nVidia Quadro 4000 mac TESTS? anyone?

[Jeff Kilgroe]

No problem, Philipe.

Anyway guys, I'll have some comparative benchmarks for the GTX285 and Quadro4000 under Resolve here soon. I bit the bullet and ordered Resolve finally and will get it up and running this week. Probably won't have much in benchmarks right away -- hopefully next weekend. Have some family coming in from out of town and other things that will take up time. I wish I could say I'm working, but it's pretty slow around here right now... Oh well.

 

[Jim Geduldick]

Hey all have been messing with the Quadro 4000 on new Mac Pro 2010 .
Here is the deal no OSX support for 10 bit monitors.
The 4000 Mac edition currently is not 10 bit capable. That I have confirmed.
Bummed but everyone should also hit up Nvidia and Apple emails to get them on this support.
Checking performance with Storm,Nuke,Resolve and Cinema4D all seem extremley perky but stacking up against my GTX285 Id kill to have a GTX580 for Mac .

 

[Alexander Ibrahim]

Hey all have been messing with the Quadro 4000 on new Mac Pro 2010 .
Here is the deal no OSX support for 10 bit monitors.
The 4000 Mac edition currently is not 10 bit capable. That I have confirmed.
Bummed but everyone should also hit up Nvidia and Apple emails to get them on this support.
Checking performance with Storm,Nuke,Resolve and Cinema4D all seem extremley perky but stacking up against my GTX285 Id kill to have a GTX580 for Mac .

You mean for direct display by the graphics card right?

I don't think that any graphics card supports 10 bit display on OS X.

I suspect that its a limitation of 10.6 and older... but would be happy to learn different.

In any case this isn't directly relevant to me... I get my 10 bit display via video cards. (i.e. AJA or Black Magic)

 

[Dave Blackham]

Im told by BM that the Quadro 4800 and 4000 are both virtually the same for normal grading in Resolve but for Blur and rotate the 4800 is still faster by about 20%.

Are you guys saying the 285 is faster or prefered over the 4800 ?

 

[alexjentz]

Dream Combo

Dream Combo

Wouldnt this be great:

-a PC GTX 580 modded so that it runs smoothly on a Mac Pro
-not using a second Graphics Card, since the 580 is fast enough
-Decklink Card
-RED Rocket
-RAID HBA

seems like the best Config you could do in a not Hackintosh ?

anyone got a GTX 580 running in a Mac Pro ?

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

FWIW, Quadro 4000 Mac cards are now selling for the same price as the PC version.

Provantage.com has them for under $770, so does Amazon.com

 

[Eric Santiago]

FWIW, Quadro 4000 Mac cards are now selling for the same price as the PC version.

Provantage.com has them for under $770, so does Amazon.com

Were currently having issues with the 4000 in our new 12core.
Seems to hang and crash when using any sort of energy saver option.
The other problem is were trying to fit this into a dual 30 display option shared by another Mac Pro using a Gefen 2X2 DVIDL Switcher.
The new 4000 has a single large display port and a DVI link.
Have to use few cable/convertors to get it to play nice with the above set-up.
Now as far as After Effects CS5, REDCine X and Storm, the card works great

 

[Peter Chamberlain]

I recommend to turn off energy saver if you find that improves stability.
Peter

 

[Eric Santiago]

I recommend to turn off energy saver if you find that improves stability.
Peter

I had it off for a few weeks. same problem.
Took out the RED Rocket and after a few days, found the crashes are less but still there.
Currently took (Quadro) it out and put back ATI/AMD 5870.
No crashes so far (day two) and After Effects dont cause crashes.
However this card does the awful black frame during openGL uses in AE
Were going to try the Quadro on another 12-core for testing.
Ill keep you all posted.

 

[Eric Santiago]

Update...

Update...

I talked to PNY (mfg of Nvidia Quadro card).
They helped me get this card running again and so far so good.
I have it installed in the same Mac Pro 2.93 with 32GB RAM.
Just the RED Rocket into a BOB then RED CineX (both 351 and 356 but this dont work with card).
Im not going to install anything like Adobe, Avid or FCS for now.
Ill test this baby for a week with RED CineX and see what happens.
Screen saver is on so I can try and replicate original problem.
The current config is 10.6.6 with the latest Nvidia drivers 256.01.00f03v5.
The steps this time around was to re-install OS with original ATI 5870 first.
Upgrade to 10.6.6.
Then install Nvidia drivers.
Remove ATI and replace with Quadro.
So far its been great.
I know I did the same steps when I first got the card but the fact that I had everything (mentioned above) installed on this system before, I couldnt pin-point the problem.

Crossing fingers