New Mac Pro

[Polygon]

I still remember when SLI meant Scan Line Interleave on the Voodoo2s

Oh the days :P



Love the intel chipset over there :P

A WHOPPING 128mb of graphics memory!!!

[mdcdesign]

Oh the days :P



Love the intel chipset over there :P

If that's a Voodoo5 6000, I've got one of those in a box somewhere :P

EDIT: One of the first cards to require external 12V power if I remember rightly :O

[Polygon]

If that's a Voodoo5 6000, I've got one of those in a box somewhere :P

EDIT: One of the first cards to require external 12V power if I remember rightly :O

but..un...releas...ed...

SELL ME SELL ME SELL ME SELL ME

[makar1]

CUDA sucks on the last gen because kepler wasn't designed with raw power in mind as fermi was.

The Titan is Kepler too, yet it has decent CUDA performance.

[mdcdesign]

but..un...releas...ed...

SELL ME SELL ME SELL ME SELL ME

Ahaha you wouldn't want it, they're ridiculously slow by todays' standards :P

If you want to see some serious Voodoo-related badassery though, check out this maniac's thread: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=355053

[balakoth]

1200 certainly is a resolution, I'm using it right now. Connected to the computer I built from scratch..

7970s are extremely cheap compared to the FirePros that will be used in the Pro. I really don't care that much about the machine, but it is unfair to compare it to a gaming rig you built at home.

The FirePro two base models, once that will be supplied in the Mac Pro, have the same Stream Count, Ram, and Clock Frequencies. Only difference is going to be Drivers, and thats going to affect render performance.

Notice how we are DJTechtools, for.. audio? Basically the only point you have to argue is that I didnt buy top of the line 3000 video cards for rendering video... Instead I have two 600 dollar video cards for Gaming, that provide the same Polygon rendering count in a 3dmax environment that the low end FirePros do.... Secondly technically when I built this machine, Apple wasnt using FirePros they were still using Radeons.

So if you take away your server desktop cards, My machine.. still wins in Audio Production (Yes yes FirePros are going to destroy a Gaming card, but I wasnt aware I needed to render video as a producer and create render farms for my next big pixar movie)

I going assume they willl allow you to not use the FirePro, their cheapest FirePro is 500 a piece and we know apple jacks that up another 400 for resell. They will still be able to come with Radeons, as many people still use their Pros for gaming as well.

Good on Apple for working so hard on that Case design, now everyone elses hard work can be shown off. Pretty cool honestly.

[Polygon]

The Titan is Kepler too, yet it has decent CUDA performance.

Because it has frickin' 2 times the transistor count. The 680 was about 20% slower than the 580, which makes the titan quite faster.

[balakoth]

If that's a Voodoo5 6000, I've got one of those in a box somewhere :P

EDIT: One of the first cards to require external 12V power if I remember rightly :O

I had a Voodoo2... heh.. Oh memories and how much weve progressed

[Polygon]

Ahaha you wouldn't want it, they're ridiculously slow by todays' standards :P

If you want to see some serious Voodoo-related badassery though, check out this maniac's thread: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=355053

Believe me i do one of my hobbies is building old state-of-the-art computers with old OS that can run old games FLAWLESSLY :P

[balakoth]

Believe me i do one of my hobbies is building old state-of-the-art computers with old OS that can run old games FLAWLESSLY :P

What is "flawlessly" tho Poly lol... Certain peoples definition of "flawless" can vary... GREATLY