8k RED - 4x M6000 24GB or 4x GTX 1080 8GB

Hi all,
I'm gearing up to do an 20min piece shot on Monstro 8K RED @23.976fps. Question is, do I load up the CUBIX with 4 M6000 24GBs or 4x GTX 1080 8GBs?

Running Resolve 14.3.1 on a Supermicro Dual 16-core Xeon E5-26xx (can't recall) machine, content on an SSD Array.

Thoughts?

Shane

I cannot answer about the M6000, but the GTX 1080 Ti is alot faster than the GTX

Andreas makes a good point. Why not the 1080Ti?

Anyway, as usual the Quadro gives terrible bang for buck and according to videocardbenchmark the GTXs win hands down.

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Hi, thank you for the responses!

Let me rephrase...Faster is not always "better" when dealing with large files. the GXT has 8GB Ram the M6000 has 24GB Ram. .. I don't have to worry about RED decode as these have been converted to .EXRs.

I have 4 x M6000 24GB
I have 4 x GTX 1080. (not Ti, nor am I intending to buy anything new)...

...so the question that I seek answered/considered, IF you were only to have 4 of these two cards, which of these sets would you choose for grading Monstro 8K RED...(that's been converted to .EXR)

I know the stats of the cards, I looked them up long ago... the question is centering around Pro/Con, hopefully based in experience. Does the slower M6000 with 24Gb offer some benefit that I'm not considering over the speed of the GTX 1080?

..make more sense?

Outside of some edge case where you run out of VRAM on a 1080, no.

..Edge cases.. yeah I seem to live in edge cases here at Dolby. After speaking with Dwaine M. at BMD, he suggested the M6000 with 24Gb Ram would be the best fit.

More Cuda Cores
Larger Ram Buffer to deal with massive images

Thanks Dwaine!!

[Peter Chamberlain]

Dwaine is correct. For your 8k application vram size and bus speed is really important.