’s with 10.6.7, along with the netkas enabler and it never worked. (kernel is in 64 bit mode.)Are you using a different one?
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So does that mean, effectively for a single card solution, this quite useless ?
Can or will OSX or Resolve use only the 200something Cuda pipes ?
Because then the Q4000 is probably the better and safer solution.
I was hoping for double performance with 400somethingA slice of color…
DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE -
In macpro I use Mac GTX 285 – it doesn’t need any injectors, I wouldn’t put anything else inside mac because GTX 480 consumes to much power to have it in MacPro. For hackintosh it’s OK – You can put bigger power suuply inside.
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It’s better to send it for reflashing – threre are guys who resolder ROM chip and flash it with mac stuff (the half of the ROM is taken with grey apple image for start up – hehe). In Moscow reflashing cost me 80$. Maybe the guys who sell reflashed 285 cards at ebay could possibly flash your gtx, ask them. Or send it over to Moscow )))
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