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Update: Resolve on new 2012/13 iMacs
Hello all, I’m pleased to report that we have tested the late 2012 21″ and 27″ iMac 13,2 systems and both are suitable for Resolve 9.0.4.
The specific configs we tested are
21.3″ iMac 13,2 with 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, with 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT650M and Mountain Lion 10.8.2
27″ iMac 13,2 with 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, with 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT680MX and Mountain Lion 10.8.2The systems tested also used the new Fusion drive which offers faster boot times and we used a ThunderBolt drive for image storage and playback.
Note; in both cases we tested the i7 as the CPU is used for ProRes and DNxHD decoding, and both systems had 16GB of RAM. The NVIDIA GeForce GT650M would comfortably play 3 nodes with color correction and some blur at 24fps while decoding HD DNxHD and the NVIDIA GeForce GT680MX 9 nodes.
Clearly the faster GPU is better for image processing so we expect the systems with a GTX 675MX graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory or the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX with 2GB of GDDR5 will offer more nodes of correction in real time. A larger GPU ram is also better to handle higher res images.
We will include these systems in our next configuration guide.
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That’s great Peter.
Do you have any idea how those Macs performed with Resolve compared to a topend HP Z820 setup?
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Depends what you mean by topend. If you mean literally the topend I’ve seen a z820 do about 42 nodes of blur with 4 gpus put the same gpu’s in a macpro and your going to get a similar result.
Resolve in my mind always comes down to the GPU power needed.
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The Z820s have PCIe 3 buses presumably if you can get a PCIe 3 GPU card(s) that will have an impact on throughput?
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Brilliant!
How did it work out with TB video io ?
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Margus
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[Peter Chamberlain] “Note; in both cases we tested the i7 as the CPU is used for ProRes and DNxHD decoding, and both systems had 16GB of RAM. The NVIDIA GeForce GT650M would comfortably play 3 nodes with color correction and some blur at 24fps while decoding HD DNxHD and the NVIDIA GeForce GT680MX 9 nodes.”
Three nodes is what I’d expect from the 650M based on the performance I’ve seen on my rMBP, but 9 nodes on the 680? Wow, that’s not bad. If that holds up while doing Thunderbolt video and disk I/O, the computer in the smaller suite we’re planning now might end up being an iMac.
This kind of performance is especially exciting for what it implies we can expect a year or two down the road, with the GPU performance increases we’ve seen.
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Assuming Apple sticks with nvidia GPUs. (Fingers crossed)
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Yes, these numbers are with thunderbolt video monitoring and disk I/O.
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Thank you!
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That’s what i’ve been waiting for, what thunderbolt storage were you using still “Promise” ones?
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I think this is a good interim solution for me while waiting for the supposed new macpro.
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