- #VIDEO CARD FOR 2008 MAC PRO 1080P#
- #VIDEO CARD FOR 2008 MAC PRO PRO#
- #VIDEO CARD FOR 2008 MAC PRO PC#
- #VIDEO CARD FOR 2008 MAC PRO PROFESSIONAL#
#VIDEO CARD FOR 2008 MAC PRO PRO#
RAM Flashed by Create Pro to work with Apple Mac Pro computers Powerful Mac GPU with OpenCL accelerationĬompatble with 2008/2009/2010/2012 Mac Pro systems. So I had a chat with Rich at Create Pro to see if upgrading my graphics card might help and he recommended an AMD R9 280X 3GB card which they do a special Mac compatible version of with a custom flashed ROM. My MBP is newer and faster but I prefer to do the editing on the MP because it is a more robust machine and use the MBP in a pinch.Recently, I have been suffering some screen re-draw issues on my Pro Tools computer - a Mid 2010 Mac Pro which had an ATI Radeon HD5770 1024MB graphics card in it. Both the MP and the MBP are running with the current OS. The applications are on a SSD while the videos are on a couple hard drives and some backup drives. My Mac Pro is used strictly for video editing. If you have a MacBook Pro, say, there may be a way to link them and speed up the processing. The other thing I've heard of (never tried it), is connecting two computers together.
#VIDEO CARD FOR 2008 MAC PRO PC#
Sure it would be nice to have it work faster but I'm okay with it.ĭon't get a "flashed" PC card. The 3,1 with the Radeon card runs X and Motion just fine and rendering is okay. My old card was about 85% plugged with lint. Speaking of graphics cards, be sure to vacuum out the lint in the cooling fins every once in a while. I think the graphics card that works in the 3,1 will also work in the next newer Mac, and maybe other models, so maybe one thing you could do is check what MPs it works in and if it will work in newer models just buy a better graphics card and later when you sell the machine just take it out. One of the problems with the 3,1 is that the memory is relatively expensive where as the next iteration the memory is so much cheaper.
#VIDEO CARD FOR 2008 MAC PRO PROFESSIONAL#
It can really help give the video more of a professional look. Motion don't have a "home" at DVinfo so there is no place to talk about it but it is a really good application for effects and things like titles.
Lately I've been working with "Motion 5" and my system works perfectly fine with it. This is probably because the graphics card was the card doing most of the work. Later I picked up a 3,1 (early '08) and moved the card over to it and, although it had less memory than the 1,1, it worked fine there, too, but not a huge improvement. I went from a MP 1,1 that I put a Radeon HD 5770 card in and it worked okay for FCPX. Graphics Card: This is where one gets a good improvement. Rob - With regard to the question of "whether it's worth it," the answer would depend on a few things and this is what I'd consider: It should also make FCPX pretty snappy too (just FYI I now use FCPX all the time since it usually saves me several hours over Premiere Pro on every project). So, if you're looking for a quick fix to make the machine usable in Premiere Pro, yes the GTX660 will (should) make a huge difference over the XT8800. RAM seemed to becoming the bottleneck and I was finding that on just about every test I did (excluding encoding ProRes) even my MacBookPro 17" (2.5Ghz i7) was faster than my MacPro and it was really starting to bug me! The reason I finally upgraded was that the RAM in the MacPro 3,1 is limited to 800Mhz (it's DDR2) while the newer machines are twice as fast. So, will the GTX660 make a difference over an XT8800? Absolutely. Having the CUDA acceleration definitely helped over the ATI 5770 which is the other card I have, used when I was editing in FCPX.
#VIDEO CARD FOR 2008 MAC PRO 1080P#
It wasn't awesome, but it worked quite well for 1080p stuff as long as you didn't load too many layers. When using Premiere Pro (CS5 - CS6) I used the GTX285 which actually made editing quite useable. My MacPro was upgraded a couple of times over the years with different GPUs. I'm typing this on a 2008 MacPro 3,1 (8 core) which I have pretty much retired from most editing work because I got a new iMac 27" i7 with 4GB GPU & 32GB ram which totally blows the doors of the MacPro 3,1 for everything except encoding ProRes files, for which it just about keeps up.
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