Graphics Test: Bruce X

[elMaco]

10.11.6
FCPX 10.3.4
i3 3225
GA-Z77-DS3H
20GB RAM
Radeon 7970 GHZ Ed.

21,5 seconds

 

[barryzimmo]

Do I need to purchase a new graphics card? I use my hackintosh for FCPX only. I have a separate machine for work, this needs to be my workhorse for editing. Since upgrading to 10.3.3 I have rendering issues, playback issues, and running the bruce x 5k test took ages in comparison to others on here.

It has:

Mac Os 10.3.3 - FCP 10.4
Skylake i7-6700K 4ghz
16gb ram
Nvidia GTX 960 2gig
Bruce 5k test - 83 seconds

Please can someone advise as to what I need to do to speed this up. Thank you.

I managed to use the script that benjamin.dobell put together and that has saved me alot of time, as with the latest driver it took 20 minutes to do the bruce test, i know shocking...

 

[JozoR]

FCP 10.3.4
Coffee Lake i5 8600K @ 5 GHz
Asus RX 560 4 GB EVO (14 CU as RX 460)
8 GB RAM
ADATA SSD XPG SX6000

35 seconds.

Seems like anything else, more powerful AMD GPU and RAM makes difference of night and day.

 

[elMaco]

Do I need to purchase a new graphics card? I use my hackintosh for FCPX only. I have a separate machine for work, this needs to be my workhorse for editing. Since upgrading to 10.3.3 I have rendering issues, playback issues, and running the bruce x 5k test took ages in comparison to others on here.

It has:

Mac Os 10.3.3 - FCP 10.4
Skylake i7-6700K 4ghz
16gb ram
Nvidia GTX 960 2gig
Bruce 5k test - 83 seconds

Please can someone advise as to what I need to do to speed this up. Thank you.

I managed to use the script that benjamin.dobell put together and that has saved me alot of time, as with the latest driver it took 20 minutes to do the bruce test, i know shocking...

Get a used R9 280X or a HD 7970. True workhorse. About €100 or $125 here in Sweden

 

[goodwaysarts]

Mac OS 10.3.3 (17D102) - FCP 10.4
GIGABYTE Z370-HD3P
Intel i5-8600K 4.7 GHz (OC)
RAM 16 GB DDR4 3000Mhz
MSI Radeon RX 560 4G

BruceX Test 5K - 32.5 seconds

 

[asleb]

Mac OS X 10.13.3
i7 7700k 4.2Ghz
Gigabyte H270N-Wifi
32GB DDR 2400ghz (2 x 16)
MSI Radeon RX560 4GB
Samsung EVO 960 500GB M.2

27 sec !
With Asus Radeon RX 580 8 GB - 14.5 sec !
So it seems RX580 8GB is twice as fast as RX 560 4GB. But how does this relate to real life editing I wonder. Have yet to put the machine through some daily work.

Now this is strange:
- In system profile I only see one GPU (RX 560) but FCPX must be using Intel HD 630 (?)
- I use ig-platform-id= 0x59120003 with the good speed I get
- When I change ig-platform-id= 0x59120000 I can see both GPU in system profiler but BruceX runs in 1 min. 20 sec.
- I have set both GPU active in BIOS but there is no signal from HDMI on the internal GPU

I also made a hackintosh with a i7 8700k, same SSD, Radeon 680 8GB. Runs BruceX in 12.5 sec (same as my Kaby Lake). When I put the fans in BIOS to "Performance" I get 8 sec (!). But the fan noise is killing my ears.

 

[asleb]

MacOS 10.13.3
Z97
i7-4790K
16gb Ram
Nitro+ RX 580 8gb Special Edition
BruceX = 16 seconds (with or without Intel Quicksync enabled)

Yeah, I never quite understood the Quicksync thing. Made no difference to me either. Your GPU is king! Radeon definitely rules. Question is though if BruceX test is what you really do every day in FCPX.

 

[asleb]

10.13.3 - FCP: 10.4
i7 7700K
32GB DDR4 RAM
Gigabyte Z270XP-SLI
Gigabyte 1050 TI 4GB
Samsung 960 EVO NVMe 500GB

I'm seeing around 2 minutes...can't seem to resolve this. Any advice?

Your setup is king. But your graphics card is not what FCPX wants. I have same setup but RX560 4GB and it gives me 27 sec. RX580 gives me 14 sec.

 

[pastrychef]

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
i7-8700K @ 5GHz w/ Quick Sync enabled
Asus ROG Strix Z370-g Gaming (Wi-Fi AC)
64GB TridentZ 3400MHz RAM
Final Cut Pro X 10.4
MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost
BruceX Test 5K - 12 seconds

 

[Ni6htWalker]

Get a used R9 280X or a HD 7970. True workhorse. About €100 or $125 here in Sweden

not really i used to have 2 of those card and when i was exporting a final cut project to blueray its take around 3 or 4 hours to finisth exporting to bluray disk or img,project lengh was around 2 hours-30 minutes.