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03-22-2012, 05:45 PM
I have an NVidia gtx 580 in my 2010 mac pro running the latest version of lion. I can speak from experience in how awesome it is to playback 4k footage in realtime in premiere pro cs 5.5. Also, I switched over to premiere pro for editing a 2 hour show every week. I haven't comepletely ditched fcp yet, but I'm getting there. :)
-josh
03-23-2012, 11:38 AM
Jeff, I know that we have discussed this somewhat before, but would it be possible for me to install a Quadro 6000 in my MAC PRO, and utilize the 6GB of RAM and the CUDA cores for Premiere as well? I really want your answer to be yes I have a secret formula that will work, HAHAHAHA! But I'll take whatever, lol
03-23-2012, 12:58 PM
Quadro 6000 won't work inside the tower, you would have to put it into a PCI expander. Or at least I'm pretty sure that's the situation. Also not sure about driver support for the 6000 on the Mac. IMO, save the money and go with the GTX580, it screams. If you think you still need more (and the law of diminishing returns kicks in here pretty quickly) you can add a second one or choose the GTX590 instead. The benefits to running the Quadro cards is not raw performance, they offer higher precision for OpenGL performance and specific functions, gunlock support and a few other bells and whistles that are not going to do anything for you on OSX at this time, especially if it's a secondary card being used to augment CUDA.
03-23-2012, 02:06 PM
I saw some guy on ebay is selling hacked 6000's to work in mac pros, someone mentioned it in another thread...some where....i am on set, don't have time to find a link...
personally i am weary of hacked stuff, whether its hackentosh or hacking a pc only card into a mac, you have no support from apple/nvidia by hacking so personally i wouldn't risk it...however some obviously do...
03-23-2012, 02:27 PM
Yeah I have been reading about others hacking their command script, and soldering something or rather, to use the higher end cards. Not sure I'm ready to fudge up my investment at this particular moment. Jeff, I think that I may go with your recommendations however on the dual GTX580's. You are talking about the 3GB cards arent you? Also I have a cubix expansion bay coming my way sometime in the next month, can I put them inside of that along with 2 more rockets?
03-23-2012, 05:40 PM
Which Cubix are you getting? Two GTX580s and two Rockets would probably overload that PCI slot anyway. There comes a point where you may do better to build more computers than trying to stuff all this crap into one. Your drives, CPUs, memory, etc.. can only handle so much and work so fast. Keep in mind the GTX580s are double-width cards and each take two PCIe 2x8 power connectors. The standard Cubix GPU-XPander boxes will only hold two of the GTX580 and nothing else as they are only sold with two double-width slots or 4 single-width slots.Originally Posted by Jon Jones
03-23-2012, 06:35 PM
Hmmm, I have an idear, what if I put another MAC PRO in my bigfoot cart and connected them through the 32TB Raid array? Then I can split up jobs between the two, and is there a way to share the red rockets between units?
03-23-2012, 08:50 PM
Hmmm... What are you trying to accomplish? Is it faster transcodes? Or what specifically? You can connect both systems to the same 32TB RAID, given the proper connecting hardware. Basically you have to set up a small SAN.
No way to share the Rocket cards between the two, but depending what what you are trying to make happen, you may or may not do better to have them in one box. Actually that's not really true about the sharing, you can use the command-line renderer (REDLINE) and interface it with a network render manager software like ButterflyNet, Chalice, etc.. So you can help automate splitting transcodes or renders across multiple systems and each will use whatever Rockets installed for the task presented to them. Honestly though, that's really a pain unless you have a ton of systems in a render farm. For 2 or 3, you're probably best off to just come up with a system where you divide up your transcode queues and dump them to the same storage volume.
The biggest thing to keep in mind here is that no matter how much hardware you try to pack into a system or how much money you throw at this, there is only so fast you can make it all work. The more exotic or elaborate you try to be with your hardware configurations, the greater the risk of things not working as they should. ...And also more work and $$$ involved to fix things when something breaks.
03-24-2012, 08:25 AM
Ahhh, yes well your knowledge on these subjects is dizzying, I just woke up man, settle down, lol. No but for real, I understand what you are saying. Point taken. I will just start with dual 580's, I'll put one in the cubix bay, and one in the tower, and then see where I am at.
03-24-2012, 09:40 AM
Hi,
I see a few folks talking about a GTX 580 in a Mac Pro tower in this thread. Is that even viable given the power requirements or are you guys adding an additional power supply?
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