Should i get 2 GPU cards?

[Robert Houllahan]

Forget the 4800 it is a dinosaur, get two GPU’s a GT-120 for the GUI and a NvIdia 4000 card for the Resolve GPU if you are not going to get a Cubix. If you are going to get a Cubix then I would get 2-4 4000’s for Resolve GPU’s

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
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[Mike Jeffs]

I don’t plan on getting a cubix but your saying that i’ll get more horse power out of the 4000, and would i be better off getting two? Also would you suggest not useing the ATI Radeon for the GUI graphics card?

Thanks

Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho

[Robert Houllahan]

If the radeon is a single slot GPU then sure, which I think it is, if you get two 4000’s and use an internal raid in your Mac-Pro and leave the last slot for the Decklink Video I/O that is a system with very good GPU performance.The 4000 has more GPU horsepower than the 4800 and two of them have twice that and everything will fit in the Mac-pro.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

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[Jonathon Lee]

ATI 5770 is double slot… I’m using 5770 + Q4000. It’s OK, but initial installation was a bit of a PIA.

[Robert Houllahan]

I would dump the 5770 and get a single slot GPU for the GUI then, plus 2 x 4000’s for Resolve GPUs.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

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[Margus Voll]

I wonder how you put gui + 2x 4000 in mac pro ?

Two 4000 in 16 slots and gui one in third slot ?

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Margus

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[Sascha Haber]

If you plan to use any other thing than Resolve, you wish you would have kept the the 5770, like I do.
The GT 120 is a 9500, a hopelessly outdated card and its not much fun to have a sluggish UI.
I actually fancy the dual 4000 solution now.
But thats just because I am also using other apps that make use of OpenGL and need the card in the first slot.

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DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

[Robert Houllahan]

I thought the latest Mac-Pro ATI GPUs were single slot, I have not looked. And yes I guess two X16 slots for the 4000’s and 2 X8 slots for the GUI and Decklink….In a current Mac-Pro. I have four X16 slots and three x8 slots so I think Apple is slacking.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

MAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.

[Margus Voll]

Really interesting idea with those 2x 4000.

I would go even further if money and reason left a side.

Have two expanders both on separate 16x lane.
It gives you 8 slots. Have not heard about anyone testing it but in theory should work fine.

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Margus

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[Joseph Mastantuono]

I’m very happy with my flashed GTX285 + gt120 if you’re budget conscious.

The gtx285 actually has more cuda cores, for less money.

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