Sam Steti wrote:Marc Wielage wrote: I'm getting ready to dump the piece of crap Trashcan Mac and go with a PC, just due to render glitches and the inability to upgrade the GPU.
Never understood the motivation for a pro to go for a trashcan, given that even the form factor only can show we won't be able to upgrade anything... [nothing to do with you of course, just sayin in general]
Beside that, anyone can see on barefeat that a legacy macpro tower with proper double GPU inside* wipe the floor with the thrashcan
*(don't even talk about an external PCIe enclosure)
Nowadays, due to the lack of nvidia 10xx series webdriver for Mac, things obviously change...
exactly! as a budding colorist, am contemplating setting up my first system and now that the BMD finally released affordable control surfaces i am looking at the tech that is available right now.
what i found so far, is this--as i am not allowed to post URLs, you'll have to google it or PM me if you want to see the excellent review on youtube from this scottish dude that really breaks down all the info re the new AMD CPU.
check this out: AMD came out with its new flagship CPU that beats the pants off the Intel 7700K. so for less than a Apple trashcan you can build yourself a PC running Windows 10 with a AMD Ryzen 7 1700 OCed inside, 64GB of DDR4 RAM, with the fastest graphics card on the market atm: the AMD Radeon Pro Duo (well until AMD releases the Vega 10 later this year)--that's a dual GPU on 1 card giving you about 16 TFLOP in single precision. of course, the mobo has another PCIe slot for a 2nd card, so we are talking possibly 4 GPUs with a total VRAM of 16GB. a bit short there, i'd like to see 128GB at least in VRAM, but short of spending 10K on a Radeon Pro SSG with its 1 TB of NVM (on the card, yes i kid you not), we are stuck with current VRAM board limitations.
of course, power supply, liquid cooling, fans, internal SSDs, and external RAID plus a Thunderbolt adapter... well ok... perhaps you'll get the same price as a trashcan but 10x more performant. and upgradable.
AFAIK, it's no contest.