MP 7,1 My 2019 Mac Pro upgrade journey/video

[rondocap]

Did a little video on my experience with upgrading a base 7.1 Mac Pro so far, let me know what you guys think!

summary of upgrades from base model:

1. Two w5700x mpx
2. Vega 64, now changed to a 6800 xt as third gpu with 11.4
beta
3. Promise j2I drive cage
4. 24 core w3265m cpu
5. 96gb ram
6. Sonnet pcie nvme card

so many possibilities!

 

[blackquartz]

Nice! Why why would you use two w5700x ?

 

[rondocap]

Nice! Why why would you use two w5700x ?

Scales pretty well in FCPX and Resolve with 2, and w5700x has more modern encoders for certain codecs vs the older Vega ii

ideally I think a 6800XT or dual mpx 6800/6900XT would be really good performance in the future

 

[blackquartz]

Scales pretty well in FCPX and Resolve with 2, and w5700x has more modern encoders for certain codecs vs the older Vega ii

ideally I think a 6800XT or dual mpx 6800/6900XT would be really good performance in the future

Seems like it is , only issue is where to find one

RX 6900 XT in Mac Pro 2019 vs other GPUs

real world speed test results for performance minded Macintosh users

barefeats.com

 

[rondocap]

Seems like it is , only issue is where to find one

RX 6900 XT in Mac Pro 2019 vs other GPUs

real world speed test results for performance minded Macintosh users

barefeats.com

Yeah, I guess if Apple does release the MPX modules they should be easier to get vs the PC AMD 6000 GPUs, as the W5700x is in stock, as are the other MPX modules, so we will see.

I am curious about the 6800xt/6900xt as FCPX and Resolve GPUs for video - and if they will really be that much more superior vs the Vega ii pro. I am sure for compute there are cases where the Vega is still superior, but from video rendering tests so far seems like the 6000 series is a nice jump up for sure.

 

[blackquartz]

Im also exited about a posible new MPX GPU, sincerely hope they launch soon...

 

[OkiRun]

I am excited maybe December Apple conference will show 7,1 MPX compatible new options.