[Kevin Cannon]

Hi Omar,

Do you mean you aren’t able to pull up the on-disk audio window? I spent an embarrassing amount of time on that as well- in v8 you right click on the background of the conform timeline, in v9 you right click on the timeline name at the top right…

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[Kevin Cannon]

Hi Chris,

I only installed 10.8 and new CUDA drivers, nothing additional from NVidia. I think the real crucial parts are in 10.8.

KC

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[Kevin Cannon]

Hi Juan,

I’m running the EVGA 4GB “FTW” edition, which is not as over-clocked as the “classified” version but I believe has a higher clock speed than the reference card.

Some of the comparisons on the chart are not using v9, because I grabbed them from people’s posts on 8.2.x. They were using the 580 “classified” version for those tests. I don’t have any 580s to test, these are the ones from the chart I did in v9:

285×3
680×3
680×2
680×1

and all the 4K resolution stuff. But if people have v9 580 candle tests, it would be interesting to compare, especially at 4K where the differences are more visible.

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[Kevin Cannon]

Hi Matthew,

I just tested some 680s in Mountain Lion and put the results compared against 580s over in this thread.

I didn’t have too much trouble with getting the 680s to work in OSX, but I haven’t tried to use them for anything but Resolve, with no displays attached.

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[Kevin Cannon]

Thanks, got the 680 4GB versions powered by the Cubix. Price was close between 580s and 680s and I think the 680s are a better long-term prospect. Will continue to use the 1920×1080 displays for now…

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[Kevin Cannon]

Thanks for the update Eric!

Since 680s for Mac kind of went official today, that’s one step forward on the PCI 3.0 roadmap… If we can update the Desktop 4 eventually, that will be the next step. Probably would to that right before I have a PCI 3.0 machine to put it in… Whether that’s the 2013 Mac Pro or a Windows machine.

Cheers,

KC

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[Kevin Cannon]

Hi Paul,

Which trim of the 680 4GB did you order?

Hi Rohit,

Is there any recommendation about specific trims of the 680, or should all manufacturer and clock speed combinations work?

Cheers,

KC

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[Kevin Cannon]

That’s what I’m doing right now, mostly because I want to work with 4K grading and monitoring on a Mac Pro as soon as possible, and I think having 4GB of RAM and PCI 3.0 is the smarter long-term investment. So if the cards have similar CUDA performance to the 580 and are supported by BM, I will opt for them in the Cubix for GPU processing.

But possible that they will have only the same (or worse) CUDA performance than the 580. Here’s the best info I have seen so far about benchmarking the CUDA performance (on a PC):

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/277/17967

But I’m hoping BM will advise, when Mountain Lion is released or perhaps earlier.

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[Kevin Cannon]

Hi Toby,

If you have a few weeks that you can wait, the GTX680 drivers will be released with 10.8 and 10.7.5… it might become the best card that can be powered with the six-pin power cables in the Mac Pro… or it could be buggy and useless, but that should be apparent soon enough…

Rohit said in another thread that their tests with the 680 in a PC were promising. I’m holding on to see how it works and what BM says before rearranging cards.

Cheers,

KC

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[Kevin Cannon]

I was having this problem which seemed pretty random, but eventually i realized for me it was happening only when in “Unmix” mode in 8.1 or 8.2. I don’t remember the exact release but it was solved in a subsequent one.

KC

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