Laptop and 1 GPU performance…

[Jake Blackstone]

I’m getting around 4-5 FPS during the render with Full Premium debayer quality at HD resolution. Not quite 2:1. More like 5:1, but still not too bad. With Red Rocket it’s a different story…

[Margus Voll]

It seems pointless to run on one gpu as it will bog down in some point.

Then the whole realtime advantage goes bad and people will be complaining.
I’d stick to 2 specified gpu’s to get most fun out of the system

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[Sascha Haber]

Hey guys,

I really cant wait anymore to get my hands on this 🙂
So the bummer is I will run it on the iMac…ok…got it.
The question is should I get a MacPro or rather a MacBookPro.
I am still not planing to run a suite , but to educate myself on the system.
Now the question…
Could anyone with a laptop try and plug in a second display , please.
I am thinking of keeping the iMac because of its nice 27″ screen to run the app on.

[Margus Voll]

If you have ati then you are busted.

If you got nvidia in the imac it could work for education.
But still you have to wait to see if it will come live on your system.

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[Gary Taylor]

Hi Jake,

Thanks for the report!

I am a bit confused since the thread discusses both Color and Resolve. Which package gave you the 17 FPS rate with R3D files? Did you try Resolve with your 2008 Mac Pro?

Thanks again,
Gary

[Robbie Carman]

[Sascha Haber] “Could anyone with a laptop try and plug in a second display , please.”

I have a MacBook Pro with a second screen NVIDIA graphics. I installed it on there to test (because I was curious) For feeling out the app it works just fine. Although you’ll be warned about the video card on startup, and obviously performance will suffer since its not a recommended system. You really won’t be able to see what a powerful system Resolve is if you don’t run it on the recommended systems from BM.

On my 2009 Mac Pro with GTX285 and GT120 the app is blazing fast and continues to impress me on a daily and sometimes hourly basis

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[Luke Maslen]

Hi Sascha,

[Sascha Haber] ” will run it on the iMac”

Resolve requires a technology named CUDA which is exclusive to some NVIDIA graphics processors. Unfortunately the 2009 and 2010 models of iMac do not use NVIDIA graphics at all so unfortunately these excellent iMacs can’t be used for Resolve. Hopefully that might change in a future revision to the iMac graphics hardware.

Even if the iMacs did have NVIDIA CUDA graphics support, my guess is that their performance might be similar to a MacBook Pro notebook rather than the fantastic performance that a Mac Pro tower computer offers to Resolve.

[Sascha Haber] “The question is should I get a MacPro or rather a MacBookPro.”

The Mac Pro is vastly preferable for Resolve. It can use a far more powerful GPU for color grading than is provided in the MacBook Pro. The Mac Pro also has extra CPU processing which is very important for dealing with compressed file formats such as ProRes.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design

[Robbie Carman]

[Robbie Carman] “powerful system Resolve is if you don’t run it on the recommended systems from BM. “

oops i meant run it on a recommended system!

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[Jake Blackstone]

Sorry, if I was unclear. I was getting 17 FPS only on 2008 computer. Once it was swapped for 2009 I got real time performance.

[Gary Taylor]

Hi Jake,

Thanks for your response! You really weren’t unclear, I just wanted to be sure.

Before you did the swap did you test any HD footage on your 2008 Mac Pro? I am wondering of the 2008 Mac Pro would work for uncompressed DPX footage, or maybe ProRes 4:4:4.

Thanks again!

Gary