New Mac Pro with Triple Graphic Out

[NevBull]

The processor does not do the hard work - the hard drive/graphics card combination are where the server's performance comes from.

Nev.

[foxrider]

Hi Nev, please educate me as I'm pretty new to the Mac world and Catalyst. I'm assuming 8 core Mac Pro now runs more HD layers than a Quad core. How come the 12 core will not improve the situation?

If I were to buy a new machine now, should I just buy a 8 core machine or should I wait till for the 12 core machine?

[Peter]

Not directly related to cat but this site gives a good insight on cores, ram, ... :

http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html

[samsc]

Not directly related to cat but this site gives a good insight on cores, ram, ... :

http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html

not very useful for catalyst

[samsc]

Hi Nev, please educate me as I'm pretty new to the Mac world and Catalyst. I'm assuming 8 core Mac Pro now runs more HD layers than a Quad core. How come the 12 core will not improve the situation?

If I were to buy a new machine now, should I just buy a 8 core machine or should I wait till for the 12 core machine?

who knows. there is not enough information out there- to determine whether the premium pricing will be cost effective-

with 2009 macs it does work better.

on my 2.26GHz 8 core 2009 mac pro with 10.6.x i get 6-8 layers of 1080p ( actual number depends on data rates in movies )

[samsc]

The processor does not do the hard work - the hard drive/graphics card combination are where the server's performance comes from.

Nev.

not true - with recent macs - 2009 - and 10.6.x every core has been useful-

and higher speed macs are able to do more layers-

All movie decoding is done on the cpus-

for hidef the more cpus and faster processors the better.

and movie playback uses as many cpus as are available.