I have a couple thunderbolt promise pegasus arrays and I gotta say they are wicked fast. Thunderbolt is great technology - not sure why some folks are calling it bunk.
I have a couple thunderbolt promise pegasus arrays and I gotta say they are wicked fast. Thunderbolt is great technology - not sure why some folks are calling it bunk.
http://www.dv247.com/news/Pro%20Tool...%20Avid/133280
Boom.
Thunderbolt is external PCI-E, it's basically NO different to having an internal PCI-E card.
Just for comparison a 1x PCI-E 3.0 card has a theoretical throughput of 980MB/s; Thunderbolt is 10Gbit/s, aka 1.25GB/s.
The RME HDSPe AIO, a £400+ DAW card is only a 1x PCI-E 1.1, which means 250MB/s of bandwidth (and 2.5GT/s vs Thunderbolt's 8GT/s).
To say that Thunderbolt isn't capable of doing everything PCI-E can is just bollocks. And it doesn't even remotely compare to USB.
With that said, don't be a moron and buy a Mac Pro; buy a PC case, a Xeon bundle, and some RAM. Job done for a fifth of the price.
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You'll be forking out a ton for dual workstation graphics cards too.
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That's not the base configuration, that's just an additional configuration option. Specifically, that configuration is dual W9000s which are £3k a pop. It's almost certain that the base model will ship with the £500 V7900.
And you can be damn sure that the upgrade to the W9000s will be far, far more than their OEM cost.
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Last edited by makar1; 06-11-2013 at 02:15 PM.
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The fact that at the keynote, they specifically stated that you could "configure the Mac Pro with up to 4096 stream processors", which is 2x W9000s.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1593470I re-watched the stream just to make sure I didn't get it wrong.
Phil said, UP TO. Did not say that was the base configuration graphics, but the top.
There will be much lower, maybe even a single card.
The biggest issue I see is that we're back to waiting for apple to give us the upgrade graphic packages in order to get a new card, I was getting used to popping any PC card in.
Are you ever going to stop fucking arguing, makar?
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No
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How would you describe your initial posts to the thread then?
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