NEW MAC PRO! Bout TIME
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That's pretty cool. I just hope it's innards are as accessible as the old aluminum case. That was a huge selling point for me. It would also be good to know if the graphics systems can be replaced.
congratulations on finding your next new love!
hope she is not a bitch who does not play nice with your software, ie Carrara and others
or leaves, costing you alimony
Like a beautiful girl it matters not what is inside till you tire of her! BUT it looks like everything is right there! You take the cover off and everything is like in a circle.
My only question is am I gunna have to rob a bank or pimp out the sexy WENDY to afford it.
What do you say Wendy. Might have top learn to drive on the CORRECT side of the road
I can't wait! I need to know the price though! The AMD/ATI FirePro card that matches the specs on Apple's web site cost $2000.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814105004
And there are 2 of these cards in the new Mac Pro!
I know Apple will be using custom Fire Pro cards so hopefully the price will be cheaper!
On the super plus side, is that the design is such a genius improvement that the system should last as long as you want it to. Cool parts just last longer and perform better. On the bad side is the cost will certainly be understandably high. It will really blow me away if they come anywhere near the current Mac Pro price of roughly three grand. But I'm sure that it will be about twice that.
Sure would be neat to have one as a workstation and a couple more as nodes! LOL
...and on the opposite end of the spectrum:
http://www.adafruit.com/products/998
Just plain cool!
I love designing and building my own computers which, for some reason, disallows the use of the MacOS. Like they don't trust us to build a decent box. But Windows works good for me so far. One huge factor that I always design in, amongst many others, is the best air flow possible - so I filter the air on all intakes to keep the innards from accumulating dust - which causes heat and slow stuff down till it dies.
All of that considered... I still want one of those new Mac Pros!
I would point out that PC manufacturers such as Sony also build their own custom mother boards and other components to their own specs, which means you can't "build" a Sony yourself either.
I would point out that PC manufacturers such as Sony also build their own custom mother boards and other components to their own specs, which means you can't "build" a Sony yourself either.You speak the truth, young Padawon. But you are not a Jedi yet!
One thing I want to say is MY NEW MACPRO has 13 cooling fans inside it! THIRTEEN!! That is 10 plus 3! it weighs 56 pounds! A 9 inch coffee cans thats twice as fast with one fan... BRING IT ON!
I do not want to re-fan the embers of PC vs mac wars BUT COME on MAC has been and always will be the top innovator as far as it comes to production COOL "F" ing great SHEET! Even if it did take em 5 years I never saw PC remake anything in 15 years
But know that ALL Computers are made in China by political prisoners ! I am Proud to be an amerikan who uses APPLE
I was thinking of buying a $1000 Nvidia Titan but it looks like I am going to be getting the Mac Pro instead.
Only thing is along with DAZ I also use Blender and love the Cycles unbiased rendering engine and it primarily uses Nvidia's CUDA to assist the CPU but looks like AMD might actually be getting their act together when it comes to OpenCL so looks like Nvidia is going to be getting some competition.
So it looks like the FirePros in the new Mac Pro will eventually be supported for Cycles rendering in Blender.
So it is perfect timing!
I would love to own the one you have as well.
CD, where's you find a Titan for a grand?
I would love to own the one you have as well.
CD, where's you find a Titan for a grand?
Dartanbeck, isn't that the going price?
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=936377&Q=&is=REG&A=details
It looks like the Nvidia GTX 780 at $649 is getting some good reviews too!
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/156588-nvidias-gtx-780-titan-like-performance-without-the-1000-price-tag
But I don't want to get too excited about Nvidia GPUs since it looks like I am going to be getting 2 FirePros! LOL! The TITAN is not even Nvidia's pro like of GPUs, i.e. Nvidia Quadros.
My mistake - I was confusing "Titan" with an nVidia computer I saw a while back.
I found this article interesting! Looks like AMD might be using the Mac Pro to get serious and to try to get back into the game!
http://vr-zone.com/articles/why-amd-firepro-still-cannot-compete-against-nvidia-quadro-old-or-new/17074.html
Carrara doesn't see a whole lot of benefit in great video cards though. My workstation uses a Fermi based (but not Quadro) vs my laptop's GT260 stand-alone (not built into the MB) and the OpenGL performance is not that different. Of course other apps that you have may say something else, altogether, but that's my biggest reason for not going for a high-end card when I built this workstation. It relies fully on its eight core processor for rendering - and the Fermi does a great (smooth and responsive) job in my working view.
I am still wondering if I would notice a change with a Quadro. And if that change would be significant enough to be worth the extra coin.
The change from dual core to eight core processors, on the other hand, was enormous! I got the lower end AMD FX 8 Zambezi, and at the same time DAZ_Spooky got the high end chip from the same line. I paired mine with a Military Spec Motherboard capable of using 32 GB RAM, and I began with 16GB High performance RAM with nice, aggressive heat sinks.
The plan is to continue working with this one and possibly upgrade the RAM to 32. Then in another year or so, build another, which will have the main responsibility of being a render node for this one. The dual core machine has become the browser for the internet and runs my Music Composing software. But this workstation weighed in at less than a grand, including the killer case with extra fans, Windows 7 and my Sony Movie HD Platinum suite. So I could build two more of these and still come in at less cost than the current Mac Pro server-class tower, but have a total of 24 core each running at over 3GHz!
My other thought was to build my next one with a much higher budget - and use that new one as my workstation and my current one would become the render node. In that plan, I would be building more for the future - in the hopes of gaining GPU assistance for rendering with Carrara - as a server-class tower with two of the server-class, eight core chips and plenty of RAM to feed them. My buddy Garstor built one of those. Again... for what I do, the cost-saving desktop solution I've built is beautifully powerful for my animations rendering. So the first plan is nice in that I would continue to achieve amazing bang for very few bucks. By the time I have three in total, I could just stop there - as that will really crank out my clips. As technology grows and I find myself wanting to build anew, these would still be invaluable for rendering.
I'm also in the "should I buy a MacPro?" boat.
My iMac is a 3.4 GHz quad-core, so I would be looking at a 6-core 3.5 GHz MacPro probably bumping the lower end model with D300 GPUs as opposed to getting the higher one with the D500s. I don't need 4K and will only probably have two displays.
I know 6 cores will beat my current 4, but will Carrara 9 benefit from the GPUs? Or would I need LuxRender? If so, how easy is it to use? I am not a pro user but I want to make animations that are lengthy and thus time-consuming.
Carrara's render engine is CPU only. You may get a boost in the Assembly room performance as that's OpenGL driven. I see there is a thread about an Octane Carrara plugin. Does that use the GPU?
Carrara's render engine is CPU only. You may get a boost in the Assembly room performance as that's OpenGL driven. I see there is a thread about an Octane Carrara plugin. Does that use the GPU?
It seems to work with Nvidia GPU cards and CUDA. [I profess ignorance of what that is]
The new MacPro has AMD FirePro cards that use OpenCL. [Again, I profess ignorance; just seems one works with one, not the other and vice versa or something like that]
Apple, on their webpage, do show a Luxmark score (LuxRender) for the MacPro comparing it to the previous MacPro (which of course I don't have, but I did have several models back but wasn't into 3D at the time; yes, I'm confused; why did't they just put a Luxmark score??)
It would be really, really nice if it was all internal in Carrara, because I am not after anything that complicated...
Talk about adding a huge pile of coin onto the ol' Christmas wishlist, eh? Graphics card shopping, when you're looking to really get speed from a GPU cranking render engine, you're looking for something that costs some serious coin. Then Octane ain't cheap, either!
Beyond all of that, I still think that, if you can at all afford to, always go for more CPU cores if you're going for a serious Carrara machine. I want another 8! I was originally planning on making another 8 core as a render node. But instead, maybe I'll just network them anyways but build the new one to have two eight core chips. AMD made one sweet rendering chip when they developed Zambezi Eight core cpu! Spooky and I both bought them around the same time - but he got the high-end one... I went the other way to save several hundred - I had to at the time.
I find that the Mac Pro got a nice new update and the design is cool.
But at that price, I find it too much for a computer like that.
The other huge consideration, especially if you're considering the addition of Octane, is the idea of being locked into only a few choices of graphics upgrades compared to having everything made in the industry at your disposal. I can see Apple's take, I guess. They want nothing but the best of the best - so that they have less issues in customer service. But that removes me from their system entirely. I need my choices. My darn phone has a dual core proc in it now. Why would I want to spend so much on a six-core as a Carrara render machine? Truth is... I don't.
The other huge consideration, especially if you're considering the addition of Octane, is the idea of being locked into only a few choices of graphics upgrades compared to having everything made in the industry at your disposal. I can see Apple's take, I guess. They want nothing but the best of the best - so that they have less issues in customer service. But that removes me from their system entirely. I need my choices. My darn phone has a dual core proc in it now. Why would I want to spend so much on a six-core as a Carrara render machine? Truth is... I don't.
Same here. I would love to have one, but on my current budget...not gonna happen. Not for the build I'd want. I hope to retire my 5-year-old iMac early next year. If my choice is a baseline Mac Pro or a completely blown-out iMac for $3300-ish, the iMac wins.
Same here. I would love to have one, but on my current budget...not gonna happen. Not for the build I'd want. I hope to retire my 5-year-old iMac early next year. If my choice is a baseline Mac Pro or a completely blown-out iMac for $3300-ish, the iMac wins.
I am 90% sure I am getting the new 2013 Mac Pro! But the question is which configuration? The new AMD/ATI FirePro GPUs are sort of a mystery. I am not sure if the comparisons are accurate but everyone is trying to figure out what a FirePro D300, FirePro D500, and FirePro D700 are?
Here is a question and answer that I got on macrumors.com.
> Quote:
> I can't find any info on these GPUs on AMD/ATI's web site?
> Are these totally new cards or reincarnations of AMD/ATI's existing cards?
Not so much "new" as "custom"/"proprietary". Apple designed and makes these cards not AMD. Apple has licensed some stuff and buys a few basic components from AMD but it Apple's card.
> Quote:
> Anyone find anything on the web? My google search yielded nothing.
It will show up once macrumors and other rumors sites get indexed.
roughly
D300 approximately a W7000 ( less VRAM 2 versus 4 ) [ approximately AMD HD 7870 ]
D500 approximately a W8000 ( less VRAM and fewer cores and tweaked memory width ) [ approximatel AMD HD 7950 or AMD HD 7870 XT ]
D700 approximately a W9000 [ approximately AMD HD 7970 ]
I know Apple is really going to push OpenCL and with the abundance and volume of the dual FirePro GPUs that are going to be out there I can see a lot of products taking advantage of them via OpenCL.
Whichever the choice, it'll likely be sweet and fast!
Happy for you already. ;)
Has anybody gotten a new Mac Pro? It would be awesome to hear how it performs with Carrara / Daz3D.
I am getting one but the Build To Order (BTO) configurations are sold out until February!
I am thinking of getting the 3.7 Ghz Quad Core Xeon E5 with Dual Fire Pro 700s?
1. In another thread it was mentioned that DAZ Studio does not use the GPU for rendering. That does not sound right?
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/34277/
Does DAZ Studio 4.6 even use the GPU for rendering?
2. Luxus add on Renderer... I think it uses OpenCL which I think would be a great fit for the new 2013 Mac Pro but I am not sure?
3. Not sure about Carrara? I have Carrara 8.5 beta but never upgraded to the final version...
4. I am also getting it for Final Cut Pro X and also Blender 3D. Although the Bender Cycles unbiased render engine does not work with the AMD/ATI FirePro GPUs yet? It looks like AMD and Apple are working on drivers and support in the yet unrelease of Maverics 10.9.2 OS.
Neither Daz nor Carrara uses the GPU for rendering.
The main thing that will help you in rendering is the number of cores in the cpu. The only Mac Pro that I've seen that I really liked was the 12 core. Perhaps the 8. But I built my eight core Windows machine for less than $1,000.00 USD, which still makes me shy away from Mac OS.
He said he also uses Final Cut Pro X, which is only on Mac and is a dream to work with.
Love to try Mac and Final Cut Pro some day.