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What does this do that a much cheaper computer doesn't?
by AndrewKemendo 6y ago
What does this do that a much cheaper computer doesn't?
- TimTheTinker 6y agoMassive realtime video renders (think multiple simultaneous 8k in real time), compositing, scene rendering/animating, transcoding. Or computations on extremely large scientific datasets.
- ponker 6y agoYou are color grading a $200 million movie and want to apply various tweaks to the video and see the effect in real time. With a regular PC you have to render and then view... with something like this you could render in real time at 8k.
- AndrewKemendo 6y agoIn which case 50k seems like a pretty reasonable price. It's surprising that there are enough of those kinds of use cases to justify an entire production of a product like this. Something about the depth of certain markets being way bigger than they appear.
- TimTheTinker 6y agoThere are a lot of production studios around the world, of which only a fraction produce movies that end up in theaters or sold on Amazon or iTunes.
- ponker 6y agoEvery YouTube ad you’ve seen has a client who at least wants their ads to look as good as a James Cameron movie.
- philistine 6y agoFast