Two DisplayPort connections routed to system to support internal Thunderbolt 3 ports.

Four Thunderbolt 3 ports and one HDMI 2.0 port on card.

Infinity Fabric Link connection enables two Vega II GPUs to connect at up to 84GB/s.

Up to 14.1 teraflops single precision or 28.2 teraflops half precision.

32GB of HBM2 memory with 1TB/s memory bandwidth.

64 compute units, 4096 stream processors.

Half-height MPX Module fits in an MPX bay and enables PCIe slot 2 for additional expansion.

Support for up to six 4K displays, two 5K displays, or two Pro Display XDRs.

Four DisplayPort connections routed to system to support internal Thunderbolt 3 ports.

36 compute units, 2304 stream processors.

The new Mac Pro will only run AMD graphics cards. The New Mac ProĪs far as the processor goes, you’ll have several Intel Xeon W to choose from.īut here’s where the real points to note are. You are once again able to expand and upgrade the machine, but there is a big downside. So where do we stand now? Well, the new Mac Pro returns to classic from and has overly embraced the cheese grater design of old. We just learned about all the new laptops NVIDIA has planned for the year, but the big question remaining was if Apple would finally announce a new Mac Pro in 2019. You couldn’t upgrade the machine, it was under-powered, and it was overpriced. It’s been 6 years since the last Mac Pro redesign, and the “trash can” mac left much to be desired. Is it powerful enough to get us to switch back to Mac? I hope to drop in some 6800XTs at some point, but the biggest plus would be more VRAM.The new Mac Pro has finally been revealed. I will just add that yes, these AMD cards aren’t a patch on Nvidia’s, but this system is easily fast enough for my needs. I’m not really up on eGPU options – check out

Octane’s material system is easy to understand (either with layers or nodes), and it’s quite feature-rich now, for things like render passes.Īnd because Octane is rental, you can drop $20, check it out and then cancel if it’s not to your liking. As with all modern, fast renderers, the realtime IPR is a life-changer. The denoise function also works well enough to knock even more time off, and is great for things like OpenVDB smoke and clouds.

I can render a scene with billions of instanced polys, volumetric lighting and GI in seconds instead of many, many minutes. If you’re doing small-scale stuff, then you should be fine.Ĭompared to C4D’s Physical renderer… well, there is no comparison. It’s fairly stable these days – with the usual caveats about GPU renderers, when you hit VRAM limits. Yes, I’m using it on a Mac Pro with an RX580X and two RX5700XTs (I got the year’s free Enterprise license).

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