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MP 7,1 Mac Pro review - A photographer and Videographers' perspective

darthaddie

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Hi everyone,

Just blogged a short review of the new Mac Pro 2019. This is aimed at reviewing performance from a photographers/Videographers perspective. Though I must say, there were some nice surprises while testing this beast out.

www.aditya.photos

The Mac Pro - A Beast... with the right configuration — Addie Agarwal

Hi, A little background for the sake of context: I am a full time photographer and videographer by profession. Me and my wife work together along with a few freelancers who we work with on large projects. We do around 275+ shoots a year which range from Weddings, Portraits, Headshots and Corpor
www.aditya.photos www.aditya.photos

This is not to promote or generate a following, but just to share my experience with a little better understanding of this machine.

Thanks for reading!
 
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darthaddie said:
Hi everyone,

Just blogged a short review of the new Mac Pro 2019. This is aimed at reviewing performance from a photographers/Videographers perspective. Though I must say, there were some nice surprises while testing this beast out.

www.aditya.photos

The Mac Pro - A Beast... with the right configuration — Addie Agarwal

Hi, A little background for the sake of context: I am a full time photographer and videographer by profession. Me and my wife work together along with a few freelancers who we work with on large projects. We do around 275+ shoots a year which range from Weddings, Portraits, Headshots and Corpor
www.aditya.photos www.aditya.photos

This is not to promote or generate a following, but just to share my experience with a little better understanding of this machine.

Thanks for reading!
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A credible report, and appears to be a very honest review of the issues. Thank you. 👍 :)

I especially was interested in the MP7,1 providing additional use while there was background work being done; exporting etc.
 
Why do you think your iMac couldn't handle multi tasking while rendering? Is it only because of more cores and RAM in Mac Pro?
 
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Why do you think your iMac couldn't handle multi tasking while rendering? Is it only because of more cores and RAM in Mac Pro?
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Did you read his review? Here's what he said...

darthaddie said:
I edited almost 100k images and 30TB of Videos on the iMac. Shortly after that I had to add a few TB3 drives for editing and backup. Ports grew out faster than I thought. During exports, I had to stop working on the computer ended up wasting a lot of production hours. When I started a large Lightroom export or a Wedding Video export on FCP X, I had to stop working on other things since the iMac was totally unresponsive.
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No, not specifically. Just that it couldn't handle the required workload.
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And I wanted to know if he knows why. Cause I have 2019 iMac with i9 on way.

Is it because of thermal constrains? Did his iMac throttle under such load? Or is it because of more RAM? Or just simply number of cores?

I am photographer also and work with hundreds of RAW files as well but even on my current iMac (i5-7600K) I am able to export RAWs and watch movie in VLC at the same time (although with significant time penalty).
 
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And I wanted to know if he knows why. Cause I have 2019 iMac with i9 on way.

Is it because of thermal constrains? Did his iMac throttle under such load? Or is it because of more RAM? Or just simply number of cores?

I am photographer also and work with hundreds of RAW files as well but even on my current iMac (i5-7600K) I am able to export RAWs and watch movie in VLC at the same time (although with significant time penalty).
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Gotcha
 
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Why do you think your iMac couldn't handle multi tasking while rendering? Is it only because of more cores and RAM in Mac Pro?
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hey. I guess the iMac didn’t handle the loads mostly due to its slow subsystem. Like dual channel memory, limited memory bandwidth, and probably the i9 is not so good at handling multiple stress loads. This is true because when I had built my gaming PC, the 7900x could easily handle multiple stress loads but the i8700k could not. Even though both of them were pretty high end.

It was certainly not the cores or the RAM. Specially not the RAM. Since I wasn’t using more than 45gb out of the 64. There was no pagefile happening.

In case of my Mac Pro even when the 12 cores are fully under load the system is still responsive enough to do other things. In my review when I ran FCP and Lightroom export together, the system had enough juice to let me work on email, web and file transfers. That’s what surprised me the most.

The iMac is a great machine. Don’t get me wrong. It’s just a little underpowered for me as I hate sitting and waiting for exports to get over.

yesterday I tried creating a panorama of 37 50MP images out of RAW files. While Lightroom was going at this only 2 cores were being used as in with my iMac. But the iMac was totally unresponsive and the Mac Pro didn’t sweat. This clarifies that there is something beyond sheer core count at play.
 
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hey. I guess the iMac didn’t handle the loads mostly due to its slow subsystem. Like dual channel memory, limited memory bandwidth, and probably the i9 is not so good at handling multiple stress loads. This is true because when I had built my gaming PC, the 7900x could easily handle multiple stress loads but the i8700k could not. Even though both of them were pretty high end.

It was certainly not the cores or the RAM. Specially not the RAM. Since I wasn’t using more than 45gb out of the 64. There was no pagefile happening.

In case of my Mac Pro even when the 12 cores are fully under load the system is still responsive enough to do other things. In my review when I ran FCP and Lightroom export together, the system had enough juice to let me work on email, web and file transfers. That’s what surprised me the most.

The iMac is a great machine. Don’t get me wrong. It’s just a little underpowered for me as I hate sitting and waiting for exports to get over.

yesterday I tried creating a panorama of 37 50MP images out of RAW files. While Lightroom was going at this only 2 cores were being used as in with my iMac. But the iMac was totally unresponsive and the Mac Pro didn’t sweat. This clarifies that there is something beyond sheer core count at play.
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Thanks for your vast reply. I wonder how it will turn out for me. I hate waiting too😄.
 
What I realised today is there are other ways to do things! I use the Mac Pro 2019 with the XDR display and speedily comparing photos in Lightroom is a pain so slow! I like to go quickly...next, next, next, reject, reject, keep, keep, keep, etc so as to whittle the rubbish shots out and keep the ones I want quickly. Lightroom is unable to do this on a high res monitor BUT simply start the process with Adobe Bridge and compare and reject them using that. its INSTANT and lightening quick then once done important the remaining files into Lightroom. Brilliant and save time
 
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What I realised today is there are other ways to do things! I use the Mac Pro 2019 with the XDR display and speedily comparing photos in Lightroom is a pain so slow! I like to go quickly...next, next, next, reject, reject, keep, keep, keep, etc so as to whittle the rubbish shots out and keep the ones I want quickly. Lightroom is unable to do this on a high res monitor BUT simply start the process with Adobe Bridge and compare and reject them using that. its INSTANT and lightening quick then once done important the remaining files into Lightroom. Brilliant and save time
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That does sound like a plan. Thanks for the tip. Lightroom is stupid slow at that.
 
Philllllip said:
What I realised today is there are other ways to do things! I use the Mac Pro 2019 with the XDR display and speedily comparing photos in Lightroom is a pain so slow! I like to go quickly...next, next, next, reject, reject, keep, keep, keep, etc so as to whittle the rubbish shots out and keep the ones I want quickly. Lightroom is unable to do this on a high res monitor BUT simply start the process with Adobe Bridge and compare and reject them using that. its INSTANT and lightening quick then once done important the remaining files into Lightroom. Brilliant and save time
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Makes you wonder why they can’t do that in Lightroom
 
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I am going to update my post but here is a snippet with RAM change to a Single capacity modules as opposed to mixed. As confirmed in other threads, there is a massive boost.


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I am going to update my post but here is a snippet with RAM change to a Single capacity modules as opposed to mixed. As confirmed in other threads, there is a massive boost.


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Nice, I have similar result here
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