With Thunderbolt 2 you can connect to your workgroup via SAN or NAS shared storage with up to 20Gb/s of bandwidth.
At the end of the paragraph describing the Mac Pro / Performance / 3D Modelling and Animation: It is mentioned on the Performance webpage for the new Mac Pro. When you connect Mac Pros together via Thunderbolt 2, in System Preferences / Network, you will see the options regarding Thunderbolt networking. Rick, that sounds very interesting.Do you have more infos on that or some furthergoing sources? Rick.lang wrote:Yes, you can create a GPU render cluster by connecting two Mac Pros via Thunderbolt 2. I would recommend the 12 core, 64GB, 1TB flash storage, dual D700 system with the 32TB Pegasus Thunderbolt 2 storage, if you want to cover all your bases. Until systems of various configurations are out in the world, testing all these combinations, it's hard to give any precise guidance on exactly what type of system you should get.Īs always, it's safest to get the best configured system you can afford. Which one of those plays how much of a role depends on a multitude of things, like what type and resolution of source material, timeline resolution, sizing and grading operations performed, and render type and resolution. Storage bandwidth, CPU and GPU processing all play a part. However, on the Apple site, in the MacPro Performance area, you can see their test results with a pre-release Resolve V10, pre-release Mavericks on a pre-release MacPro.Īs I tell everyone who calls, the performance is based on a mix of things. We have not yet tested on shipping machines, since no machines have shipped yet. I may just compromise and go for 8-core, 1TB flash, 32 GB RAM, D700s. Even if 6-core seems fine today, you know there will be new developments that demand 12-core machines. The short story is truly "buy what you can afford" as the more power it has, the longer it will be useful. I'm also waiting on the recommendations on the CPU.
Resolve doesn't currently make much use of RAM so 32 GB is likely fine. Yes, you can create a GPU render cluster by connecting two Mac Pros via Thunderbolt 2.
The big change there will be support for the new Mac Pro dual GPUs and of course, all aspects of 4K. Peter Chamberlain will be updating the Configuration Guide for the new Mac Pro but he has not done so as of this moment. I'll fit mine with D700 and 64GB of RAM, no worries there, it's the CPU matter that conserns me.Īnd lastly now that it's been released I wonder if it will be possible to link two MacPro's via say thunderbolt? So I can have one as a Master machine and another as a slave, utilizing the GPU in the slave machine? Is Davinci Resolve a hyper threading multi core user or does it benefit greater from a faster CPU?
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But as I sit there looking at the options I wonder which is the best configuration for DaVinci Resolve as it will be the only software running on the machine. Chilibow wrote:Today Apple finally starts the sale on MacPro 2013 and I bet there's many more like me, eager to get their hand on it.
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