New Mac Pro and REDRushes

[Chris Rogers]

Howdy,

I am rendering a bunch of R3D footage to DNxHD 185x. I am wondering if the new Mac are approved with REDRushes software and if anyone out there is using them and noticed if they are that much faster.

Right now I am using a 2x3GHz QuadCore Intel Xeon with 8 GB RAM.

I am thinking of buying a;

Two 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processors 16GB memory
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB

How much faster would this system be? And can I use REDRushes on it?

thx,
Chris

 

[David Rasberry]

According to BOxx labs test of their own workstations, a 4 core Nehalem performs about equally to the older 8 core version for rendering times.