Even then, the output quality is what I wouldn't call it professionally acceptable either. While having the most powerful card helps you in terms of having a smoother timeline, it won't help you encode and decode HEVC and h.264 material to intraframe, unless you activate AMD hardware acceleration which is only available in Mojave and under certain conditions. So don't just focus on having the most powerful graphic card. I also use SSDs configured as RAID 0 as well as my 7200 rpm spinners configured to RAID0 and have a RAID 5 Gigabit network drive for archival and footage retrieval.
I mainly edit video in Davinci Resolve 16 and with 4K/30p source video and I find that the platform is fine for independent movie producers with a good amount of motion graphics, titles, color grading and LUTs. Perhaps I can chime into this topic as I own a Mac Pro 5,1 with only 8 core and older E5520 CPUs (roughly the same performance as a Core i3 Coffee Lake in multi-core) and a Radeon RX580 8Gb Sapphire Pulse. Radeon 5600XT cards similar performance to RX580/Vega56. If you have lots of 32 bit apps you want to still use it maybe not a good thing to upgrade that far.ĥ700XT cards are similar performance to Vega 64.
No need to do any mods.ĪVID Media Composer needs to be 64 bit to run on Catalina though. Power consumption is good for these cards. The driver support is now coming out for 5700/5700XT and Radeon 5800+ cards will come to market later in 2020 I think. Maybe someone else can chip in here on this thread but long term investment wise you maybe better off with those dual xeons to upgrade to Catalina and go Radeon 5000X series. You want to do 4K video you are going to put a heavy load on your system. There is a lot of info out there on graphics cards for MP5.1.Ģ25W is about the limit without doing any kind of mods to power supply of MP5.1.Įven a Radeon RX590 is around 235W so if u put your system under extreme stress it may shut down or you might fry your motherboard. I saw a You Tube video this morning where a guy had installed a VEGA RX VEGA 64 and was discussing Benchmarks in comparison to the RX580 and it was extremely impressive, but I didn't realise it was very power hungry so maybe I need to check the Power Supply I am currently using which is the standard supply as installed by Apple from new. I have seen the RX580 used and many people like that card, but was wondering if for a few pounds more if there was anything slightly better than the RX580.
I have recently upgraded my MAC Pro 2009 from 4.1 to 5.1 by installing 2X Intel XEON 5680 3.33 Ghz processors and 64GB of 1333 RAM which work perfectly up to MAC OS Sierra, but to take advantage of 4K/60 editing I really do need to move to at least High Sierra or Mojave which will both work fine with my AVID Editing Software.īut of course I need to upgrade the Graphics Card to be "Metal" compatible.\ Hi, that is an interesting point being "Power Hungry", I am a video editor using AVID Media Composer and want to move up to full 4K/60 editing.