Radeon Pro 580x or Radeon Pro Vega 48?

[T_Oscura]

So then the Radeon RX 580 and the pro 580 are not the same like some someone mentioned earlier? I Guess one is the old M (mobile)version, while the other is the full fat version?

Yes. The Radeon Pro 580 is a mobile gpu and if I remember correctly most of the cards in the lineup are for Apple only.

 

[Voyageur]

So then the Radeon RX 580 and the pro 580 are not the same like some someone mentioned earlier? I Guess one is the old M (mobile)version, while the other is the full fat version?

The RX versions are usually more for gaming. They slightly have better characteristics in computing power and speed in general. Pro versions, as is commonly believed, are slower, but more stable.
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Yes. The Radeon Pro 580 is a mobile gpu and if I remember correctly most of the cards in the lineup are for Apple only.

They used to be really mobile, like GTX 780m and earlier. Or Radeon 295 from 2014. But after 2015, if I'm not mistaken, they began to use full-fledged video cards (sometimes with cropped characteristics). Perhaps this was made possible due to the reduction of the nanometer manufacturing process.

 

[patriziolubrani]

Samsung X5 1TB connected via thunderbolt 3 will probably be faster than the internal drive. (2500-3000 read-write) for 50% of the price of Apple's upgrade. So you will get 1TB extra instead 512GB extra for 50% less money.

I'd say Vega 48, since it's significantly better, especially for video. it's a nobrainer


you need a quantum computer
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no it doesn't, not anymore at least.
I have a superfast external NVMe SSD on a Mini with 512GB internal storage. Internal storage has 400GB free, i work mostly on the external now, since i can just disconnect it and have everything on a MacBook. + if anything goes awry, you don't need to jump through hoops to recover your work.

Hello, everyone, could you be worth the same conversation using these programs?
Photoshop, Lightroom, pro, 4d film and also X plane 11.
Thank you

 

[Rockadile]

So then the Radeon RX 580 and the pro 580 are not the same like some someone mentioned earlier? I Guess one is the old M (mobile)version, while the other is the full fat version?

RX - consumer
Pro - workstation

 

[Bohemien]

I guess for photo editing and music production, it'd make more sense to upgrade the CPU (i5->i9) rather than the graphics card (580X->Vega), right?

 

[Kaelis]

I guess for photo editing and music production, it'd make more sense to upgrade the CPU (i5->i9) rather than the graphics card (580X->Vega), right?

Yes indeed.

Music Production won’t benefit from a better GPU at all and photo editing only use for a few tools in Photoshop.

 

[EdwardWeston]

Thanks to everybody who replied here! After lots of research, reading hours of posts on this forum and much obsessive thinking, I did order a new 2019 iMac for my film student daughter.
27”
i9
Vega 48
1TB SSD
8g RAM (will self upgrade to 40g)

Hoping this ends up being a good choice (a little concerned about heat/ cooling) that will work well for her, for some time to come!

I see your in So.Cal - how long did delivery take?

 

[basilgg]

I've worked professionally in film for about 10 years now. I ALWAYS buy the smallest possible SSD for just the system and the apps. All work files go on RAID drives connected to the system, and get put on the shelf when that project is done.

 

[Colonel Blimp]

My 2019 iMac with Vega 48 arrived yesterday. I had hoped to post some benchmarks here, but Unigine Heaven 4.0 and Valley 1.0 (the current versions) are both crashing immediately upon launch, upon both my iMacs (2015 and 2019) running macOS 10.14.4.

If you think you might be able to help diagnose this crash, please see my message here.

Thanks!

 

[lederermc]

According to one review of a 2018 MBP Vega 20 that I saw recently, FCX is already so optimized that a faster graphics card doesn't do very much for you while editing. It did make a difference and sometimes a huge difference in exporting though.

This review isn't iMac specific, but it might be helpful nonetheless:

I'd hate to go under 1TB, but given that it's a desktop machine and there's very little performance penalty for an external SSD, I wouldn't have any issue with a 512GB SSD. If you're doing video, you're going to need external storage before long anyway.

Regarding SSD: I recently bought a 2 TB Intel PCIe SSD + a USB 3.1 Gen 2 enclosure (10Gbps) on Amazon for about $300. Disk speed on 2018 MBP (4core i7) was 800 MB/s, whereas Internal SSD is 2700 MB/s and SATA based SSD about 400 MB/s.

 

[smirking]

Disk speed on 2018 MBP (4core i7) was 800 MB/s, whereas Internal SSD is 2700 MB/s and SATA based SSD about 400 MB/s.

Someone else ran the Blackmagic speed test on an SSD over TB3 and came up with numbers that were pretty close to the internal speeds.

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Someone else ran the Blackmagic speed test on an SSD over TB3 and came up with numbers that were pretty close to the internal speeds.

That would depend on the kind of SSD: a PCIe or NVMe SSD is going to be much faster than a SATA SSD, whether internal or via Thunderbolt 3. I believe the SATA III bus is limited to a theoretical maximum throughput of 6 Gb/s, or 600 MB/s.