Peter Chamberlain
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I hope you get a chance to see the new system. This post is also valuable to consider.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/277/542
You will see shortly, its a new day.
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Did you notice how much power the 480 consumes? Compare to the 4800!
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The two linux workstations while similar in config are different so at this time they must be on different servers. They also have quite a different setup. Both have installers to optimize operation for the right hardware.
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Please refer to the original post which covers these items.
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I actually have a red and blue version.
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We continue to support GTX285 – and use them ourselves as well as the FX4800
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A great question: The old DaVinci did fall behind in some feature areas while zoomed ahead in many others. (4k GPU based non cache processing and real time stereo were delivered in 2008 for example) But if you haven’t seen a new daVinci for 15 years I suggest you may have missed the few hundred that have been delivered in that time. Avatar was graded on Resolve, as was the Hurt Locker and Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood etc. Many were also installed for TV commercial grading as Resolve as a number of unique and time saving/problem solving features yet to be introduced on other systems.
Enough of the past – to the future; our development team is working on many new features; none of which we will discuss until we release them. But as an example of our commitment, BMD introduced more than 20 new features at NAB as well as porting Resolve to Mac OS. These were not Mac specific features but were applicable for all our Linux and Mac customers.
All we can ask is to judge us on what we deliver, not on the past. Not on others. I believe our team will positively surprise you with every release.
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Much of this is proprietary but I’m sure you can appreciate that each clip has a number of frames in active memory and depending on the frame size this consumes memory to a greater or lesser extent. More nodes and complex grades also consumes more ram. Every CUDA core uses ram so there are clever calculations done to make this all work in real time. That’s the power behind Resolve. We have been working with CUDA for years. We have a Linux config with 16GPUs that has 3840 CUDA cores and 64GB of GPU RAM… that rocks!
Regardless, the GTX285 is EOL and until other options are available for Mac we can only spec the FX4800. -
Hi, please refer to my Resolve on Mac update post. Resolve uses CUDA for all processing and thus Nvidia GPU’s. We also spec the hardware, which does not include Boxx products.
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GTX285 has more CUDA cores than FX4800 but less RAM. It also uses more power, creates more heat etc.
The GTX285 does provide another node or two of HD in realtime but with the Resolve ‘on the fly proxy’ feature i’m not sure this outweighs the benefits of the FX4800.
Unless you have a GTX285 I would be looking closely at the FX4800 even though its a little more $.