Happy to report my mac DaVinci Resolve is up and running!!!!

[Ola Haldor voll]

As Peter Chamerlain mentioned in another thread… You won’t necessary see any gain in performance with the Quadro vs the GTX. You will however be able to push it further with more nodes due to more RAM. The Quadro actually has less CUDA cores than the GTX285.

[Todd Jaspers]

I think we are just going to have to wait for this.

https://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-4000-us.html

When it comes to mac. All the NVIDIA cards for mac on the market are pretty obsolete.

[Gary Taylor]

Yep! And here is hoping that for once the Mac won’t be stuck with the wimpier card. Between Resolve and Smoke being Mac solutions it’s about time the Mac got the top of the line Quadro card.

[Mika Joon]

Hi Robbie

I’m dying to know what difference in performance you find between the two cards, I hope the 285 wins because that’s the one I’ve got.

also, can you see how much RAM is Resolve maxing out at with those node and layer intensive grades.

I’m curious to know how much RAM does Resolve really need, the new Mac Pros come with 6 gigs standard, maybe that’s all I need

thanks and have fun testing

[Ola Haldor voll]

If you have read the configuration PDF, you will need a minimum of 6GB, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

[Mika Joon]

Hi Ola

yes I have read the configuration guide and the right RAM amount configurations needed up to only 24 gigs not 32.

I’m just curious to know how much RAM the system really uses, is there any advantage in having 24 gigs or RAM installed for this application alone, I know for other applications like adobe after effects the more RAM the better for preview.

I would like to max out my new 12 core westmere coming next week with all the RAM I can.

just curious of how much RAM Resolve uses at most.

thanks guys, looking forward to more test results

[Robbie Carman]

[Aless Flores] “I’m dying to know what difference in performance you find between the two cards, I hope the 285 wins because that’s the one I’ve got.”

I switched out cards last night and to be honest I’m getting the same playback performance. It was as darren pointed out because of more RAM I was able to get 1-3 additional nodes with the FX 4800 before playback slowed slightly, but in a real world grading situation I don’t think this is a huge deal. Rarely would I have 10,12… nodes on a shot. Both cards are great. The one thing I’ll try to test today is parallel nodes my test between the cards was all serial nodes. This was 1080p24 ProRes 4×4 I’m on an 8 Core 2.93

And just one other observation. The tracker is truly amazing. in the 30 sec I did what would take me 5min with keyframes and processing in Apple Color – Thats huge!

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[Paul Nordin]

Are you finding any incompatibilities with co-resident software? I’m thinking about FCP suite (I know Color may have two video card issues), and Adobe AE, etc.

Basically, I’m wrestling with trying to keep my 2009 MacPro as a one-machine does it all, or if that is going to be a nightmare and I should invest in an additional MacPro for Davinci.

I know there are workflow issues with a one-machine shop. Just looking at options and budget.

Cheers,
Paul

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[Rohit Gupta]

Hi Aless,

6 GB RAM is sufficient to run Resolve.

The 285 is much faster than the 4800 as this point of time.

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[Illya Laney]

I’m running 2 NVIDIA cards on my 2008 with no FCP or Color issues. I’ve been pushing both cards pretty hard everyday to see what’ll happen and so far there hasn’t been any problems besides the GT 120’s slower performance in FCP/Color. Running Color with UI playback turned off, 3D Color Space display turned off, and monochrome scopes compensates a bit if you’re using the GT 120.

I’m installing a GTX 285 tomorrow then doing some tests with SwitchResX and posting the results next week.

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