Dragon + Mac Pro

[Medavoym]

Performance from the card is going to be way better from the older macPro tower.

Would a Hackintosh solve both problems?


- it can take a RRX card inside, using its absolute full potential

- you can also use Thunderbolt (the lack of it on the older Mac Pro being the major disadvantage)

- not to mention a Hackintosh is much cheaper than both.


Are people generally staying away from Hackintoshes? I understand the potential problems when upgrading etc.
But if you only run the important softwares on it - Avid/FCPx/DaVinci/Redcine etc - not a myriad of other programs - it seems to be a worthy option, me thinks.

 

[Michael Kowalczyk]

I have a Hackintosh with 2 RED Rocket X's in it and get around 80-85fps with 5K footage, 55-60fps 6K. I expect these numbers to jump when I get my hands on the new Rocket firmware....

 

[C.H.Haskell]

Not sure what 20013 model mac pro this is but i was just told

12 fps in6k rendering and 30p playback

Would love to see some more numbers like this. With my workflow, I am leaning towards a trashcan mac (instead of a rocketX) based on my current performance and the ability to cut 4k native R3Ds using my laptop (MBr) with FCPX is nothing short of F&*(ing magic.

Love to see more numbers like the ones I posted above cause I think thats what the OP was hoping to see from this thread. Cheers.

 

[Brian Merlen]

I want to know about full debayer encodes with a variety of codecs/aspect ratios on the nMP...that is what interests me the most, full debayer encoding speeds