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| Had a Quadro 4000 in a 5,1. Thought it was pretty good. Traded up to a 570 in the 5,1, moved the Quadro to a 3,1 "secondary" machine. Huge improvement. Traded up to a 780 in the 5,1 and moved the 570 to the 3,1; "retired" the Quadro 4000 to on-the-shelf-emergency-backup-just-in-case statues. Switched both machines to SSD boot drives. Gigantic improvement. Wish I could sell the 4000 for half of what I paid for it. Robert W. Walker Los Angeles CA USA > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [AE] What's the state of Ae on new MacPros? > From: "rendernyc" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> > Date: Wed, August 13, 2014 10:42 pm > To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> > > > The quadro 4000 is a very weak CUDA card... its misleading due to naming > and marketing. > > i sold mine a while back and bought a GTX570 2.5GB card and see a > performance increase of 2-3X > > i would check out a card like a 770 or 780 perhaps... something like that > and the CUDA performance will receive a huge boost > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Jim Curtis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> > wrote: > > > Hey Steve, > > > > Didn't you used to have a Quadro 4000 in your MacPro3,1?. > > > > That's what I have now, and I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to upgrade. > > Other than the CUDA card, our systems are pretty similar, and I > > > > I get a variety of source footage… a lot of MP4 variants, and lately 2K > > ProRes4444 from an Alexa. My system can't play that unprocessed in > > real-time at Full quality. That's curious, because I can play 4 streams of > > 1080 ProRes 422 easily. CUDA seems to make a big difference in playback of > > the PR4444. WIth it off, my CPU meters max out; with it on, they go down > > around 50%. > > > > Being able to play at least one stream scaled to 1080 with some > > accelerated color effects at full res without dropping frames would be nice. > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Steve Oakley <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote: > > > > my 2008 mac tower, K5000, SSD system drive, 3X3TB raid eats thru 1080 > > editing all day long with good responsiveness. I’m talking 8-10 layers in > > PP with 1-2 video layers where one is often some h.264 format, 1 ProRes, > > maybe one ProRes 4444 + alpha, static graphics, lumetri from speed grade. > > where this system probably suffers is decoding the h.264 formats where 2-3 > > layers will get boggish a bit. > > > > OTH I am finishing a shot in 4K GH4 edited in 1080 on my imac i7 and its > > gone well. since its a 2.93gh / much faster ram bus machine it decodes > > h.264 a lot more smoothly than the 2008 machine. > > > > so a used 5.1 tower should be a consideration if you want the PCIe slots, > > and a loaded 27” iMac with nV GPU could be a really nice compact machine. > > I’m somewhat waiting for an update iMac with 6core i7. > > > > S > > > > > > On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Tony Romain <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote: > > > > This is exactly what I've been hearing as well. Unless the software is > > written from the ground up to take advantage of the updated hardware > > specs/architecture on the new mac pros, the speed boost is negligible.. > > Especially for the price. > > > > Would def just spend your money upgrading video cards, ram, DEFINITELY > > replace your system drive with an SSD as well as get an additional SSD for > > use as a AE disk cache… they are super cheap these days > > > > Can't stress enough how awesome the switch to an SSD system drive was… > > > > > > > > > > > -- > danny princz > > vimeo.com/rendernyc |
