Multiple NVIDIa Quadro 4000’s.

[Margus Voll]

I think one would be for GUI and second one for processing.
Always the one with monitors attached is for gui.

Direct speed increase would come from 4800 as computing gpu i’d say.

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[Kris Anderson]

Thanks for the reply.

These cards would be housed in the expansion chassis.

There would still be the ATI card for GUI.

[Margus Voll]

4800 will give you more horsepower any time.

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[Sascha Haber]

Going from one 4000 to two doubles your shader piples/cores .
Stay away from the 4800 if you want a future proof system.
And for the money you pay for the old 4800, you better get TWO extra 4000s 🙂

PS How sweet would it be to mod the Cubix so it pretends to be a Mac card and then load it with Quadro 6000s or just 580s

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[Margus Voll]

Quadro 6000s or just 580s would be lovely.

Lets hope there will be support some time in the future.

I wonder if anyone has went with 2 cubix boxes as mac pro has two 16x lanes.

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[Kris Anderson]

I’m going with just the one box 🙂

Is the additional 4000 card worth the $$$ for the performance it gives?

[Swen Linde]

We are using two 4000´s with pcie extension. The increase of performance is worth it to spent money for a second card.

Swen

[Paul Provost]

well the hope is for thunderbolt to sort this out.
how about a tbolt external pcie chassis or better yet external self contained tbolt gpu modules.
or external tbolt decklinkhd card/tbolt storage (no pci raid card or video card) and just use all those empty pci slots in the mac pro for quadras….

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[Robert Houllahan]

I think Thunderbolt is only a 4X Pcie pipe so considerably slower than a 16X Cubix expander. Probably good enough for a laptop “on set” system but poor for a DI room. There are people out there running 4 GTX480’s for Resolve and that is a hell of a lot of GPU. I have 3x GTX-285’s and it is hard to run out of real time performance.

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[Kris Anderson]

Thanks everyone for your input.

I think I’ll go for the second card. Sounds like it will be well worth it.

My system will be targeted to more budget conscious productions so if I can pack in extra performance for not much extra cost it will definitely be a good thing.