Brian Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 Hey guys, Just wanted to ask you guys what kind of cards you may have popped into your Mac Pros? Now that the EVGA is out with the 680 I'm wondering if that would be better in the EI environment than the NVIDIA Quadro 4000. http://eshop.macsales.com/item/EGVA/02GP43682/ http://eshop.macsales.com/item/PNY/VCQ4000MACPB/ Any thoughts? If you're using one of these cards, do you see a performance difference in EI? Thanks, Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovavfx Posted June 18, 2013 Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 I have the 680 mac edition and its much better spec wise than the 4000. The web site that tests this stuff all the time is barefeats.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Thanks for the reply.....So, do you see a big difference in EI? I know in a game it would be amazing but does EI handle lots of polys and really big textures because of the better card? Just curious if it's worth the money since it's supposed to be a gaming card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 I guess this question should probably be directed towards the egors....... Would an ATI (AMD) card perform better with Electric Image hardware acceleration? Or would an NVIDIA card perform better. I keep seeing that the AMD card might perform better with open GL (which is what I'm assuming EI is using) I'm just trying to get EI to redraw a little bit better with the large textures in shaded mode (for mapping purposes) and handle my large scenes better in wireframe or shaded modes (5-8 million polys and up). Right now the ONLY way I can handle my scenes is by putting it on point cloud and closing all the other windows except my view finder and (only if I have to) one other window for a front, side, top view. Just trying to sort all this out :shy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted June 18, 2013 Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Ola Brian, We use Nvidia and ATI, both have some Pros and Cons, I will post more info soon :) Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 Thanks Tom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovavfx Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Brian... the performance of the card works on a bunch of levels for me... it handles screen performance and open gl great but dont forget CUDA it has a huge amount of CUDA cores which accelerates a ton of things in After Effects which to a huge amount of us animators is a critical tool.... my plug ins and system performance flies. Personally, I hope Open CL which apple is pushing, gets support, because unless it sucks eggs ill be getting a new mac pro later this year and its dual ati cards will force a lot of software makers hands in the GPU game IF apple does not offer a choice of nvidia or ati.... Most of us work on a SYSTEM... not just an APP.... my geforce 8800 card was probably pretty easy to kill performance wise... but im still thrilled for all the OTHER things that now fly... (an ssd as well is helping a ton) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Ola Scott, I'm interested in OSX 10.9 which will provide OpenGL 4.0, it will open more doors to Mac developers ;) Running in the new Mac Pro sounds really cool. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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