It's a bit confusing the GPU acceleration stuff. I mean, not confusing, just not documented at all. From what I get, the video cards supported on Mac are the ones in the TrashCan MacPro and a couple of high iMacs. Now I don't assume Avid will support all the cards out there, but if they were to comply to some CUDA acceleration it would be great. Or at least tell us what exactly is accelerated on the Mac side.
The card I put in my MP is the "desktop" version of the one in the TrashCan MacPro, so I could get it to work... if it's any interesting.
I went for the 3.46 chip after some extensive research. And they seem fine. Apple never sold such a beast, but I've been monitoring mine closely and it behaved perfect, including during the heatwave episode we've had here - and I had no AC in my edit suite.
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Not really true about the GPU on 8.4/Yosemite. Only a few GPUs are supported so far for "acceleration" on the Mac in 8.4. It's still not at the level of acceleration you see in other NLEs. Not using OpenCL or CUDA to do any heavy lifting. You would only notice anything with very specific tasks.
I also upgraded a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 from 2 x Quad Core 2.6GHZ to 2 x Hex Core 2.93 GHZ. Best move I ever made. For less than 500 bucks, I got a machine that benches close to a trash can Mac Pro but way more flexible. Got to keep my PCIe cards (RAID, AJA Kona, PCIe SSD, Nvidia 680h. I did not go to dual 3.46 over concerns about power consumption at heavy CPU use. With all PCIe slots filled and a power hungry GPU it can approach the rated spec on the PSU. Did Apple ever sell a machine with dual 3.46 Hexcore Westmeres?
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