Darren Roark
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[Walter Soyka] “This is some serious FUD. Adobe’s support for OpenCL goes back to 2012.”
I didn’t make it up, just sharing info. I was told by someone at AMD this was the case.
I could borrow a page out of politics of late. “There is something going on with Adobe and those AMD GPUs in those trashcans. I don’t know what it is or what Adobe is doing to them but I’d really like to know what’s going on with what Adobe is doing to those GPUs. Something isn’t right!”
Their CUDA performance with certain tasks is still much higher than their OpenCL implementation. This is doubly true in Resolve.
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I was just told this was possibly what happened.
https://techfrag.com/2016/03/11/nvidias-cuda-language-can-now-run-on-amd-intel-gpus/
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[David Roth Weiss] “I’ve never heard of any one person having as many catastrophic hardware failures as you’ve listed above with Apple computers. “
Funny story, the models I had for MacBook Pros:
The late 2006, killed it by using it too much.
The 2006 Mac Pro GPU – recall.
The 2009 Mac Pro GPU – fried, AppleCare took care of it.
The 2011 Thunderbolt model MBP, recall still in effect.
Then I bought the 2012 Retina, you guessed it, recall. This one is still my current portable machine.
I’ve only paid $300 on the flat rate repair in total which was for the 2006 MBP so that’s pretty lucky.
[David Roth Weiss] “if you’ve been considering scaling Everest any time soon, you might want to reconsider.”
Not a chance in hell.
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Strange that the chips in question for the recall were made in spring of 2015.
Every MacBook Pro I’ve had since 2006 the GPU has fried at least once. My two cheese graters both had the GPU die, the trashcan is the only one I haven’t been able to kill. I have been having freezing issues since installing Sierra however.
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The D700s do not have ECC from what I understand, and the Adobe situation may have been from them running a hacked version of CUDA to run on AMD chips.
I’ve melted enough things by taking liberties with settings.
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[Gary Huff] “The thermal design that keeps burning up the graphics cards?”
Using FCP X I’ve transcoded around 400 hours of Red footage with my ‘trashcan’.
No problems.
Must be some 3rd party machinations.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “But not nearly as bizarre as the thought that anyone would actually and voluntarily choose to continue down that same path. Wow. It’s like seeing someone shun an automobile and haughtily climb onto their horse-carriage. ?”
The articles from back in the day saying horseless-carriages are a fad are just as interesting as the mid nineties interviews with editors saying they could work faster on a Kem than an Avid.
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[Kevin Johnson] “my coworkers year old macpro “
What are the specs on it?
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[Michael Gissing] “The tech is already out. No reason to wait.”
There is in the sense that Apple makes their own boards using chips from their vendors. One of the AMD engineers told me at NAB “We give Apple the GPU chips, and then we find out what they get used for the same way the general public does.”
Is TB3 officially released yet?
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[Kevin Johnson] “Maybe they are waiting on intel/chipsets/TB3 latest hardware to come out?”
That would be my guess. The eGPU tests with TB2 and Sierra have been pretty impressive despite the slower I/O so I’m hopeful.