- Joined
- Oct 23, 2010
- Messages
- 924
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH
- CPU
- i7-3770K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Cannot really make a recommendation (otherwise someone will go "ARRRGGGGHHHH!!" when it does not work ).ARRRGGGGHHHH!!
OK: thank you for saving me. I've got a return/refund approved on the card.
So: if I want to continue to move forward, then I take it I need to build a new hackintosh (or pray that Nvidia releases drivers?)
Any suggestions for what mobo/CPU/card -will- work with, and accelerate, FCP? I'm more a creative than a gamer...
Thanks again. Not the news I wanted, but I appreciate your response.
Do your own research first, don't just listen to folks who say "it's works OOB...it's fine for me...etc" as their usage and needs may be completely different to yours. Unless then can categorically prove (systematic repeatable tests) that it does what you need, then be vary of the claims. AMD RX580 is perfectly good GPU for the the GUI but has issues for encoding/decoding certain codes.
Vega seems to be better supported in terms of encoding/decoding.
But so are latest Intel CPU's + IGPU's. If you can afford it, look at latest i7's & i9's and latest Xeon's - specially the one's used in real iMac Pros.
Even on real Mac's, they use the GPU for GUI and rendering together with the CPU, and their own custom T2 chip for encoding.
I have come to a conclusion that I need to move to a newer system after the holidays.