How will the new MacPro compare with a topped out 2012 27″ iMac

[Geoff Addis]

I just wonder if the move to optimise FCPX for the new MacPro will mean, by virtue of the change to Open CL, that the nvidia CUDA performance boost presently provided in the current iMac will be lost.

Geoff

[James Cude]

A graphics card cannot be both OpenCL and CUDA but an app can support both, so that’s more a developer concern than a hardware one.

[Charlie Austin]

[Steve Connor] “and I’m just endlessly astonished at the way some people insult other professionals who choose to use different kit to them.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Bernard Newnham]

[James Cude] “Doing your own tech support with a Hackintosh sounds like a lot of time wasting for a would-be pro though.”

Can’t say I’ve ever needed tech support for the two Hackintoshes that I’ve run.

I’m not a would-be pro, though I am mostly retired now from 40 odd years of making tv. I still produce shoot and edit some stuff.

And I try never to insult anyone for their different choices to me – you play with your toys and I’ll play with mine. I reserve the right to make my case here for my choice.

Though thinking about it, if I was still employing London based editors, I might choose not to use some of them.

Bernie

[James Cude]

Pretty sure it all comes down to this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjgtLSHhTPg

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[Steve Connor]

[Charlie Austin] “[Steve Connor] “and I’m just endlessly astonished at the way some people insult other professionals who choose to use different kit to them.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority“

Nice!

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Craig Seeman]

[James Cude] “In FCPX’s case where pretty much everything real-time preview related is accomplished directly on the GPU, going from 2GB max GPU VRAM to 2 x 3GB in parallel should make a dramatic difference in your daily editing experience”

I keep thinking of playing back 4K HEVC codec recording from the future GoPro4 on 16 camera multicam shoots.

[Mark Dobson]

[Daniel Frome] “For day-to-day editing the mac pro won’t feel much faster than your iMac. When it comes time to render an H264, or convert between formats in compressor, that’s when the machine will operate much faster.”

I’m working with Canon C Log files and so everything that hits the timeline is going to get processed and will need rendering and I’m keen to see rendered playback all the time so any improvement in render time will speed up my workflow . . . thats before I slow it down by visiting this forum

[Steve Connor]

[Mark Dobson] “[Daniel Frome] “For day-to-day editing the mac pro won’t feel much faster than your iMac. When it comes time to render an H264, or convert between formats in compressor, that’s when the machine will operate much faster.””

https://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/11/macbook-airs-pcie-based-flash-storage-approaches-800-mbs-read-and-write/

For day to day operation it’s going to feel MUCH faster than an iMac

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Geoff Addis]

But will Apple support both CUDA and OpenCL? They might drop CUDA support in an attempt to sell more of their new incarnation.