4K system specs

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I know the 4K card and Ultrastudio are not out yet, however ...

Can anyone please advice or comment on motherboard/CPU/disk systems that would be capable of playing back 4K video files.

MB:Supermicro MBD-X9DRG-QF
CPU: 2x Intel Xeon 6C E5-2620 2.0 GHz 2 15M
RAM: Supports up to 192 GB DDR3 ECC Un-Buffered memory（MAX By OS）16GB min
Hard Disk: 500GB HDD/7200RPM 10K/15KRPM BETTER or Intel 520 SSD, 240GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Pro with SP1, 64-bit (SUPPORTS 192gbMEMORY)
GUI:NVIDIA Quadro 600 (for 2D only), or NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (for 2D and 3D)
CUDA:4 x NVIDIA Quadro 4000, or Quadro 5000, or Quadro 6000, or GTX 580 3072 MB orGTX 680 4096MB

Im looking at this xeon system with dual cpu but I thinking of the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1650
Socket-LGA2011, 6-Core, 3.2Ghz, 12MB, 130W, TRAY/without FAN.

Wich ones is the most proper ones for resolve/premiere? E5-1650 or E5-2620?
Also do you need sli on the mother board or does resolve care?

[Peter Chamberlain]

Hi, we spend a lot of time testing computer systems, disks and of course GPUs for Resolve and reject many offered to us for technical reasons. While the config guides are reviewed on a regular basis we do understand there are CPU updates that we don't get to test but do work. That said, the motherboards and slot configs are important whether its a low cost or high performance system. If you are considering 4k, performance is the priority over cost. Please review the config guides for our current recomendations.
Peter

What kind of perfomance can I espect using the recomended supermicro system without the redrocket card?

Will dual 2620 playback 4k at Half-debayer premium?

Im looking to get this system now
Supermicro 7043A-T workstation inkl:
http://www.supermicro.nl/products/syste ... 047A-T.cfm
2 x 2.0 GHz six core Xeon E5-2620
4 x 8 GB DDR3 ECC reg 1600 MHz, Samsung
240 GB SSD, Intel 520
EVGA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, PhysX Cuda
2 st cpu coolers
adapter for 240 GB SSD

/Joel

I did a re-edit and changed my question so I do *bump*

Please, Peter I need to order a workstation for davinci resolve and need to get confirmed what speeds you get using the certified supermicro workstation for resolve but without the redrocket card.

Will the supermicro with dual 2620 xeon processor playback 4k at Half-debayer premium?

[Peter Chamberlain]

Hi, the Linux config guide has a different model motherboard, 7047GR-TRF, as this has 4x16 double wide slots. We have not tested the motherboard you mention. The slot speed and non sharing slots is important if you are to get the maximum bandwidth and performance. We also used the 2 x 2.0 GHz Xeon E5-2650 which is eight cores. That will also be faster than the quad-core 2620. Finally, our test system had 32GB ram although Resolve will work with 16GB as I specified in the guide.

With our test system, a 4K R3D file without a Red Rocket, so just using the CPUs, decoded at half res good, to a HD timeline res is 24fps in our quick test. Half res premium is approx 14fps. Adding a Rocket to the slot indicated in the config guide will give half res premium at 24fps.

If you are grading to a HD timeline, half res good is suitable as you can set the debayer to highest quality for the render. Remember, 5K Epic files are 25% bigger so non rocket performance will be slower and you will need two rockets for real time playback.

All third party vendors use the RED SDK for decoding and debayering the r3d files. This is only available for CPU use so we expect performance across systems will be heavily biased to the number of cores and their speed.
I hope this helps.
Peter

What is the most important for adobe premiere working in the timeline and in resolve. More cores or more ghz? Can the xeon 2640 2.5ghz 6 cores be faster than the 2650 with 8cores 2.0ghz? In benchmarks sure the 2650 probely be faster but in real life working in the timeline?

[Peter Chamberlain]

Hi, we have not done any of those tests nor can I advise on the speed for other apps. Resolve is fully multi threaded so we use all the cores equally and so depending on the function involved it may be CPU speed and it may be cores that are best. Overall, we offer the config guide to give you a known working choice and how that fits into your facility will be up to the individual.
Peter