Polygon also not sure what the chip has to do with it.. Apple uses the same chip I have too… Except I have more cores lol.
E5 Intel Xeon… But hey wahtever Makar is right, My higher spec machine cant out perform a lower spec machine.. because I some how use “consumer” products. You know, Asus, Intel, etc.. Apple sure doesnt use THOSE manufacturers.. do they.. ROFL..
Again hes going to lose this battle but not in his mind. He doesnt know Intel has an 8 core CPU, He doesnt know Apple doesnt provide monitors with their machine? (at a thousand piece.. woo hurray for 1440?) Cant win with people who refuse to accept
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.
Yes, I am aware that the same GPU core is used in the consumer and professional cards. But certain features are disabled in addition to the driver differences on the consumer models.
CUDA now completely sucks on the GeForce 600 series for example.
I guess theres no reason to buy a PC for gaming too then? I mean.. ThE new mac Pro uses Dual ATI Cards… You are gonna have to upgrade to Quadros and Aftermarket Quadros if you want to video editing/rendering efficently anyways.. Tack on another 2.5 k there, Oh what you dont need those to produce audio? Silly me
CUDA sucks on the last gen because kepler wasn’t designed with raw power in mind as fermi was.
The 580 still beats the 680 in, say, bitcoin mining.
The 680 beats the 580 in games because of optimization.
That is what i’m telling you. If you target something like this at pros that may not need dual VGAs, and you equip it with standard, money-wasting dual VGAs, you’re either dumb or you don’t care about your userbase at all.
If everything was optimized to make use of the raw power the gpus have, i’d shut up. But like this? no.
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.
