Premiere Underpowered …?

[Jason Jones]

Davinci Resolve requires BOTH a graphics card and a dedicated CUDA card, as far asI can tell:

“When using an NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac, as the GPU, install the GPU card in slot 2 and the GUI card in slot 1. The GUI card can be: an ATI Radeon HD 5770, an NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 for Mac or an NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac.”

While I’m not using an HD5770, T120, or a 4000 for GUI, a number of users have reported getting good results with the 8800. I think.

I do note that Davinci also states that the latest driver for CUDA may not be appropriate, and that at present, only 10.6.7 and CUDA 3.2.17 are approved. So that may be something to look into. And I will.

Thanks for the input!

[Joseph Mastantuono]

Using GPU Acceleration with an ancient card like the 8800 might be the issue.

What I would do in your situation, if you already have the Quadro 4000, is pickup the modded GTX 470 from ebay, and replace your 8800 and use the Quadro to drive your display.

You’ll get a huge perfomance boost in both premiere and Davinci.

The GTX 470 is about 2x as powerful as the Q4000 for less half the cost.

Why Apple isn’t supporting higher graphics cards is one of the reasons I’m moving to premiere myself, to prepare for an eventual (potential) switch to windows.

Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting

[Jason Jones]

Yeah, I was wondering about that! It IS an old card, and seemed counter-intuitive.

But Windows?? Dude, don’t do anything scary or rash. There’s so much to live for! It’s always a new day! Call us before you do ….

I’ll check out the modded GTX 470 – no issues with this modded card from anybody?

Cheers!

J

[Jason Jones]

How do you specify the particular modification? There are a ton of GTX470’s listed, but it’s not clear to me exactly which mod is appropriate.

Thanks again!

J

[Jason Jones]

Can anybody tell me the precise modification I’m looking for in a “modded GTX470” card?

Thanks!

J

[Joseph Mastantuono]

I bought the modded GTX 285 from the MacVidCards guys off of eBay, and have been happy, but I don’t have personal experience with the 470. The modification you’re looking for, is the ones modded for OSX.

I have heard positive things about it on the DaVinci boards.

But Windows seems really attractive though, Especially if i’m moving to the Adobe platform. I’ve got a windows 7 machine at home that actually crashes less than my mac pro, but it’s not my main machine.

Let’s see, Cheaper, Better Adobe performance, More Powerful graphic card support, makes it a hard argument to keep working on Apple.

That and the fact that I saw more kernel panics in lion in one week than blue screens in windows 7 in a year, makes me start to seriously look at other options.

Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting

[Tom Daigon]

One of the biggest drawbacks prevents me to switch (besides the $ needed to by a beefy PC)is ALL THE DARN MAC SOFTWARE . Cross-grading would be a costly PITA 😀

Tom Daigon
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