Mac Pro to Get 6-Core Xeon Gulftown Processor in 2010?

[PeterQVenkman]

I've seen people mention Maya and Maxwell Render, what else is there?

After Effects, other 3d apps (Cinema 4d, Blender), some video compressors (HandBrake). Now that I think about it, there aren't many in the design field that really take advantage.

I'm sure many scientific and math programs are multi-core.

When I run Compressor it doesn't appear to be taking advantage of all 8 cores.

Use Apple QMaster (comes with FC Stuido) to set up multi-core rendering on a Mac Pro:

http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_compressor_multi-processor.html

 

[albyrne5]

Logic Studio

Does anyone know anything about when Logic Studio will be re-worked to give (better) support to multiple cores? It seems to me that with all the plug-ins and multiple tracks that this would be a sure-fire candidate for improvement if it gave better support to Multiple Cores, HT, SL, GC, etc.

Anyone know anything?

 

[DMann]

Does anyone know anything about when Logic Studio will be re-worked to give (better) support to multiple cores? It seems to me that with all the plug-ins and multiple tracks that this would be a sure-fire candidate for improvement if it gave better support to Multiple Cores, HT, SL, GC, etc.

Anyone know anything?

Rumor has it, Q3 2010.

 

[Nadav35]

********! Lies!!! Stop Spreading Bs That Isn't True!

Rumor has it, Q3 2010.

NO MY FRIEND, TRY IN 2011..

SCREW RUMORS!!!


STRANGE, NO PC RUMOR SITES EXIST, BUT APPLE RUMOR SITES??

 

[iMacmatician]

NO MY FRIEND, TRY IN 2011..

SCREW RUMORS!!!


STRANGE, NO PC RUMOR SITES EXIST, BUT APPLE RUMOR SITES??

Is your Caps Lock key stuck?

 

[DMann]

NO MY FRIEND, TRY IN 2011..

SCREW RUMORS!!!


STRANGE, NO PC RUMOR SITES EXIST, BUT APPLE RUMOR SITES??

With the i9s launching in Q2, 2010, a Q3 update is not all that unreasonable.

Screw CAPS!!!!!!

 

[ma2ha3]

i want one too, but i probably cannot afford it. i think it will cost so much, 35nm node yield and throughput is so low now. Very few silicon will reach the market, that i am sure,

 

[AidenShaw]

There are many factors here but you will almost always get better through put with SMT on modern processors.

For completeness, here's a discussion on a Logic Pro board about HT seriously degrading Logic's performance.

http://www.gearspace.com/board/4898397-post300.html

I have the dual Quad 2.93 Nehalem Mac Pro, and I got 97 tracks with hyper threading turned off. But when I had hyper threading on I just got 68 tracks. I really big difference of 29 tracks!
Mathias //

The guy also posted instructions on how to turn HT off on the Mac Pro.

http://www.gearspace.com/board/4911885-post313.html

Also I was just thinking and people having trouble with HT and some audio applications might want to try installing the Processor.prefPane from the XCode tools developer kit (from Apple) and then turning off every-other CPU core. That might fix it! In fact I betcha it does - if it lists 16 cores on an Octad and 8 on a quad.

Download it from here: Apple Developer Connection - Developer Tools and Technologies - Developer Tools

Install,
Then navigate to Macintosh HD/Developer/Extras/PreferencePanes/
Double-click on the Processor.prefPane and answer Yes when it asks you to install.

Note: If it doesn't install properly just copy Processor.prefPane manually into your
Macintosh HD/System/Library/PreferencePanes folder.


Open System Preferences,
Click Processors,
Turn off all even numbered cores.
Then just use your pro-tools (or other HT incompatible application) normally.