I’m trying to figure out, how to get better performance for Motion & Adobe after effects. I ordered my Mac pro with 16 Cores and have upgraded to 96 gigs of RAM, I’m running a NVMe RAID where I am seeing incredibly high read write speeds, nothing less than double what the internal SSD has. However, I went with the base model MPX, as I really wasn’t sure what the value proposition would be with the other cards, and the ability to get other graphics cards that are on the market. Looking forward to everyone’s feedback in guidance.
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MP 7,1 Graphic Cards 7,1 MP. For Motion and After Effects
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From what I understand, Adobe apps are more reliant on the CPU. With 16 cores, plenty of RAM, and fast SSDs, you should be in good shape. I think Apple Motion relies more on the GPU. Your Radeon 580 probably won't help much; I think you should consider the forthcoming W5700 when it's released; it seems like an overall better option than even the Vega II because of its newer architecture.
After Effects is poorly coded for multiprocessing. For some reason they removed the parallel rendering feature about 5 years ago and never replaced it.
You could look into Render Garden to speed things up - I bought it last Black Friday and I'm looking forward to setting it up on my new 16 core MP.
You could look into Render Garden to speed things up - I bought it last Black Friday and I'm looking forward to setting it up on my new 16 core MP.
