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nMP/new Mac Pro/Mac Pro 6,1 Reviews [MERGED]
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Unboxing's are great, but tear downs are what we really want to see!
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BTW, here's Ars initial thoughts on what config to buy...
You can spend $9,599 on a Mac Pro, but should you?
Are there no reviews where they actually use it? E.g. load up an FCP X project and show off the 4K multi cam work, or the epic rendering?
How many effects can FCPX playback on RED 4K media without frame dropping?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-myFXiEh2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-myFXiEh2Q
512MB SSD Benchmark from MacWorld...
The first thing I notice is that while the base speed is lovely… look what happens when you start dealing with 1080p :/
The speed for 1080p at 10bit 444 is more or less the speed at which you can drag an HD file from a CF card.
That table is frames per second, not MB/s. So that's 117 fps of uncompressed 1080p, four real-time streams at 24 fps (almost five).
I don't mean to be patronising, but that is not how this benchmark works and your summation is incorrect. Those are very good speeds
That's rather impressive. My current system can't even handle 1080p with a couple of effects on top.
I wish this thing wasn't so damn expensive here in NZ
That's awesome. That's with their 8-Core, D700 config.
Here's the related article if anyone cares...
The first 24 hours with Apple's new Mac Pro and Final Cut Pro 10.1
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Also, here's the Black Magic benchmark on the 1TB SSD... very similar to the 512 I posted above (probably within margin of error) which should put to rest any concerns that the 512 is somehow bottlenecked...
Of course, not mentioned in their review is that nobody who actually needs 4k would use FCPX or any of those corny filters. Maybe in a few years.
An eye opener - 18 effects. Didn't hear the fan get louder will listen again with headphones.
Optimised for the platform though, interested to see the CS benchmarks rather more.
Serious german IT-magazine c't:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Apples-neuer-Mac-Pro-im-Kurztest-2071465.html
achtkerniger Xeon E5-CPU (3,0 GHz), zwei D700-Fire-Pro-Grafikkarten von AMD mit jeweils 6 GByte VRAM, 64 GByte RAM (DDR3-1867 ECC) und 1 TByte SSD.
Fast, noisy, expensive, sexy.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Apples-neuer-Mac-Pro-im-Kurztest-2071465.html
achtkerniger Xeon E5-CPU (3,0 GHz), zwei D700-Fire-Pro-Grafikkarten von AMD mit jeweils 6 GByte VRAM, 64 GByte RAM (DDR3-1867 ECC) und 1 TByte SSD.
Fast, noisy, expensive, sexy.
Serious german IT-magazine c't:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Apples-neuer-Mac-Pro-im-Kurztest-2071465.html
achtkerniger Xeon E5-CPU (3,0 GHz), zwei D700-Fire-Pro-Grafikkarten von AMD mit jeweils 6 GByte VRAM, 64 GByte RAM (DDR3-1867 ECC) und 1 TByte SSD.
Fast, noisy, expensive, sexy.
Noisy? That would be the first "hands on" to say the nMP is noisy. And expensive compared to what, exactly?
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Ha, over 1,100 comments in that post.
They measured 2,7 Sone when both D700s were used.
Remember the old C2D MacBooks' fan? Louder than that
I am pretty much sure this might be very annoying in a silent environment.
Remember the old C2D MacBooks' fan? Louder than that
I am pretty much sure this might be very annoying in a silent environment.
'Better performance' mode does a half-resolution decode on Red clips, so it's really working with 2K footage there. That said, Red footage playback is nuts without a RedRocket, with the required de-bayer and wavelet decompression. Even 2K decoding in real-time is impressive, and requires more horsepower than working with, say, 4K ProRes.
Also, Red currently has beta support for GPU-based decoding; once that makes it into FCP X you probably will be able to do real 4K in real time on that system.
I guess I did misunderstand those numbers
and just saw that YouTube.
That's pretty amazing. I swore january this year that we would get 4K to consumers before the end of the year, but I have to be honest I didn't believe we would get this close.
I see no reason now why manufacturers shouldn't just begin sending stocking up 4K monitors and tvs so we can get the prices down and then 4K content will follow all by itself.
That's pretty amazing. I swore january this year that we would get 4K to consumers before the end of the year, but I have to be honest I didn't believe we would get this close.
I see no reason now why manufacturers shouldn't just begin sending stocking up 4K monitors and tvs so we can get the prices down and then 4K content will follow all by itself.
Yep, confirmed my thinking, even though it was more than I wanted to spend.. base hex with 512 SSD.