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Michael Oates
December 31, 2015 at 6:40 pm in reply to: GTX980Ti or Quadro K5000?

Walter and Dave:

thanks os much for thelp. I’ve ordered additional RAM from OWC….will now check out the link Dave referred me to.
I’ll report back once I figure all this out (and get more RAM)…..should be in about a week.

Thanks and Happy New Year!
Michael Oates
December 31, 2015 at 5:11 pm in reply to: GTX980Ti or Quadro K5000?

Thanks Walter…..it sounds like I am partially there. I use SSDs allmost exclusively for this work.

At this point, I need to
1. increase my RAM and
2. look into how to download AE CC 2014 (I imagine I can find it on the Adobe Site.

My only question is whether the additional RAM is really worth it……I rarely top it out, although I do run AVID Media Composer at the same time—-bouncing between that and AE.

Mike
Michael Oates
December 31, 2015 at 4:46 pm in reply to: GTX980Ti or Quadro K5000?

Sorry…here’s the AE info.

I have AE 5.5 installed.
I also have the latest AE CC (2015).
Michael Oates
December 31, 2015 at 4:43 pm in reply to: GTX980Ti or Quadro K5000?

Walter:

I have a MacPro 12 core 3.46GHz (5.1), 32GB RAM, and running 10.10.5
The card is an EVGA 980TI.

With this card, I am using all the PCIE slots.

Any additional addvice?
Michael Oates
December 30, 2015 at 6:32 pm in reply to: GTX980Ti or Quadro K5000?

Any thoughts on a different (better) card that will accelerate AE rendering?
Michael Oates
December 30, 2015 at 5:01 pm in reply to: GTX980Ti or Quadro K5000?

Thanks Dave. I happen to have a version of AE version 5.5 and might try that as well. I did speak to someone at Adobe at a recent show in NYC who claimed that AE Version 6 has this capability.

However, the problem is really more of a driver problem. Apparently the Nvidia Mac Driver for the K5000 Quadro card is the last “real” Mac Cuda Core driver that Nvidia produced….other than for the GTX680.

The K5000 has 1536 cores and is a true rendering card—not a gaming card. The 980TI is really more of a gaming card, and with its 2800+ cores, it could challenge the K5000 is set up properly for rendering work. I believe Nvidia has avoided producing the proper Mac Driver for this new card, other than the Web Driver software they offer for it.

I am hoping some third party figures out a way (develops a driver) to access those cores for rendering purposes on a Mac. We’ll see. Thanks for the tip.