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I'm guessing you can get (multiple) good nvidia cards to match apple's afterburner cards
by sdan 6y ago
I'm guessing you can get (multiple) good nvidia cards to match apple's afterburner cards
- BooneJS 6y agoProbably not for the same power envelope.
- numpad0 6y agoDoubt it. FPGA is almost guaranteed worse in performance/watt and performance/dollar compared to ASIC. Only in cases where reprogramming capability or lack of initial cost of production make sense FPGA is used.
- SllX 6y agoWell here’s the relevant specs for what it does: > Compatible with Mac Pro (current generation) PCI Express x16 card > Accelerates ProRes and ProRes RAW codec in Final Cut Pro X, QuickTime Player X, and supported third-party applications > Supports playback of up to 6 streams of 8K ProRes RAW or up to 23 streams of 4K ProRes RAW So if there’s an NVIDIA card that does all that, great, happy to hear it. I heard Adobe Premiere was recently updated to support the Afterburner as well so hopefully it also works with NVIDIA’s equivalent.
- numpad0 6y agoActually, NVIDIA driver for current version of macOS don’t exist. Like, there are only two GPU manufacturers left in the world, and requisite macOS driver for the bigger and better one, flat out don’t exist.
- SllX 6y agoIf somebody is willing to prove that they can build equivalent hardware to this monster for only $5K, I am willing to overlook the operating system entirely.