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New MacPro, iMacs
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Hi guys, I’m writing this from my hotel – I’m at Siggraph this week. Take this with a grain of salt but at the NVidia station I noticed a Mac Pro running smoke with a little placard on the table announcing it was a Fermi based system (they’re rolling out Fermi Quadros down here). I asked the Nvidia guy and he said that there wasn’t actually a Fermi board in that Mac Pro (it had a Quadro 4800 in it) and that somebody had just placed the card there. When I pressed him about it he finally said that Fermi cards will be avail. on the Mac Pro before too long (I think 6-9 weeks or something)..I don’t believe the drivers are done yet. This would jive with the story the other day about somebody seeing Fermi drivers in an OS patch.
So I do think Fermi boards are on the way – they will be at least double the Cuda performance of the current OS X compatible Nvidia boards. So I would just wait a little – the Fermi Quadros are expensive but with up to 6GB of RAM onboard and a ton of Cuda cores the performace will be through the roof. The 12 cores will certainly help with rendering (I demo’d on a 12 core HP box at the ATI booth this morning showing some 3D stuff) – the extra cores will be great for multi-threaded apps like smoke and AE…as well as all the major 3D apps. So I think we’re in a good place – the 27″ LCD’s are nice as well for a main display (I use a Dreamcolor for reference)
best,
Greg
Greg Leuenberger
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The best thing Apple could do now is to release OS X for any computer running intel. Legal hackintosh…
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I dont quite understand alot of the responses to this annoucement, anyone who realistically thought that Apple would make any major changes in this update hasn’t paid enough attention to the previous MacPro revisions & all the rumours surrounding this one.
Nobody was actually expecting USB3, faster FW protocol or more PCIe slots – which would of meant a complete redesign of the entire system! For those sort of updates you’d hear something solid from Apple as there would probably be new patents, developer updates etc flying around the web
The quad and eight core systems are still essentially the same, so nobody needs to be too worried about qualified system specs at the moment. NVidia will be working on the new GPUs but until then I’m fairly sure the GTX285 and FX4800 will still work fine.
If anything this gives alot of people the opportunity to pick up an ex demo or EOL model, saving a few hundred £ and still getting a system that the software has been designed to run on… 😉
Jamie Allan
Post Production Consultant
DaVinci Specialist (Linux/Mac)
Jamie@Jigsaw24.comJigsaw Systems Ltd. – IT & Broadcast specialists for the UK
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[Arthur Puig] “The best thing Apple could do now is to release OS X for any computer running intel.”
Would it instantly produce better graphics card drivers by some magic?
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No, but at least you’ll get more pci-e slots. Forget installing a rocket card with this config (assuming you have a raid card, which you should)
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Hi guys, regardless of the desire to have new features in the MacPro and the benefits they would offer, Resolve on the currently available and shipping MacPro 4.1 series with dual quad core 2.26GHz CPU’s, 6GB RAM, NVidia CUDA powered GT120 and FX4800 with the DeckLink HD Extreme works for SD, HD and 2K in real time. The new faster CPU’s will provide a little faster r3d decoding but no change in grading performance as we use the CUDA GPU for all grading calculations. iMac is ATI only so no CUDA, thus not applicable for Resolve.
New NVidia cards are being developed all the time so at some stage everyone will gain performance benefits as these new cards are released with more CUDA cores.The current MacPro PCIe buss is fast enough for 2K work so HD and SD is a breeze.
Peter
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Actually lots of people where expecting USB 3, blu ray, and extra pci-e slots, and also a realignment of the product line, the octo taking the place of the quad core for that price and so on, that’s how it used to be before. It’s been like 18 months or so since the last update, doesn’t seem that far fetched to expect a new redesign.
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At times it feels like you are right!
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I can’t find any stores that has the 2009 model in stock. Those I’ve found only has one or two of the single CPU model.. Drives me nuts!
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Also it’s a shame to see all the new Blackmagic USB 3 products getting used only on pc…
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