which mac pro?

[Morten]

Wait and see while Adobe optimises its applications. It will show wether to favorize GPU or CPU.

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[Jean-philippe Mariani]

It already has ! 7.2.1 update of Premiere Pro CC has some OpenCL optimization for the Dual GPU of the new Mac Pro. And of course, as with CUDA and NVIDIA cards, OpenCL will be faster with high-end GPUs than CPU multiple cores, so would not consider anything else then the D700 option with 6, 8 or 12 cores, but GPU’s top priority.

As for 4K display, Dell 32″ is as good as the Sharp and quite a bunch cheaper as well.

[Chris Borjis]

We’re definitely getting 4 of those new mac pro’s, but waiting
a year. Mainly since all our newer mac’s perform adequately at this moment.

I would lean more towards the gpu as well, but pretty much
we’re going after the 5-6 thousand range machine.

And I can’t wait to hear about various premiere performance
times with these new macs. Those AMD gpu cards should be blazing fast.

[Kent Beeson]

Thanks for replies – so basically I was thinking the 12 core, 32GB RAM, D700 for sure…so not being technical, the clock speed which is far lower than the 6 core machine, isn’t really a factor at all? It’s the most cores you want for best video editing correct?

[Chris Borjis]

usually more cores has a bigger impact than clock speed in my opinion.

[Alex Gerulaitis]

It depends on many factors but clock speed matters a lot.

In terms of BFTB (bang for the buck, or performance-to-$$ ratio), the 6-core is my current fav for most light and medium duty workloads.

[Steve Connor]

Apart from mentioning that the new update is multi GPU aware, there hasn’t been much from Adobe yet about the new Mac Pros, it would be good to hear something from them about it for those of us who are trying to decide which config to order.

Steve Connor

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