I just received the K5000 a week or two ago, and frankly, I can't tell a lot of difference over the Quadro 4000 it replaced, EXCEPT for a ray-trace Ae project I re-rendered, and it was twice as fast.   

I got this nifty utility called "iStat Menus" that has a GPU meter, and so far, on Ae and Pr, I can't get the thing to go over 40%.  

I was expecting better real-time in Pr, and I sure can't say it's a night and day difference.  I still get dropped frames with a couple of accelerated effects on Alexa ProRes 4444 footage.  And that's with the CPU and GPU meters running below 50%.  I'm perplexed.  It's not my RAID either.  It's super-fast.

I don't play video games, so I haven't much of an idea how much horsepower it has, day to day.  

On Aug 29, 2014, at 4:58 PM, rendernyc <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

i dont think i could ever buy the k5000 as its slow and $$$

the GTX 780M has faster RT performance in my iMac, and comes with a computer ;)

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Jim Curtis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Probably getting work done!

;-)

On Aug 29, 2014, at 4:51 PM, "Mr. Eric D. Kirk" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Where were you when everyone was advising me to buy this. :) ha

On Aug 29, 2014 5:48 PM, "Jim Curtis" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

This is the kind of stuff I avoided by buying the K5000 for my Mac, instead of trying to hack a GTX.

Godspeed, boys.

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