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Saturday, June 02, 2007
Final Cut Studio 2 and 8-core Mac Pro
Rob-art @ Barefeats.com is on the job since I'm not (on vacation, back tonight), testing how well Final Cut Studio 6 takes advantage of all the processors in an 8 core Mac Pro tower:
Final Cut Studio 2 and 8-core Mac Pro: "Many of you are curious if the latest version of Final Cut Studio (Final Cut Pro 6, Compressor 3, etc.) takes advantage of the 8-core Mac Pro's full performance potential. The short answer? Yes."
Defining a virtual cluster also works to take advantage of multiple CPUs for Compressor 3, cutting compression time from 24 to 11 minutes on an 8 core box (as compared to NOT defining a virtual cluster).
Read on for full details.
Final Cut Studio 2 and 8-core Mac Pro: "Many of you are curious if the latest version of Final Cut Studio (Final Cut Pro 6, Compressor 3, etc.) takes advantage of the 8-core Mac Pro's full performance potential. The short answer? Yes."
Defining a virtual cluster also works to take advantage of multiple CPUs for Compressor 3, cutting compression time from 24 to 11 minutes on an 8 core box (as compared to NOT defining a virtual cluster).
Read on for full details.
Comments:
The main reason I haven't bought an 8-core yet is because of that memory bottleneck. Yes, it's faster than the quad but this thing will really fly once it has more memory bandwidth available to it.
I'm in the market for a new box at work this Summer. This is of course debatable, but I think for me 8 cores is going to be overkill and not the sweet spot for price/performance.
I need responsiveness while I work - not so much on the render side when I'm done. I can almost always do that at the end of the day or on breaks (lots of short-form work).
I also think the OS and memory bandwidth should mature a bit more before 8 cores becomes practical. That hopefully will change with Leopard.
I need responsiveness while I work - not so much on the render side when I'm done. I can almost always do that at the end of the day or on breaks (lots of short-form work).
I also think the OS and memory bandwidth should mature a bit more before 8 cores becomes practical. That hopefully will change with Leopard.
Looks pretty good. Even today you get good performance with an 8-Core Mac Pro and the performance will improve. I think by years end the 8-Core configuration will be the recommended Workstation configuration. Leopard will be out and will handle locking threads to cores better and prioritizing better. Intel will have a new 8-core chip that handles caching better with a superior snoop filter. If you need the speed right now I say go for it. If not hang on until Leopard and Penryn hit.
He only has screenshots of Compressor 's CPU usage. What about Final Cut Pro itself?
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