Based, but different IDs.
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2016 nMP
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Why would Apple then put a Firepro in the nMP line when it is just an underperforming Radeon inside a machine that's got no room to be upgraded anymore?
The only real difference between firepros and Radeon is ECC ram support, it's like Xeon and core i7 even nVidias only difference between its quadro and it's Titan series it's just ecc support. GpuID is more a mater for driver compatibility than actual GPU model id.
Even if the case Apple instead put AMD but instead nVidia on the nMP and without ecc on the gpu sure they should id electronically as a Titan gpu instead a Quadro.
Because anyway it would sell as cakes.
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Being able to upgrade the graphics card like we used to would solve a lot of glaring problems...
Not only that but many Nvidia GeForce cards have drivers tricked into thinking they are Quattro cards. Not something that is only specific to AMD graphics.
If I remember that one correctly it was actually that you could flash Quadro firmware onto your GeForce. I believe people did it to unlock the power limiter
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This thread should be re-named "Waiting for Broadwell-EP Mac Pro" ....
Just saying lol lol lol
Just saying lol lol lol
...but then you'd get wise-crackers asking "when's it going to be renamed 'waiting for Skylake-EP'" !
Nevermind, the next iteration for this thread should be "Waiting for Zen Mac Pro...", in my heart I'm waiting for either Power8 Mac Pro or Itanium Mac Pro (on 8 nm process)... And a Mix of Altera FPGA OR an MIC accelerator based on ARM and AMD Navi GPU just to keep nVidia fans crying for CUDA....but then you'd get wise-crackers asking "when's it going to be renamed 'waiting for Skylake-EP'" !
Right on. I bought a dozen Opteron servers because the AMD version of the "Reality Distortion Field" was strong. Sent them to eWaste years ago without ever seriously using them.
I think Apple is just waiting for Intel to ship Union Bay Xeons before updating the MacPro. By that time they will also redesign the case, which will look like this:
It will be the best Mac they have ever made, trust me. Remember where you heard it first!
It will be the best Mac they have ever made, trust me. Remember where you heard it first!
Only the levitating sphere. The base unit (PSU) is obviously made from recycled cMP's, but you knew that.
I think Apple is just waiting for Intel to ship Union Bay Xeons before updating the MacPro. By that time they will also redesign the case, which will look like this:
It will be the best Mac they have ever made, trust me. Remember where you heard it first!
it's the OoGhiJ MIQtxxXA.
I dont care so much about a vendor lock with there videocards. You know what i do care? I do care that my video renders two times faster, i do care when i can see live my effects i drop on a video before i push them to a render, i do care that my filters in Photoshop are almost realtime rendered when i drop them on a layer, i do care that my system is blazing fast. I know, you can argue about OpenCL etc.. All i know, is that my tools are asking for CUDA and openCL and that AMD is not providing this off course. That the old majority of the Mac users where creative content makers, should Apple think to at-least give you a choice. But that would be a change in the arrogant road map of Apple off-course. And i wont see that happen in the next bilion years! So, thats why i have to move, and many others all-ready did.
If you want a nice looking machine, go for a imac. If you are a FCX user, you're fine with a mac pro. If you are more power demanding with Cuda hungry tools (a lot of content creating tools), you have to think about to switch or swallow Apple and pay the premium platinum price for average. But, you have a nice shiny round computer. And.. like is said before... thats cool too!
Some people want Apple to give you a choice, but seem to be fine when third party apps don't. The question should be why does Adobe not provide better support for AMD cards. Or are they simply too arrogant to provide the same support for the two major graphic card companies?
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I don't know, but was CUDA ever a viable proposition on OSX?
There seems to be a lot of moaning about its absence on this here subforum, but if it never really was available for OSX anyway, how can you chalk that one up to the nMP?
You don't have to like the nMP, but citing inability to run CUDA as one of its shortcomings seems a little weird to me.
There seems to be a lot of moaning about its absence on this here subforum, but if it never really was available for OSX anyway, how can you chalk that one up to the nMP?
You don't have to like the nMP, but citing inability to run CUDA as one of its shortcomings seems a little weird to me.
Okay. I don't need cuda. I need dingleberry-x. It's a technology put out by this small company called Taint-corp which makes special cards for doing smegma effects. I can't seem to figure out how to plug in this pcie card in to the nMP. But it plugs rights into the oMP without any hassle. ISN'T THAT WEIRD?!
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If the change of the name will be only cosmetic - it will be absolutely meaningless.
If the new name will bring new "mechanics", everything new under the hood - it will be meaningful.
Only Apple knows what they are planning.
http://www.techpowerup.com/221129/microsoft-details-shader-model-6-0.html
I have learned this at this very moment, it is potentially important also for Metal, Apple.
It looks like HLSL will be Open Source...
If the new name will bring new "mechanics", everything new under the hood - it will be meaningful.
Only Apple knows what they are planning.
http://www.techpowerup.com/221129/microsoft-details-shader-model-6-0.html
I have learned this at this very moment, it is potentially important also for Metal, Apple.
It looks like HLSL will be Open Source...
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about as weird as being able to plug fw800 into cmp and not nmp.. or dvi.. or optical audio.
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