This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] One card to rule them all?

I was going to advocate the 4000 as well - I have one in my symphony (it was actually a spare) and I wouldn't say symphony's any better, but I don't know whether AE is Cuda aware or not, but I get dramatically faster AE renders on the symphony with a 4000 (and an older MAC CPU!) that on the symphony with a GT120 (and newer CPU.)

I have a pair of GTX285 I bought off ebay - I believe they're the PC version flashed over to Mac - but I'm not sure. They work good in an expansion chassis forResolve and were much cheaper than a pair of 4000s! You should be able to use one in the mac even though it's double -wide. The bottom slot in the Mac Pro

Haven't had much trouble with either, once you get the current firmware and drivers loaded correctly.

I also had a 4800 - which was good, but pricey - I sold it in order to buy the two 285s. I'm not sure what the 4800 does that makes it so expensive. The pair of 285s work great.

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On Jan 9, 2012, at 4:27 PM, namyrb wrote:

> You don't really have much to choose from. The quadro 4000 is the only non
> legacy card that nvidia has available for Mac right now.
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> On Monday, January 9, 2012, Tim McLaughlin <mcltim.156@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks Scott.
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>> I've read in some of the forums that the 4000 does not play well with AE
>> when the GPU's are enabled - lots of crashing.
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>> Supposedly Lion fixed this bit of nastiness.
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>> Have you experienced any issues like this?
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>> --
>> Tim McLaughlin
>> Final Cut and Avid Editor
>> http://vimeo.com/mcltim
>> www.mcltim.com
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>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:53 PM, editblog <editblog@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> I've had great luck with a Matrox MXO2 Mini and NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for
>>> Mac. Add in the MAX H264 encode acceleration and it's been a great little
>>> tool for monitoring out of all these applications (except FCPX that is).
>>>
>>> Premiere Pro hardware support is still iffy overall but I've had better
>>> luck with the Matrox in PPro than my AJA Kona LHe. But the Kona 3 is a
>>> great card too and PPro hardware support should get better.
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>>> The CUDA support of the NVIDIA means great PPro support for Mercury
>>> Playback Engine as well as some good realtime performance in Resolve of
>>> need be. I haven't had any problems with Avid and the Quadro 4000 either.
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
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