Quadro 4000 and ATI 5770 on a Mac Pro

[Erik Lindahl]

Can Premier Pro CS6 actually use a non-GUI-card for CUDA acceleration?

[Phil Hawes]

No, it can’t.

Only the Quadro 4000 has a CUDA driver.
The ATI card will be used for the displays.

Since I posted this message I’ve been doing some tests which seem to indicate that the Quadro 4000 works better by itself without the ATI card installed.

Does anyone else have this experience?

[Chris Borjis]

The quadro has to be the display card for Premiere to use it.

This is frustrating to those that want to also use it with DaVinci,
which wants the card to NOT be the display.

[Phil Hawes]

Agreed. That is frustrating if you want to use Resolve.
I intend to learn Speedgrade since that apparently will be supported by NVIDIA.

Regarding the combination of ATI graphics cards and NVIDIA graphics
cards on a Mac Pro, I also received the following reply from NVIDIA support:

“The combination of a NVIDIA Quadro card and ATI HD 5770 graphics card would not be compatible as there might be driver conflicts as the drivers for the Quadro card and the ATI card are not unified.”

This might explain the problems I had in Pemiere with both cards installed: no playback and crashing.

[Francois Driessen]

I’ve been running the 5770 and a Q4000 for premiere without hassles…

MacPro 8core Wesmere. 24G ram.
OS 10.7.4
Latest Cuda driver 5.0.24 & Resolve9
Black Mgic DecLink Studio SDI. Latest driver. 9.6.4

Got the 5770 in Slot 1 running 2 displays
Q4000 in slot 2. GPU only.
Then DecLink in 3 and CalDigit eSATA for raid.

What problems are you facing exactly? What codecs are you working with and what’s you sequence codec?

Francois

FireTrigger Inc.
https://firetrigger.com

[Phil Hawes]

I have several Mac Pros where I had both graphics cards installed.
Some of them have the exact configuration you have, same OS, same CUDA driver, minus Resolve and the Black Magic Card.

I’m surprised you can put the Black Magic card in slot 3 since that is a slower x4 PCI slot.

The problems I had were not codec specific. But it started when I was working with a slightly larger than 2K image sequence file on a 1080 24p sequence. So I was asking Premiere to do rotation, image resizing, frame interpolation,and cropping. I had no playback.

With the ATI card removed, my playback problems were solved.

Perhaps it was not the card, perhaps there are other problems on that machine (RAM?) but as a precaution I have removed all ATI cards until I can test this out further.

If you run into any issues please post it on this forum.

Thanks for the response.

[Gerry Curtis]

Hi There,

I am running Premiere 6.01 and Resolve with those 2 cards under the same configuration as Francois, it works fine for me.

Cheers,

Gerry

http://www.digitalkilnstudios.com
http://www.savasanafilm.com

[Cali Pvp]

I’ve been using both ATI 5870 and a Quadro 4800 and have not had any problems.

Model Identifier: MacPro5,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
Memory: 16 GB

[Scott Reynolds]

Nice rig. Where are you getting the additional power from? I thought the 5,1 only had 2 additional power connectors for PCIe cards and the 5870 uses both?

Cheers,
scott

[Cali Pvp]

I was a little concerned when I first installed both cards. Well… very concerned…. But I’m glad I did it. I’ve been running both cards now for more than a year, almost two years without any problems. Knock on wood. As for the power, I bought a power adapter with to connections and ran one to the Quadro card and the other two to the ATi card.