Do you guys see a performance increase in 3d apps and sketching apps with the quadro 4000? This might be my solution to the problem I'm having. In theory a work station card would work better for pro apps right?
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I use it mostly for Resolve and Maya. My older Quadro 4800 does better with After Effects for some weird reason.
I dont have Sketch Pro. But most of the tech in Sketch Pro comes from maya and it does a decent job with openGL and Paint FX.
Do you have brush lag when rotating the canvas in sketchbook pro? I got a response back from Autodesk about my situation. They do kind of admit that their software runs better on nvidia than ati.
Tested on a Mac Pro 2.93 with Quadro 4000 running dual Cinema 30's.
No lag. Using a mouse.
dont have table in my room at the moment.
Thank you for testing! I would be interested to see how it acts when the tablet is installed.
Im sure the same. I would like to see this on a iMac. The 2.93 MP might be helping.
yes. it originally came with the 5870. do you get the same results with Photoshop?
Been emailing Autodesk off and on for the past month and half about my problem. They haven't really given me a proper solution. Today I got an email back from them after I told them about my experiments at the apple store.
He basically told me that all their products run much better on Nvidia than Ati but he wasn't sure about sketchbook pro. He was going to ask the devs if they had any idea what was going on.
I will be getting into Alias next semester and probably going to be using that on a regular basis as well as sketchbook, I might invest in a mac pro with a quadro card if it is indeed faster than what I currently have.
He basically told me that all their products run much better on Nvidia than Ati but he wasn't sure about sketchbook pro. He was going to ask the devs if they had any idea what was going on.
I will be getting into Alias next semester and probably going to be using that on a regular basis as well as sketchbook, I might invest in a mac pro with a quadro card if it is indeed faster than what I currently have.
I hate to say it, but with OS X you are limited to what Quadro cards you can use. If you decide to go for a more powerful Quadro card like the 5000, then you will have to either use it only it bootcamp or buy/build a non-Apple computer
I hate to say it, but with OS X you are limited to what Quadro cards you can use. If you decide to go for a more powerful Quadro card like the 5000, then you will have to either use it only it bootcamp or buy/build a non-Apple computer
Well if the 4000 can run the programs I need then I don't need to go any higher. Just need to be running better than what I do now. I know osx isn't very compatible with anything but I can't stand windows.
Haha I'm right there with ya!
Unfortunately, I think I will need to build my own when I finally upgrade my current Mac Pro. Hopefully, that won't be for at least 2 more years. But I will be looking at a Quadro 5000 (or an updated version by that time) and don't want to be forced to boot into Windows whenever I need to use it. I don't want to fiddle with dual GPUs whenever I reboot. I will just build my own desktop with the 5000 and have my laptop OS X.
It depends greatly on what you are doing. Generally though with current tech it is slower. The spec stuff is all in Win NOT OS X.
Take it with a grain of salt but truly the 4000 is super overpriced.
http://www.barefeats.com/wst10g9.html
I was under the impression that Quadro cards were geared much towards professional apps like After Effects, Premiere, Maya, 3DS Max, and stuff like that. And other cards like the 5870 were consumer grade cards more geared towards gaming.
Like if you need the power for AE or Maya, the performance from a Quadro card will kill the performance of any consumer grade card. Is that not true?
how much ram do you have in your MP? i doubt the vid card has anything at all to do with the crappy performance 'on rotate as its 2d.. whats the rest of the spec on your MP?
i love SBP lots, and have used it for a long while now, but have never had any dramas on rotate.. that said, i do use a gtx 285... *shruggs*
are you having dramas on your Imac? if thats the case, you may want to post in the imac specific forum for help.
Interesting to see that even with 16gb of ram your having issues. SBP has one of the lightest footprints for graphics apps ive seen/used...
i love SBP lots, and have used it for a long while now, but have never had any dramas on rotate.. that said, i do use a gtx 285... *shruggs*
are you having dramas on your Imac? if thats the case, you may want to post in the imac specific forum for help.
Interesting to see that even with 16gb of ram your having issues. SBP has one of the lightest footprints for graphics apps ive seen/used...
how much ram do you have in your MP? i doubt the vid card has anything at all to do with the crappy performance 'on rotate as its 2d.. whats the rest of the spec on your MP?
i love SBP lots, and have used it for a long while now, but have never had any dramas on rotate.. that said, i do use a gtx 285... *shruggs*
are you having dramas on your Imac? if thats the case, you may want to post in the imac specific forum for help.
Interesting to see that even with 16gb of ram your having issues. SBP has one of the lightest footprints for graphics apps ive seen/used...
I really Coming to the conclusion that it might be a nvidia ati thing.
It would still be Autodesk's issue as they are not giving equal importance to vendors. Or they are using such special code that ATI can't deal and bug's out. Could be they sold out for CUDA on rotate actions, who knows?
I do not know if that is the case with SBP, but any other Autodesk (and many other 3D or CAD) are about Nvidia vs ATI. these programs are optimised for Nvidia cards, especially for rotating functions. You can completelly forget even the most powerful ATI card, you simply need Fermi based Nvidia for that purpose.
You can find more details on differences between GeForce and Quadro cards in professional apps here: http://www.nvidia.com/attach/1006974?type=support&primitive=0
Software, that can take an advantage of Maximus/CUDA - like Premiere and AE - will obviously see a great benefit of using Nvidia GPU (any Nvidia supporting CUDA). Software, that can take advantage of antialiased PL, logic operations, accelerated clip panes, two-sided lighting, etc. - like most of the 3D and CAD - will require (or have benefit of using) Quadro card.
As said before, I do not have any experience with SBP. However as all other Autodesk software support CUDA, I would tend to thing that SBP is the same. So that the OP will have a benefit of using Nvidia card vs. ATI one.
On the other side, as there is really limited selection of Nvidia cards for Mac, higher end ATI cards currently supported by OSX (like 5870) will be (probably) more powerful in software, that does not use the advantage of Nvidia's CUDA or for OpenCL / DX - for example Photoshop.
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If anyone has a quadro 4000 could they test out sketchbook pro and a wacom tablet. I still haven't got any answers back from autodesk.