![]() ![]() It might not be an everyday need, but sooner or later most of us will wish we could do exactly this, with the minimum of pain and inconvenience - so let's explore the benefits, limitations and idiosyncrasies of the protocols and tools that aim to help you. We're often asked how to transfer projects from one software DAW to another. If you have a 12-core Mac Pro 2.93 or 2.Exporting a project from one DAW to another can be frustrating - but there are ways and means. You will notice we displayed 12-core results in only one graph (HandBrake). With exception of PhotoZoom, the iMac Core i7 hung tough in these tests. ![]() Maybe all you need is more RAM and a Radeo 5870 to "freshen" your machine. Notice how well the 20 8-core Mac Pros do compared to the 2010 6-core and 8-core. But the 8 cylinder Corvette and 6 cylinder Porsche Cayman S can reach the real world destination nearly as fast for a lot less $$$. I'm envious of the 12-core Mac Pro the same way I'm envious of a 12 cylinder Ferrari or Lamborghini. In other words, there is not a one-to-one correlation between what you spend on a new Mac Pro, how many cores it has, and the performance you will experience in the real world. Even when all cores appear to be pedaling, they are not always functioning efficiently. OS 10.6.4 "Snow Leopard" was installed in all systems.Īs you can see from the graphs, the difference between a 12-core, 8-core, and 6-core 2010 Mac Pro is not always dramatic when running cpu intensive pro apps. "Waiting for RMS results" = Waiting for remote mad scientists to send in their results since we don't have that model in the lab at a momentĪll Mac Pros had a Radeon HD 5870 GPU. PhotoZoom Pro uses a patented S-Spline algorithm to do image enlargements while preserving the quality. Using a special preset, we converted it to an iPad optimized format. We used a 2.5 min HD Movie file as our test case. HandBrake is a popular app for converting DVDs to Apple TV or iPhone or iPad compatible format. With the exception of the iMac Core i7, all the Mac Pros listed below had the Radeon HD 5870 installed. However, it does gain from the presence of a fast GPU. We did just that with the 50 "Soccer RAW Samples." However, for this function, it uses 6 cores max and 6GB of total real memory (OS X + Aperture).Ĭolor is an example of one Apple's pro apps that does not take full advantage of multiple cores. One CPU intensive operation is when you export RAW photos as JPEG. All graphs display time in seconds.Īperture is popular with photographers. Continuing that theme, we present you results below for four more popular real world apps. Then we showed with After Effects, Compressor and Motion that much of the theoretical advantage shrinks in the real world. We published some artificial benchmarks (Cinebench, Geekbench) that showed the 2010 Mac Pro with the most cores beating up on the ones with less. September 17th, added some 12-core results Posted Wednesday, September 15th, 2010, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist ![]()
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