Nvidia GTX 980 Ti - Wow! (almost)
I just upgraded from a Sapphire HD 7950 video card to a NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti (this is a flashed EVGA card from www.macvidcards.com).
My computer is a Mid 2010 Mac Pro, 2.8 GHz Quad Core with 16 GB RAM and a PCI attached SSD.
Capture One’s UI runs spectacular with the new card. Nothing, really nothing is jerky, the sliders feel 100% coupled to the mouse, rotating and perspective correction is smooth as can be. This is with 36 megapixel Nikon D810 RAW files.
So far I am very impressed and the upgrade seems to be worth it.
If there’s one small fly in the ointment, it’s that output speed actually is slower now. Before I averaged 1.3 sec per image, output to full size JPEG at 80% quality. Now I average at 1.9 sec.
Not too big of a deal (UI performance is more important to me) but still worth mentioning since in general the GTX 980 Ti is WAAAY more powerful than the Sapphire HD7950 so it would be nice to see this power in C1’s output performance.
Maybe this is something the Phase One developers could look into (case filed with Phase One support).
I know that it’s always difficult to cater to each and every system scenario, but since the GTX 980 Ti seems to be the the most current and powerful card available for pre-2013 Mac Pros it might make sense.
My computer is a Mid 2010 Mac Pro, 2.8 GHz Quad Core with 16 GB RAM and a PCI attached SSD.
Capture One’s UI runs spectacular with the new card. Nothing, really nothing is jerky, the sliders feel 100% coupled to the mouse, rotating and perspective correction is smooth as can be. This is with 36 megapixel Nikon D810 RAW files.
So far I am very impressed and the upgrade seems to be worth it.
If there’s one small fly in the ointment, it’s that output speed actually is slower now. Before I averaged 1.3 sec per image, output to full size JPEG at 80% quality. Now I average at 1.9 sec.
Not too big of a deal (UI performance is more important to me) but still worth mentioning since in general the GTX 980 Ti is WAAAY more powerful than the Sapphire HD7950 so it would be nice to see this power in C1’s output performance.
Maybe this is something the Phase One developers could look into (case filed with Phase One support).
I know that it’s always difficult to cater to each and every system scenario, but since the GTX 980 Ti seems to be the the most current and powerful card available for pre-2013 Mac Pros it might make sense.
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Please try with uncompressed tiff's instead. That saturates the GPU more, as no compression is performed by the CPU. 0 -
Interesting!
This would also mean a CPU upgrade could be beneficial?
I actually have planned replacing my CPU with a 3.46 GHz Hex Core Westmere CPU. That's a pretty reasonable upgrade - around $200 - 250.0 -
Nvidia is releasing Mac drivers for their Pascal 10-series later this month.
That means that GTX 1050/60/70 and 1080 will be available for the mac as I understand it.0 -
[quote="Thomas Geist" wrote:
Interesting!
This would also mean a CPU upgrade could be beneficial?
I actually have planned replacing my CPU with a 3.46 GHz Hex Core Westmere CPU. That's a pretty reasonable upgrade - around $200 - 250.
The CPU is used for loading the raw-file and compression. With very fast GFX cards, and very fast disks, the CPU will become the bottleneck.0 -
Great information!
Does C1 make use of higher CPU core numbers for this?0 -
As a rule of thumb, yes. 0
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