New NVIDIA driver for Mac OSX Lion 10.7.3

[Colin Travers]

Quick question about the 4000 and 570.

I dont have a cubix but a 12 core with the 120/470 combo.

I have run into my first limitation while trying to render out 5K Epic i get a GPU error – I am told by the BMD team that I would need at least a quadro 4000 with 2GB vram as opposed to the 1280MB my 470 card has. I am grading off r3d obviously but need to render back at full resolution (a mix of 3k & 5k) at ProRes444 or HQ.

I can possibly borrow a friends 4000 tomorrow but first i want to be sure that it will be able to render out 5k ProRes files so as not to waste his time or mine. If it does that is great, BUT my other thinking here is to get a 570 card off ebay or locally here in NY if possible and upgrade my system to Lion in order to use the new drivers from nvidia on the pc version of the 570. I want to be sure I can use the cables my current 470 came with in order to connect properly to my 12-core. Most importantly I want to buy the ‘best / beefiest’ card I can right now for my 12-core non-cubix setup. Please advise.

Is this card below correct even, and if there is a higher / better card someone can recommend please advise as I am willing to upgrade my system to Lion to get a beefy card in there (i.e. 580)? Also, should i swap my 120 for something else or am i fine – i would need a small card like the 120 to fit in my box).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-NVIDIA-GEFORCE-GTX-570-2560MB-320BIT-GDDR5-PCI...

DaVinci 8.2 OSX 10.6.8
MacPro 12-core 5,1 2.66 Ghz
32GB RAM (x4 owc 8gb sticks)
RAID0 8TB
Nvidia GT120/GTX470
BMD Extreme3D
HDlink3D DisplayPort
Dreamcolor/Panny VT25
Tangent Wave / Wacom

Drivers:
Nvidia Cuda 4.1.29
DecklinkExtreme3D 8.6
HDLink3D DisplayPort 3.5.1

[Gabriele Turchi]

is the 590 supported ?

the 590 have quite more RAM than the 580 and if i recall correctly for higher resolution project the ram of the GPU is essential (right?)

so is the 590 supported by this new nvidia driver?

thanks

g

Davinci Resolve Control Surface
MacPro
Cubix desktop 4
2 Red Rockets
GTX470+GTX470+GTX285
24GB RAM
HP Dreamcolor
Panasonic 58PF Plasma

[Juan Salvo]

The card is supported. Resolve shows an error box, and the Mac pro power supply can’t handle the 590.

[Colin Travers]

Where best to purchase the correct 570 or 580 card for a MacPro Lion 12-core system online or locally in NY?

DaVinci 8.2 OSX 10.6.8
MacPro 12-core 5,1 2.66 Ghz
32GB RAM (x4 owc 8gb sticks)
RAID0 8TB
Nvidia GT120/GTX470
BMD Extreme3D
HDlink3D DisplayPort
Dreamcolor/Panny VT25
Tangent Wave / Wacom

Drivers:
Nvidia Cuda 4.1.29
DecklinkExtreme3D 8.6
HDLink3D DisplayPort 3.5.1

[Gabriele Turchi]

but aside for the error box it work properly ?

i am thinking on a cubix ..

g

Davinci Resolve Control Surface
MacPro
Cubix desktop 4
2 Red Rockets
GTX470+GTX470+GTX285
24GB RAM
HP Dreamcolor
Panasonic 58PF Plasma

[Juan Salvo]

Yes other than the error box it does seem to work. It shows up as two seperate gpus and functions as such. Performance for single gpu is on par with 570. But multitask functions like nr kick on the second gpu and perform better. I would recommend the 580 as you get better real world performance. Or better yet wait for 680.

[Juan Salvo]

See my response to your other post. Newegg.

[Jesse Kobayashi]

Has anyone had a chance to test out one of those ASUS MARS II cards with Resolve? Two 580s on one PCI-E slot. 1024 CUDA cores, 3GB RAM, 384 GB/s memory bandwidth? It could free up some slots…or even dual MARS II cards for quad processors using only two slots?

Could be insane.

[Juan Salvo]

There would be power issues with MacPro. This would only work in cubix, where slots aren’t such an issue.

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