Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #46812
From: Carey Dissmore <carey@imugonline.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] [OT] first impressions of late 2012 mac mini
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:49:22 -0600
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Cc: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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For CPU bound tasks that tolerate network rendering(like heavy 3d rendering), the multiple mini approach is attractive. For gpu tasks, or things that are more I/O intensive such as simpler ae rendering, color grading or video editing w/ effects, it is less so.

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On Nov 30, 2012, at 6:23 PM, Tony Romain <tonyr-aelist@trancedesigns.com> wrote:

Thanks for the update Teddy!  Keep us updated as you start putting it through its paces as a render machine…  will be curious to see how it holds up under long term unattended encoding/renders.  Does it crap out under sustained usage over time, or hold up…?


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From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com>
Reply-To: AE list <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date: Friday, November 30, 2012 4:16 PM
To: AE list <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: [AE] [OT] first impressions of late 2012 mac mini

Finally broke down and bought a new mac mini to help do some prores encoding. the specs are 1TB hdd, 2.3 ghz quad core i7, 16 GB RAM, thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and FW 800. 

Cinebench 11.5 CPU score was 6.5. That is awesome. My i7 2010 MBP gets 2.3, and the new $4000 (fully loaded) iMac tops out around 6.8. Even better I got it for under $900 brand new on ebay. My overclocked, six core 3930K PC running at 4.7 ghz with 32 GB RAM scores around 13 on max cpu speed, so it would theoretically take less than three of these mac minis to equal the workstation CPU output. And a good deal more efficiently, I think (considering I have much more demanding graphics in the workstation than the mini). I can see just six minis being a SERIOUS upgrade to render power in AE / Cinema 4D / Maya / Realflow. Not to mention their extremely small physical footprint. A personal supercomputer of sorts. I'd be interested in comparing price / performance to that 32core opteron rig someone is building. 


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