That’s how we can produce more for less and offer more creative options and savings to our partners.
If you do heavy post production like we do you know how valuable powerful computer systems are. If you are doing compositing, 3D effects or grading on HD/2k and UHD/4k footage a powerful system can pay you back in massive time savings over the course of it’s life.
Expect 30 to 50% less performance and a much higher cost from your Apple purchase.
Here’s our most recent build:
- OS: $150 or Free
Win10 Pro or CentOS Linux - Processor: $2,000
Intel Core i9-7980X - Motherboard: $425
GIGABYTE X299 DESIGNARE EX - Storage: $1,300
Samsung 960 PRO Series 512 for OS and 2TB for cache - Memory: $1,500
128gb DDR4 3000 - GPU: $2,400
2 x TitanXp GPU - Optional:
Video Card: External black magic Decklink 4k through thunderbolt 3
Network Adapter: 10GBE Nic
Liquid cooling
Sweet case
Chariotdrive colors and branding
A comparative MacPro doesn’t even exist for doing this type of thing. 8 core Xeon with AMD Fire GPUs.
Don’t talk to me about hackintosh. What a waste of time that is. This machine has 24GB of vram and 128GB ram with 18cores/36thread cpu and NVME storage for OS and Cache. And it can run Linux as well.
If you doing a lot of Resolve you may even want to think about Nvidia Quadro, especially working at 6 and 8k footge.
Here’s extensive evidence that it makes sense.
