This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] New Mac Pro

Monday, June 10, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] New Mac Pro

GPU is not addressed yet. Maybe a hybrid of on board chipset (laptop)? The
bare card (no PCI bracket, custom cooling) is installed in factory? No info.

OpenCL is great but as far as I understand it, the acceleration benefit
does not go as deep as platform specific solutionw like CUDA.

Dom Q. Silverio

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Philip Hodgetts <
philip@intelligentassistance.com> wrote:

> CUDA is a proprietary direct-to-card language for NVIDIA. It cannot run on
> any other platform.
>
> OTOH, OpenCL provides the same benefit but is platform independent. Adobe
> have been increasing their OpenCL support over recent releases.
>
> Philip
>
>
> On Jun 10, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Jeff Kreines @ Kinetta <jeff@kinetta.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What about the AMD GPUs vs. nVidia? Does AMD do Cuda? Will Resolve run
> on AMD? This might be an incredibly dumb move. Also, a stackable design
> would have been more elegant, so one could put a PCI chassis below the
> cylinder. Cylinders aren't the best shape for dealing with rectangular
> things like drives and PCI cards.
> >
> > Cuteness trumps functionality.
> >
> > Jeff Kreines
> > Kinetta
> > jeff@kinetta.com
> > kinetta.com
> >
> > On Jun 10, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Jeff Sengpiehl <jeff@chainsawedit.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Fast but no slots. It's the blue and white g3 all over again.
> >>
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