MP 7,1 Is the W5700X the best card for most users?

[th0masp]

I believe Affinity checks every time the software loads, and is a problem with their code.

Well, Affinity is blocked from accessing the web on all my computers. It has never thrown problems or refused to start as a result - as far as I recall. On Windows and Mac (blocked by LuLu, previously Little Snitch).

 

[Gr1f]

I’ve only had my W5700X Mac Pro for a few weeks and I’ve had no problems with Adobe CC. I work mostly in PP, AE, and Media Encoder.

Same here. Not a blip out of it since I got mine.

 

[Average Pro]

No issues or hiccups since day 1.

 

[UMHurricanes34]

I wouldn't recommend this card at all. I've had nothing but bother with it from the start. Restarts, panics. Just appalling performance.

I fall into this camp as well. We have two 7,1 configs with the W5700X in our post production operation that randomly freeze and crash on a daily basis (yesterday alone, one of them crashed three times). And when I say crash, I mean the machine just turns off.

These crashes occur for us in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder.

 

[Anti12]

No problem with AE or PR after almost a year of heavy usage. (System sleep is disabled, only monitor is allowed to rest)

 

[daveedjackson]

No problem with AE or PR after almost a year of heavy usage. (System sleep is disabled, only monitor is allowed to rest)

This issue is only an issue after a system sleep. Maybe you can enable sleep and see if you have the same issue. It doesn’t mean you don’t just because you’ve disabled sleep. It just means you’ve changed the parameter of the issue.

 

[Anti12]

Maybe you can enable sleep and see if you have the same issue.

Ha ha, I gave it a shot. Putting the mac to sleep while leaving After Effects active caused AE to instantly crash upon wake up followed by a complete system freeze.

 

[choreo]

I have run all my Adobe apps on my 2015 MacBook Pro through all the various versions of Catalina and now with Big Sur with sleep enabled - never a freeze or crash.

So, it sounds to me that there is a problem with at least the 7,1/w7500x/Sleep combination. The reason I include the GPU in that mix is because I am not hearing of these issues from those with the Vega II Pro. My crashes have been somewhat evenly distributed:

1. Crash during sleep (actually most of the time on waking from sleep it appears)
2. Adobe apps - AI, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, AE, Photoshop (in that order)
3. Apple apps - Quicktime, Safari (mostly Quicktime)

Hard to track down because I sometimes go for days with sleep enabled and no crashes.

 

[daveedjackson]

Honestly I’ve been through the issue countless times. It’s a driver issue with the w5700x after a lengthy battle with apple, and AMD confirming it was a driver issue after refusing a warranty claim, I got my money back. Apple have no intention of fixing it. I swapped to the Vega. Zero issue since paying for a more powerful card. It’s a 7,1 issue. Doing this with a different system doesn’t help at all. This issue is specific to this setup. Interestingly I was told some systems that have shipped with the w5700x haven’t displayed the issue. I can’t validate that, but I can tell you from my experience it’s the drivers.

 

[profdraper]

It seems like with the w5700x Displayport data compression, and the price per gb at 16gb of video ram, it seems like this would be the obvious recommendation for most users and applications over the stock 580. What do you think?

No.