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MP 7,1 Mac Pro (2019) most popular configuration
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Planned for:
• CPU: 28-Core
• RAM: 32 GB (to be replaced by 1.5TB third party RAM)
• GPU: 1x AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
• SSD: 4TB
Went for:
• CPU: 16-Core
• RAM: 32 GB (to be replaced by 768GB third party RAM)
• GPU: 1x AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
• SSD: 2TB
How about you?
• CPU: 28-Core
• RAM: 32 GB (to be replaced by 1.5TB third party RAM)
• GPU: 1x AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
• SSD: 4TB
Went for:
• CPU: 16-Core
• RAM: 32 GB (to be replaced by 768GB third party RAM)
• GPU: 1x AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
• SSD: 2TB
How about you?
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1x - 24c 192GB 2TB 2xVegaII Single
3x - 16c 96GB 1TB 1xVegaII Duo Afterburner
2x - 28c 192GB 4TB 2xVegaII Duo
6x - XDR Display
edit to add: these aren't all for me (obviously?), I'm buying five for employees and one for myself.
3x - 16c 96GB 1TB 1xVegaII Duo Afterburner
2x - 28c 192GB 4TB 2xVegaII Duo
6x - XDR Display
edit to add: these aren't all for me (obviously?), I'm buying five for employees and one for myself.
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two 'Solo's because ??? ( expected thermals problems ? or need lots more TBv3 sockets. or expected non linear pricing for Duo ? )
Afterburner may have some memory buffer footprint.
Buying all of that sight unseen , no benchmarks or stability tests on your own workflow at all is a big pile bet.
Two Solo's will be my personal machine and yes for lots of TB3 ports.
Good point on Afterburner but that will be just six sticks so I can have another six dropped in if that becomes an issue.
Yeah, no where near the largest bet I've made, I'm fine with it. I worked with my team and we made comparisons to existing solutions we've worked with, Afterburner is a bit of a wildcard but I expect good things.
16c, base ram to be upgraded to 192gb, Single Vega II, 1TB SSD.
Afterburner is definitely gonna be added later, just need to split the costs a bit.
If I can manage to squeeze a Vega Duo into my 10k budget, I'll go for it, but I doubt it.
I do mostly editing and after effects - Afterburner instead of a second GPU is tempting, but at least 50% of footage that I edit is not Prores when I receive it... Afterburner might help with proxy generation though also, so it's tempting.
The SSD is also a bit of a questionmark, but I was fine with my 512gb on the trashcan till now.
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Afterburner is definitely gonna be added later, just need to split the costs a bit.
If I can manage to squeeze a Vega Duo into my 10k budget, I'll go for it, but I doubt it.
I do mostly editing and after effects - Afterburner instead of a second GPU is tempting, but at least 50% of footage that I edit is not Prores when I receive it... Afterburner might help with proxy generation though also, so it's tempting.
The SSD is also a bit of a questionmark, but I was fine with my 512gb on the trashcan till now.
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Do you think that there may be any variation in the available specs between when the machine was announced and now? It seems a little odd that Apple would enable 8TB of onboard storage in a Macbook Pro yet the Mac Pro tops out at 4TB. Do you think that the top tier SSD might be upped to match? If that IS the case and they up it, would they choose to announce such an 'upgrade' before it's available to order?
Damn guys now you made me reconsider a bit - as an editor - when it's between Vega Duo and afterburner, probably the Afterburner will be more bang for the buck... do you expect it to only work with ProRes RAW or all kinds of ProRes de- and encoding? I'm thinking to hold out on the Afterburner for now since it should be an easy upgrade lateron and wait for some benchmarks..
Im going to max out everything.
Hopefully it will make Safari snappier.
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I would check prices first - getting the Afterburner later as an 'upgrade' may work out more expensive then getting it with the system to start with. How much more expensive is the key.....
Hopefully it will make Safari snappier.
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I would check prices first - getting the Afterburner later as an 'upgrade' may work out more expensive then getting it with the system to start with. How much more expensive is the key.....
Aiming for 24-core (always feel the very top end isn't quite worth the premium and want twice as many cores as I currently have.)
64GB RAM (been getting along happily with 24 so that's a big jump for me)
At least 1TB HD (pending costs)
Would love dual Vega II Duos, but will probably have one for the time being – again depends on pricing.
No wheels!
64GB RAM (been getting along happily with 24 so that's a big jump for me)
At least 1TB HD (pending costs)
Would love dual Vega II Duos, but will probably have one for the time being – again depends on pricing.
No wheels!
4 more hours guy...I feel like a little boy before Christmas again!
In the email that was sent out to us here in Germany, the link led to a 6pm CET event. It makes sense, apple Keynotes for example usually begin at 7pm our time, and other preorders have started in these early evening hours as well. Much later wouldn't make a lot of sense either.
Maybe Apple will add speeding up the proxy generation process will get added later, but for now it probably won't do that. What it could do is make it so have bigger proxies (if the disk budge allows) and lower the need for the master copies. Big proxies have two problems slower to handle/load and big disk consumers. Afterburner solves the first. The second, it doesn't ( still take up the more space at rest. )
The time saved though could be in the "RAW to RAW" conversion (if available ) [ akin to uncompressing a *.zip file with zip and then recompressing it with bzip2 . Change metadata container but the content isn't being re-interpreted other than a different lossless compression scheme. ]
Outside of ProRes files, Afterburner isn't going to have deep impact. That includes creating them in the first place in most situations. ( corner cases like tethered Mac video capture it could help if that is how the video is first captured to a "at rest" storage format. )
45 minutes guys... can you believe, all these years...