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Mac Pro D500 Unit ready for Testing. What would you like me to run?
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Hmm, I saw in other test it writes FireGL, why does GPU-Z shows Radeon?
Oh and can you run SPECviewperf® 12 test pls, thanks!
http://www.spec.org/gwpg/downloadindex.html
And also SPECviewperf® 11 for 64bit as I guess 12 is new, so it might be harder to compare with previously tested workstation GPU which is done with SPECviewperf® 11
http://www.spec.org/gwpg/gpc.static/prev_benchmarks.html
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Thank u for doing all this. I am convinced that the mac pro is to expensive vs a maxed out iMac if u work with Photoshop / Illustrator. Are there any adobe photoshop benchmarks u can cycle through? I know there are a lot of people looking for Photoshop benchmarks for this machine, but the main focus is video editing benches so far.
I think that is the best way so ppl can compare it with other benches or try them on their own system to. I (was) in the race for a nMP 6c and D500, the same setup you are using. So I am very interested in benches.
Specialy what openCL can do for photoshop with the dual D500. And the 6core has a nice 3,5 Ghz clocked cpu. The iMac i7 has a faster clocked CPU and maybe a better workhorse for Photoshop, at this moment.
I think that is the best way so ppl can compare it with other benches or try them on their own system to. I (was) in the race for a nMP 6c and D500, the same setup you are using. So I am very interested in benches.
Specialy what openCL can do for photoshop with the dual D500. And the 6core has a nice 3,5 Ghz clocked cpu. The iMac i7 has a faster clocked CPU and maybe a better workhorse for Photoshop, at this moment.
Photoshop and lightroom are heavy on CPU but hardly uses the GPU.
A quick geekbench could answer you question.
iMac i7 (2013) 3472(Single-Core Score) 13067(Multi-Core Score)
nMP:
4core 3.7ghz -> 3270, 12914
6core 3.5ghz -> 3276, 18542
8core 3.0ghz -> 3651, 25422
10core 3.0ghz -> 2575, 24542 (I'm surprise this 10core score is so bad)
I'm actually interested to see Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 8 core 3.3 GHz score
I'm not going to purchase geek bench just to get scores that seem to be readily available, sorry.
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Here are my real world, vfx professional figures based upon actual production data:
Running Resolve 10 I was getting butter smooth performance on a 24 fps grade on a D500 equipped Mac Pro running 4k dpx scanned film frames off of the internal ssd with a full set of grading going for a small commercial project.
Things went off without a hitch and adding a Pegasus raid as the source drive to test thunderbolt performance also resulted in similar output. I didn't see any issues.
Resolves also uses the first gpu for GUI and the second for grading as needed.
Mari 2.5 test case:
Computer 1: mid 2013 iMac 27" fully loaded with 32gb ram, top tier gpu, etc on a fusion drive system
Computer 2: 64 gb second tier six core new Mac Pro
Scene contained 5 million faces over 12 objects running about 40 8k textures real time. Total file size for Mari archive before decompression is about 4 gb.
Computer 1 ran scene at 2fps with everything turned on.
Computer 2 ran scene at 12fps withe very thing turned on.
Mari also recognizes both gpus but uses only one by default. Changing it to dual gpu doesn't seem to affect anything at the moment and I'm assuming that the code isn't implemented yet but will be in the future builds.
With main character asset and ground props enabled:
Computer 1 ran scene at 6 fps
Computer 2 ran scene at 21fps.
The software that is built leveraging the Multiple gpus in the new Mac Pro shows a distinct speed difference from what you're all used to. For professional applications in the post and VFX world this machine is phenomenal.
I'd go into vray rt and multicore statistics, but I don't have the figures handy at the moment.
Nuke screams, especially Kronos and ocula!
Maya, media composer 7, and other avid and Autodesk software doesn't take advantage of the full multicolor power at the moment in osx (but new builds are in the works), however they all run wonderfully in boot camp.
The performance on the Autodesk and avid apps are similar to the iMac due to the lack of multicore and multiple gpu support.
Hopefully this helps.
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Here are my real world, vfx professional figures based upon actual production data:
Running Resolve 10 I was getting butter smooth performance on a 24 fps grade on a D500 equipped Mac Pro running 4k dpx scanned film frames off of the internal ssd with a full set of grading going for a small commercial project.
Things went off without a hitch and adding a Pegasus raid as the source drive to test thunderbolt performance also resulted in similar output. I didn't see any issues.
Resolves also uses the first gpu for GUI and the second for grading as needed.
Mari 2.5 test case:
Computer 1: mid 2013 iMac 27" fully loaded with 32gb ram, top tier gpu, etc on a fusion drive system
Computer 2: 64 gb second tier six core new Mac Pro
Scene contained 5 million faces over 12 objects running about 40 8k textures real time. Total file size for Mari archive before decompression is about 4 gb.
Computer 1 ran scene at 2fps with everything turned on.
Computer 2 ran scene at 12fps withe very thing turned on.
Mari also recognizes both gpus but uses only one by default. Changing it to dual gpu doesn't seem to affect anything at the moment and I'm assuming that the code isn't implemented yet but will be in the future builds.
With main character asset and ground props enabled:
Computer 1 ran scene at 6 fps
Computer 2 ran scene at 21fps.
The software that is built leveraging the Multiple gpus in the new Mac Pro shows a distinct speed difference from what you're all used to. For professional applications in the post and VFX world this machine is phenomenal.
I'd go into vray rt and multicore statistics, but I don't have the figures handy at the moment.
Nuke screams, especially Kronos and ocula!
Maya, media composer 7, and other avid and Autodesk software doesn't take advantage of the full multicolor power at the moment in osx (but new builds are in the works), however they all run wonderfully in boot camp.
The performance on the Autodesk and avid apps are similar to the iMac due to the lack of multicore and multiple gpu support.
Hopefully this helps.
Geekbench tells me nothing how PS reacts on a nMP. Only showing CPU numbers, and i am not interested in horny numbers, i want to know how PS handels a 6c with a D500 on board.
@MGmx, i am sorry, i am not sure what the standard PS benchmark is. There is a other topic here where a lot of ppl posting there numbers. I think it is a good thing to use that script? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/200558/
Mgmx, any chance of running SPECviewperf® 11 64 bit Windows benchmarking test? I posted earlier, but just in case you missed it
http://www.spec.org/gwpg/gpc.static/prev_benchmarks.html
Thanks
http://www.spec.org/gwpg/gpc.static/prev_benchmarks.html
Thanks
Thanks for benchmarking, very helpful for me.
That 3dmark score is most helpful. It clearly does not use both cards.
It's also almost 4000 point slower than a 7970m which is similar in cores/clocks to the D300. Either the windows drivers are poorly optimised or the low clock speed is hurting the d500.
Do you own any mac games?
That 3dmark score is most helpful. It clearly does not use both cards.
It's also almost 4000 point slower than a 7970m which is similar in cores/clocks to the D300. Either the windows drivers are poorly optimised or the low clock speed is hurting the d500.
Do you own any mac games?
MGMX,
I noticed you tested Maya. The 2013/14 version is supposed to have OpenCL support, I watched a youtube video showing a 600 million polygon scene filled with untextured cars on a FirePro W9000 and the viewport was spinning about great. This is viewport updates, not realtime rendering. What version did you test in?
I too will be boot camping to run 3D Studio Max and VRay version 3 for RT work so I have fingers crossed VRay support for OpenCL has matured enough. I prefer not to switch to Maya even though it is Mac compatible. All my other work is Mac based so I'm ok in that respect. I wish 3DSMax has an OSX version to be honest.
As for 3D Mark, I noticed that the other benchmarks for the D700 were running on Windows 8.1 not 8.0 if that matters.
Thanks for all your posts, you have been a great help for those of us waiting for our machines to arrive.
Anim
I noticed you tested Maya. The 2013/14 version is supposed to have OpenCL support, I watched a youtube video showing a 600 million polygon scene filled with untextured cars on a FirePro W9000 and the viewport was spinning about great. This is viewport updates, not realtime rendering. What version did you test in?
I too will be boot camping to run 3D Studio Max and VRay version 3 for RT work so I have fingers crossed VRay support for OpenCL has matured enough. I prefer not to switch to Maya even though it is Mac compatible. All my other work is Mac based so I'm ok in that respect. I wish 3DSMax has an OSX version to be honest.
As for 3D Mark, I noticed that the other benchmarks for the D700 were running on Windows 8.1 not 8.0 if that matters.
Thanks for all your posts, you have been a great help for those of us waiting for our machines to arrive.
Anim
Thanks a lot for your effort!! The real 3d mark would on fact be the most interesting for me since it's the most comparable test directly to the power of the d700! I'm having a hard time figuring out wether the upgrade is worth it or not..especially since I'm the most reliant On adobe software..
What about BakedBeans 'real World' pshop test from this forum, could you run it? Thanks. Enjoy your new Mac Pro btw.
The only game I play. It about same as a GTX660 I had in my 3.1 MP.
In 2560X1440 with High quality and AA enable. It's few frames behind the GTX660. In 1080P full screen, it's smooth as butter. With ROS PTR, 1080p is the max resolution.
Is there certain scene you want me to get the FPS?
Do you happen to have WoW installed? or can install a demo from your bnet account? Would love to see framerates for some basic areas that I could compare.
This is with D500, correct?