Thoughts on new Mac Pro and Millumin?
Hi All,
Has anyone also been imagining the possibilities? Would love to see AMD create drivers for their frame locked media wall cards which would fit in the new Mac Pro finally. I also heard mention of the Black Magic cards supporting framelock, which is one of my biggest concerns right now.
The new pro res module, 24-core option, and the dual duo gpus are all so interesting.
Btw I wonder does Millumin need to be windowed on the same graphics card as the output card in a multi card system? As is with eGPUs?
The black magic cards have many sdi outputs, but are they as capable as Milllumin requires for graphics heavy timelines?
More input and output cards need to start hitting the streets obviously, but the Mac Pro looks like a great platform.
Live camera back to screen with imperceptible delay will be an interesting day if it ever comes.
Has anyone also been imagining the possibilities? Would love to see AMD create drivers for their frame locked media wall cards which would fit in the new Mac Pro finally. I also heard mention of the Black Magic cards supporting framelock, which is one of my biggest concerns right now.
The new pro res module, 24-core option, and the dual duo gpus are all so interesting.
Btw I wonder does Millumin need to be windowed on the same graphics card as the output card in a multi card system? As is with eGPUs?
The black magic cards have many sdi outputs, but are they as capable as Milllumin requires for graphics heavy timelines?
More input and output cards need to start hitting the streets obviously, but the Mac Pro looks like a great platform.
Live camera back to screen with imperceptible delay will be an interesting day if it ever comes.
Comments
the high-end MacPro a beast (not like the MacPro 2013 on its time, I
mean here, this is best technology). Maybe the most powerful computer
that you could buy from a retailler.
- The entry-level MacPro model will still be highly customizable.
- Infinity Fabric Link looks like a very important technology : this
should allow to create a "virtual GPU" from multiple ones, so any
application could work with multiple GPU without rewritting its code (in
the same fashion you write an application that can be operated by
multiple CPU cores). This is huge !
- All the job made for high-end MacPro will probably benefit to eGPU approach that Apple also embraced.
- Output synchronization : we discussed about it with an Apple engineer,
and we've to recontact him after the WWDC to learn more
about this question. This may or may not be something useful, but I
guess he wouldn't say so if nothing was in the pipe ...
The new Mac Pro looks great but sadly, until Apple and NVIDIA sort out their beef, I won’t be buying and it’s also why my hackintosh is staying on High Sierra.