Lance Bachelder
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I would get a faster hard drive – Firewire 800 is your bottleneck. Since you’re on a Mac I would use Pro Res or Avid DNxHD.
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Hadn’t seen that yet – thanks! Support for dual GPU’s – so I’m guessing FCPX will run better than on my iMac lol…
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You could always put a top of the line ATI fire card in your Hackintosh and take advantage of whatever Apple tweaks in FCPX. I’ve been unsuccessful in getting a stable Hackintosh so I opted for the uber iMac which I’m very happy with – but the new Mac Pro looks too good to pass up.
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I upgraded my 2.1 to a 5770 which is the only thing I can put in there to run FCPX. But that doesn’t mean I’m bummed out by the built-in GPU’s in the new Mac Pro. I don’t think we’ll be cutting anything beyond 4K for decades so to buy a machine that can drive 3 4K monitors seems pretty adequate for some time.
I this new machine is really unprecedented – I mean we’re talking extremely powerful graphics that are utilizing PCIe 3.0 – there’s nothing on the market to even test against it. I suppose you could build a custom PC with dual K6000’s in it – that should give you an idea of what this new beast should play like.
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Yeah great review from Grant – glad he said what he did even though I’m sure he’s under heavy NDA. Hopefully we’ll get more in depth info well before the launch since they’ve given us this very un-Apple-like “sneek peek”.
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Exactly – the specs we have on the new GPU’s look way faster than anything currently shipping from nVidia or even ATI and you get TWO OF THEM! Overkill for most folks – but i look forward to using them – daily 🙂
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True but this assumes we all need multiple external devices. I already use external AJA and BMD devices and of course storage is external. In an effort to de-clutter my workspace I also eliminated audio I/O and never used mixing board. I’ll never use/want/need a Red Rocket so no need for PCI expansion box which would be the only add’l external device I can think of. But you’re right, folks relying on Kona cards or add’l Quadro cards will have to switch though many Resolve users already use some sort of expansion chassis…
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What expansion do you need? The graphics are far more powerful than just about anything on the market today and SIX Thunderbolt 2 ports will eliminate any bottleneck one might have – you can put a RedRocket on one, a RAID on another and I/O on another with massive bandwidth to each device. AJA and BMD both make Thunderbolt I/O today and you know they’re gonna have 4K I/O soon. Heck you can run a 4K client monitor via the HDMI 1.4 port on the Mac Pro so no I/O needed?
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I think 2 6GB GPU’s with over 4,000 cores rivals an overpriced Tesla system?
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It’s been the opposite with my iMac – I don’t even use the AC anymore. My old Mac Pro was a space heater, I was spending hundreds per month on AC! And my new Thunderbolt external storage is quieter and cooler than my old racked raid and internal storage.
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