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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

New Mac Pro Configuration Recommendations

Jeff Kilgroe said:
AMD ThreadRipper 3960X - 24 core
Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Extreme Motherboard
8 x 32GB Corsair DDR4 3600MHz (256GB total)
2 x RTX 2080 TI GPUs
2 x 2TB M.2 Nvme SSDs
A few other bits and bobs and liquid cooling setup for the CPU.

I’m right at $10K all in. ...A bit under half what the equivalent Mac Pro would cost.
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It would be interesting to compare RT playback and render times with this setup.

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Note: that's the model with feet, not with $400 wheel set, so a bit underspec.
 
Hello, newish here... been lurking for 6 months. Right now I edit 50+ hours a week and have been severely hampered by my current iMac with my puny Sony 8 Bit footage Heavily taxing the system. I will be purchasing a RED Komodo as soon as its announced and that will be my A cam. Actually I will probably buy 2. In preparation for that I will be buying a new Mac Pro this week. I'd like to have the fastest machine possible to edit footage from that camera but also I don't want to needlessly overspend. What do you guys think about this setup for editing RED Komodo footage is this enough or not enough? Glad to make my first post boys. ***Any extra money I have saved for the Mac Pro piggy bank will be in savings for the DSMC3***

Mac Pro 7.1

16 core
4TB SSD
Two Radeon Pro Vega II with 32GB of HBM2 memory each (is this overkill for Komodo?)
6K display (unsure if i need the nano coating?)
 
I too am not GPU savvy. I would appreciate any comments on a ‘sweet spot’ with regards to the GPU selection - if possible including the soon to be released options. This GPU ‘sweet spot’ would likely tie in with the 16 Core machine with 96G RAM. I accept that a max out of 2 duo’s may give the best result - but with a hefty price tag. Is there a good compromise in there somewhere? My application which I guess would be fairly standard would be 4k/8k clips on a 4K timeline in Resolve. Thanks in advance for any input.
 
5 streams of 8k r3d on a final cut pro timeline with real time playback!!! i’m still in Awe of this machine!!!!
 
Mark Andersen said:
Your "Preferred" Config is exactly what I am ordering
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Yeah, it's a bit of money up front, but I think that's a well rounded workhorse for years to come.

My current Mac Pro is from 2009 and it still works really great for most of today's tasks. It's got a Vega Frontier 16GB card and never complains in Resolve or doing weekend 3D renders with all cores maxed. A pure joy for what it is.

And sometimes it's the small things: having all cores maxed on a render and still being able to use the computer and OS for light browsing or productivity work without the mouse ever stuttering or locking up once.

PS. Updated what I think is the cheapest sensible option, which I now think is to wait for the Radeon Pro W5700X in the hope of it coming in around $800 for a price of $8499.
 
Michael Tiemann said:
One of the early review guys responded to my question on Twitter. Right now afterburner is ONLY for ProRes RAW, and only implemented within FCPX and other Apple programs. They do say it will be supported by other 3rd party apps (Resolve? Premiere?). But I strongly suspect ONLY for ProRes RAW, which means we'd need RED to support a new codec in their cameras to get afterburner benefits. Or perhaps there's a lightweight way to wrap R3D media in a ProRes RAW wrapper--I don't know. But the reviewers who have said anything about R3D so far have only demonstrated that the 28-core Xeon processor is capable of transcoding from RED's 8K RAW to some H.264-ish format in slightly better than realtime (a 5:00 minute clip in 4:20). Afterburner is doing nothing in that case (AFAIK).
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Thats weird when the presented the new Mac there was a RED section if I'm correct.
 
Karim D. Ghantous said:
All that RAM?? Dear lord! You really need all that? LOL
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Yes. I’ve had 256GB in my primary Resolve box for the last 5 years and it’s a dual 10-core and for complex renders and data sets I can use it all. I say it’s my Resolve box and that is the system I primarily run Resolve on, but it is used for other heavy lifting as well. Very heavy lifting in some scenarios that have nothing to do with editing, post production, etc..

As for the 6K display, you need to know how to clean it:

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/12/10/apple-pro-display-xdr-cleaning-cloth/
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At least they include it with the screen. And it’s only for the nano textured premium version of the screen. Now if you want to not prop the screen up against your Mac Pro or the wall in order to use it, they want to charge $1K for a stand. That said, the AmazonBasics heavy duty monitor arm is a 100X better solution and is < $80. It’s tough enough to mount iMac Pro workstations, which are bigger and a lot heavier than the new 6K display.
 
What do you think of buying the following configuration and replace & sell parts like CPU, RAM and SSD

Replace & Sell
- 8-Core CPU
- 32GB RAM
- 256GB SSD

Buy
- 28-Core CPU W-3275 non M
- 4x 32GB RAM for 128GB
- 1TB SSD

This could safe us a huge amount of money we could spend on a XDR Display..

Do you think changing parts like these would work? We own pretty powerful Hackintosh computers already but kinda feel sick of some bugs and issues while video editing our 8K R3D footage.


MAC PRO 7,1 PROCESSOR OPTIONS

These are the LGA3647 processors available in the Mac Pro 7,1. They were announced by Intel in June at the same time as the WWDC launch of the Mac Pro, but so far no one has seen them in the wild.

• W-3223, 8 cores $749

• W-3235, 12 cores:: $1398

• W-3245, 16 cores: $1999

• W-3265M, 24 cores: $6353

• W-3275M, 28 cores: $7453

Previous generation Xeon W workstation processors used the underpowered single-CPU LGA2066 socket. These new Xeon-W CPUs are similar to the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and use the same #LGA3647 socket.

The models with the "M" suffix can address two terrabytes of memory. Intel charges $3000 for internally connecting the one extra address line needed. The prices for the non-M models are $3349 and $4449.

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2400/intel-rolls-out-cascade-lake-xeon-w-processors/

Last October Intel released the 28-core Xeon W-3175X processor for the LGA3647 socket at a price of $2999. The new Xeon W-3275 costs $4449 and has similar specs.

RAM options:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/owc/apple-mac-pro/2019
 
Not sure I would go there with all the colorful plumbing, but OWC memory prices are sure enticing and easy to install. The 64 GB modules are about half of what Apple charges.
 
Mark Andersen said:
Jacob has his own machine, I’m a neighbor of his, I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
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Would love to know more about RCX and Resolve performance numbers. I realize that Apple is promoting FCPX (all people who got pre-release machine talk specifics only about Apple SW or codecs running on Apple HW). I'm looking for specifics about Resolve and where performance lands at 8k with respect to 16, 24, and 28 core machines with single, dual, and/or duo GPUs.
 
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