Concerns About a Graphics Card

Fauvist

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-5500m.c3463
I'll attach a link for the information I have about the card, which is installed in the new 16" MacBook Pro - the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M.  I know it's not NVIDIA  and the difficulties with rendering Iray.  I am sorely lacking in computer knowledge.  Is this card - with its Open GL 4.6, and its 128 bit memory bus - going to work with Daz Studio?

Thanks!

duckbomb

It's not a matter of being difficult to render in Iray, the graphics card will simply not work when rendering because it is incompatible.  I also have a MacBook with an AMD card for work, and I can pose out just fine and then render using CPU, but these MacBooks heat up quickly and slow down to a crawl.

you can render in 3delight, no problem, and the DAZ interface should work well enough, but rendering in Iray will be slow and hot as it will act as if you had no video card at all...

Fauvist

duckbomb said:

It's not a matter of being difficult to render in Iray, the graphics card will simply not work when rendering because it is incompatible.  I also have a MacBook with an AMD card for work, and I can pose out just fine and then render using CPU, but these MacBooks heat up quickly and slow down to a crawl.

you can render in 3delight, no problem, and the DAZ interface should work well enough, but rendering in Iray will be slow and hot as it will act as if you had no video card at all...

There is a Iray render farm for that.

Silver Dolphin

If this mac lappy has thuderbolt you could run an external video card but it is kind of hit or miss if it will work. Do some internet research.

kenshaw011267

Macbook pros are not actually proferssional grade machines. I don't care what the label says or that it comes with an i9. You can send email, surf the web and watch videos without an issue (although watch a whole movie and I'd be careful picking it up). You might be able to get through a keynot presentation as long as you don't get too fancy. Beyond that it is completely unsuitable. Do not buy it. The basic Macbook is just as good at the tasks it can do. If you need to do actual professional work on a lappie you'll have to get a PC one.

duckbomb

It's true that the Razer Core X, along with other, GPU enclosures will work with Mac, but Nvidia and Apple are currently at odds so current drivers aren't out there for Nvidia cards.  There are workarounds, but largely it isn't worth the effort.

Fauvist

What about this?  Will this work?  https://www.amazon.ca/CYBERPOWERPC-Xtreme-Gaming-Liquid-i9-9900K/dp/B07TRPGPCL/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=SLC8260A2&qid=1577561865&s=electronics&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&sr=1-2

Cybersox

kenshaw011267 said:

Macbook pros are not actually proferssional grade machines. I don't care what the label says or that it comes with an i9. You can send email, surf the web and watch videos without an issue (although watch a whole movie and I'd be careful picking it up). You might be able to get through a keynot presentation as long as you don't get too fancy. Beyond that it is completely unsuitable. Do not buy it. The basic Macbook is just as good at the tasks it can do. If you need to do actual professional work on a lappie you'll have to get a PC one.

So true. there was a time when Macs were great machines, but now they're all style over substance.  I work in a high end post production house and we've scrapped most of our Macs for PCs over the last ten years. 

ed3D

_ also  Dell Outlet _ worth looking at

https://www.dell.com/us/dfb/p/?cs=28&c=us&l=en&s=dfb&~ck=mn

kenshaw011267

Fauvist said:

What about this?  Will this work?  https://www.amazon.ca/CYBERPOWERPC-Xtreme-Gaming-Liquid-i9-9900K/dp/B07TRPGPCL/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=SLC8260A2&qid=1577561865&s=electronics&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&sr=1-2

Very good system for DS, expensive for what you get but that will be true of any prebuilt.