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Storage aside, is there any model Mac Pro that can handle playback at these rough specs?
- Source Material: R3D 6144x3160 or ProRes 3840x2160
- Timeline Resolution: 3996x2160 or 4096x1716
- Monitor Output Resolution: 3840x2160

If not, can either of these machines configured correctly with 2 GPUs handle it?
- HP Z840
- Dell Precision 7910

Thanks for the advice

Hard to estimate because of the variables involved. It would depend on the RAW decode quality you choose and just how much grading and intensive nodes (such as noise reduction) you use. You could probably set the decode to its lowest (1/16th) and if your grades aren't intensive you would easily get realtime playback on a 2013 mac pro and either of those windows options. But thats probably not what you would be after.

Right now (before a new mac pro is revealed/released) the absolute fastest Mac solution would be an iMac Pro, with the custom Vega 64 option and then one or two additional Vega 64s in EGPU boxes. Something like that **may** well be able to handle what you are proposing. You can get nvidia GPUs to work in egpu boxes but its hacky/not officially supported.

You will get much higher performance for your dollar with a PC workstation, especially if your work is GPU intensive.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... tion-1154/