Hey all, first time posting and just wanted to say how great its been to have this website as a resource over the last few months. Ive been lurking around keeping an eye on this 1080 thread, waiting and hoping for the cards to be supported so I can run out and buy one. Im just struggling with some GPU issues that I was hoping you guys might be able to shed some light on while we wait, and maybe let me know if in your experiences it would just be worth me shelling out for the 980 or something similar if the 1080 is likely to be the same price and not give me a performance boost.
My machine:
El Capitain
Mac Pro 5.1, 2 x 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
32GB RAM
GPU NVIDIA QUADRO 4000
I work a lot in Premiere Pro and AE and even with the cuda option enabled in these programs, my machine just falls apart working with multicam or 4K video. Looking at Activity Monitor I can see the GPU is doing all the heavy lifting so Im suspicious that there is just a real incompatibility with my build or version of the OS and that card (NVIDIA Driver Manager tells me Im up to date). I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience with the Quadro and if so, what card did you go to that fixed the problem? Would hate to drop all the cash on an upgrade and discover that it was something else. Also Im based in Australia so any and all purchases will see me getting slugged by the exchange rate and shipping (and we cant buy through Amazon which is a shame) so Im trying to be careful with my purchase.
Finally if anyone has had similar experiences and thinks I should just hit the 980 and quit waiting around for the 1080 Id be keen to know. Im not gaming, or running other operating systems on the machine, but Id assumed I should wait until the top of the line card comes out and that seems to be the 1080. However I could be on the wrong track if its performance wont be geared towards things like Premiere, AE etc (dont know much about Pascal and if I should be futureproofing myself by being on board with it.)
Sorry if this is the wrong part of the forum, feel free to move me elsewhere, just seemed like the crew that knows the most about this sort of things might be keeping an eye on this thread and might feel like sharing some of their insight.
Cheers
Dave