Switching from ATI 3870 to Nvidea Quadro 4000 (Mac)?

[Todd Kopriva]

It’s working fine for us after the updates mentioned here.

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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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[Tom Daigon]

Thank you Todd. Man,you are dedicated. Helping folks out while you’re on vacations (you did say Adobe was off this week, right). 🙂

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / FCP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Tom Daigon]

One more question, Todd. Bare Feats did some benchmark tests and got great results using the Nvidea Quadro 4000 as a slave card. They described this setup as using the ATI Radeon card hooked up to display and the Nvidea Quadro 4000 occupying another PCIE slot, not hooked up for display. Just number crunching.

https://www.barefeats.com/wst10g9.html

The results were amazing. Are you familiar with this concept and can you refer me to any info that can elaborate on this type of setup? (I have a early 2008 Mac Pro with 8 gigs and a ATI Radeon 3870 card.)

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / FCP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Todd Kopriva]

I have no direct experience with the configuration that you describe.

> Man,you are dedicated. Helping folks out while you’re on vacations (you did say Adobe was off this week, right). 🙂

Technical support staff don’t tend to get the standard vacations. 🙁

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Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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[Jeff Bernstein]

The improved results were specific to Resolve. There was no difference between the Nvidia 4000 and Nvidia 4000 as a slave.

[Tim Kolb]

The first recommendation I’d have is to double your RAM…at least, for CS5/5.5. You’ll benefit from that a LOT.

Second, Premiere Pro looks for the “first” display card in the system for CUDA support. I suspect if the Q4000 isn’t what the system sees as “primary”, PPro won’t find it. Keep in mind that part of the advantage to CUDA isn’t JUST the fact that the display card helps crunch the numbers…it’s that the frame is now on the display card and it moves to the display…a very short hop.

If you could utilize a Quadro card as you say (not in line with your displays), you’d be shipping rendered frames back through your system to get it to the display through your ATI card (if that were even possible). You would certainly hobble the efficiency of that process.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Christopher Hicken]

I have the Quadro 4000 mac and as I just purchased the 12 core, I now also have the ATI HD5770. I am powering 2 x Apple 27″ monitors off of the Quadro right now. (I am a premiere Pro 5.5 user). So what you are saying is that I am better off with just the Quadro, as opposed to having the Quadro for GPU duties and the for ATI powering the Displays?