Dual Ati Radeon 5770 Card For Mac Pro Final Cut
Bare Feats did some rendering time test with a few setups. Not Brucex test but a comparison, nonetheless. This was useful but kind of begs the question why Barefeats was previously claiming the dual 5770's were faster than *any* single AMD GPU. From these FCPX tests, the dual 5770's are clearly the slowest in comparison even to the single GPU cases. The previous claim that the dual 5770's were only slightly slower than dual 7970's is obviously either just unfounded fantasy or they ran some other test(s) from the ones published here. Since I already had 3 different cards I could double up on any of them, so now wondering how to reliably power 2x7950's (I do not think applying the Y splitter cables on the 2 PCIe AUX power sources is sufficient for normal day in day out operations (running a 2 second test lie BruceX is not going to pull the same sustained load).
ATI RADEON HD 5770. 2006 Mac Pro. ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card with dual output. Free postage. MS Office 2011, Logic Pro X, Final Cut Pro, Garage band. 5 out of 5 stars - Apple Mac Pro 5.1 Mid 2010 Quad Core 2.80GHz 16GB RAM 4TB HDD OFFICE 2011 + APPS.
Not too keen on adding another power supply, but does anyone know how to take the power from the optical drive(s) or have details as to how much power such a conversion could supply? Base on the results from bare feats the dual 5770 setup is the best bang-for-the-buck For those who already have a 5770 in their MP getting a second 5770 as auxiliary is a cheaper (and less hassle) than getting a higher end GPU as replacement. Well going just by BruceX which Barefeats did not publish data on, I'd say the results Ive seen would agree. But, the latest posting by Barefeats would ay the opposite:i.e. A single 7950 still outperforms a dual 5770 (& thus keeps 2 additional PCIe slots available).
USPS just dropped off my flashed 5770 card from eBay. Installation was a breeze. I installed it in slot 3 (as I do not want to give up the hard drive slots just yet.) Mac Pro 2006 with Dual X5355 and 16 gigs RAM. I reran the Bruce X test exporting to straight ProRes.
Previously on the single 5770, I got 1:23 seconds from time I hit save to QT player opening. With the dual card, I got 56 seconds on the first run and 52 seconds on the second run. Team explorer connect for visual studio community mac. I made sure to delete project and event files before each run.
Third run 57.55 seconds. That seemed impressive.
However, when I tried to do some effects on a 2 minute 1080p clip it seemed less impressive to me. Gaussian Blur: Before: 1 minute 21 seconds After: 1 minute 9 seconds Triple Effects: Rain, Directional Blur and Underwater: Before: 1:26 seconds After: 1:23 seconds More tests to be done, but for $126 it is a fun project. One thing the dual HD 5770 didn't help me with is Red Giant's Mojo. (Even after the 8 core upgrade.) If I even think of hovering over the RG Mojo look choices in the effects panel, FCPX starts to beach ball almost immediately and then finally catches up and gives me a preview of how the look may appear. The rendered clip is fine, but it is brutal to work with as you wait to preview a look. I know I should contact Red Giant, but I guess a plugin not optimized for OpenCL gives little benefits? Apple's built in looks are fine and plays immediately in contrast.