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The new Mac Pro VS MSI?
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[Tom Sefton] “If you have thunderbolt 3 and an egpu it might do”
I think the Titan might hit a bottleneck with Thunderbolt 3 but maybe not. If the Titian doesn’t hit a bottleneck the Volta GPUs probably will. There is a reason to have PCIE slots. I imagine Canon Lake or Ice Lake will offer PCIE 4.0.
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[Bernard Newnham] “I see that Nvidia have announced a new consumer GPU, the Titan V at $2999 . That should satisfy the “only the fastest and most expensive will do” crowd. Though not if they have a Mac
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/8/16750326/nvidia-titan-v-announced-specs-...
Bernie”
3D/motion graphics artists are jumping to Windows exactly for developments like this. With the rise of the relatively inexpensive GPU renderers (Octane, Redshift, etc), it’s just foolish not to want this kind of performance at this price point. I image folks running Resolve are making similar decisions.
Shawn
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[Shawn Miller] “3D/motion graphics artists are jumping to Windows exactly for developments like this.”
Those artists – speaking of 3D animators, mainly – have historically always been on Windows and not Mac. And SGI is years past.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] “[Shawn Miller] “3D/motion graphics artists are jumping to Windows exactly for developments like this.”
Those artists – speaking of 3D animators, mainly – have historically always been on Windows and not Mac. And SGI is years past.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com”
That was more or less true up until about a decade ago – but with the popularity of cross-platform applications like Cinema 4D, Modo, Maya, Z-brush, etc. the landscape became a lot more diverse… maybe 80% Mac/Windows and 20% Linux (from my observation at least). There seems to have been a fairly steady migration of Mac users to Windows for the past five or six years though, mostly due to Apple’s reluctance to update the Mac Pro to something appropriate for CPU hungry tasks like lighting, rendering, simulations and large scene reconstructions. More recently, the popularity of GPU based renderers (Octane, Redshift, etc.) have been enticing artists towards really powerful but inexpensive graphics cards from Nvidia… or, at least that what I’ve personally observed.
Shawn
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[Bob Zelin] “I think that the bottom line here, is that NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON on this forum (even Robin) will pay $17,000 for an Apple computer in 2017. Period. “
Fortunately, Apple is not asking anyone to do so. ☺
The top configuration 18 core/128 GB/Vega 64 w 16GB/4TB NVMe drive is $14,000, with the single most expensive part being the 4TB NVMe upgrade at $2,800. The GPU upgrade is only $600.
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The good news is there is UK local tech support for BOXX products.
BOXX solutions are enjoyed all over the world through a network of resellers who provide the local support. In the UK, Centerprise is the reseller you could buy the BOXX products from and then they would provide the support you may need.
Centerprise
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Hi Byron –
this is not good news. Everyone in the UK uses FCP X, and Boxx (running Win 10 or Linux) cannot run FCP X.
And there is more bad news. Your children are using FCP X, your wife, and your family are using FCP X, and because
you are selling Boxx in the UK, you will be unemployed soon, and living in a homeless shelter. You can ask Robin Kurz and Bill Davis for donations for food.And back to the real world, companies like MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte (and even HP and Dell) are charging much less than Boxx, so unless you have a specialty render farm that you are building for Cinema 4D or Adobe After Effects, I am not sure exactly what the point of your post is . However if you would like to tell us about the new A class Ryzen processor Boxx systems – well, I am all ears.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com
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