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NVIDIA GT 120 or Radeon HD 4870 for FCS and CS5
Hi,
Its new Mac Pro time, and I’ve always taken the Radeon 4870 as the no-brainer choice of cards, however, with the whole CUDA acceleration thing going on in CS5, the waters are a touch muddier.
I am 80% FCP.. that’s my bread and butter, however I’d reckon the other 20% are pretty evenly split between Color and AE.
I’m still on course for the Radeon, but I thought I’d see if anyone had anything to say about the value the CUDA would give me if I plumped for the Nvidea.
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Color is way better on the ATI. Unfortunately, Adobe seems to be in the Nvidia camp, so you are going to have to decide which is more important.
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Do you use Color? If so, then ATI. We run all ATI’s in our shop as it works best with Color.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver coming soon.
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I’m interested in following this thread…I’m running nvidia, and dual apple led monitors…and this mini-display port thing has put a kink in things.
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[peter pop] “Its new Mac Pro time”
It seems that Intel finally got 6-core production going, and Apple has reportedly told resellers to minimize inventory of Mac Pro and iMac computers for the moment, and Apple stores show no availability for some current Mac Pro models.
I would wait a week or two at least, you could get USB 3.0 and some other things in addition to the new CPUs.
Also in the mill seem to be new Mac high-performance graphics cards from both ATI and Nvidia.
Normally I wouldn’t bother passing on rumors about unreleased products, but at this time there are multiple independent indications.
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the ATI vs NVIDIA debate is further complicated by the fact that Blackmagic recommend the NVIDIA to use with DaVinci Resolve on the Mac.
I bought the ATI 4870 six months ago for Color but now I have to think long and hard about Resolve and CS5 as possible options. I don’t suppose two different brand graphics cards could be installed on one machine?
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[Michael Gissing] “Blackmagic recommend the NVIDIA to use with DaVinci Resolve on the Mac. “
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No you cannot run two graphics card in one system running FCP Studio. At least for the moment. No clue what Apple will do when they update.
I plan to have a separate machine for Resolve / ProTools when resolve comes out.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver coming soon.
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[walter biscardi] “I plan to have a separate machine for Resolve / ProTools when resolve comes out.”
Under those circumstances, I would opt for Linux to run Resolve, but I don’t need ProTools as I have Fairlight on a separate system. The two cards question was somewhat rhetorical but thanks for the confirmation Walter.
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If all you’re using is FCS and After effects, go with ATI. AE doesn’t use CUDA and is not very picky about graphics card. If you use Premiere however it becomes trickier.
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Jon Bagge
Editor – London, UK
Avid – FCP – After Effects
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