new mac pro and OSX

[Andre Van berlo]

Hey Keith,

i’m also very curious how that 6 core performs! I’ve ordered mine also only with the D700’s. how much RAM did you configure?

[Keith Koby]

[Andre van Berlo] “i’m also very curious how that 6 core performs! I’ve ordered mine also only with the D700’s. how much RAM did you configure?
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Andre-
These 6 cores are the base configs with d500 and 16 GB ram and 256 GB storage. That’s one reason why they came so fast (because they were a true base config). I think you’ll be happy with the 6 core d700.

As for performance, I haven’t tested much yet, but from what I’ve seen so far I’m super impressed.

I upgraded one san location from earlier in the year. I intentionally grabbed a project that was giving us fits in probably 10.0.8 at the time. We were using maxed out fusion imacs and probably 10.8.4 at that point. The san location (about 78 GB) converted to a library in about 10 seconds. 10.1 gets really busy doing something afterwards, you can see the render meter going crazy, flashing to 100% very quickly. In the meantime, the application was super responsive. Playback was smooth. Renders (selections) were super fast. So from an unscientific, quick first look, I think people will be pleased with performance on the 6 core d500 base machines.

We also ordered several 8 core machines. Those we are waiting for.

[Oliver Peters] “I’d be curious to hear what sort of work and formats you are doing with this. Although the 8-core keeps getting mentioned as the “sweet spot”, it also has a slower clock rate. For HD output and ProRes, it sounds like your machine might be more than sufficient.”

Once we get the 8 cores, we’ll compare. But I hear you, the 6 core d500, from what I saw yesterday, might be plenty for ProRes 1080 formats (that’s the bulk of our work). Of course if the 8 core clobbers it, then the price difference is worth it for us because of the time savings over the 3 years or so that we typically keep computers in production. Also the 8 core d700s will be worth it if they handle the red files better etc.

[Keith Koby]

I just did an export of an 8:12 timeline with lots of compositing. First I deleted the projects render files and then exported a master clip. 3:51 seconds, so better than 2x realtime to render and write out the file.

Later today I’ll try to get the original project san location open on an imac and do the same test.

[Andre Van berlo]

Thanks for posting Keith!

Nice! Is that 1 camera angle or did you have multiple tracks in 1080p stacked?

February can’t come soon enough!