Something to consider beyond the hardware is the software. During the years that I've been using MacOS, Apple often shined at only supporting outdated OpenGL versions in their OS, or poorly implementing it. To make things worse, they decided to go their own way with their Metal API without providing any support for Vulkan (unless I missed something). I don't think many developers are willing to write their software using the Metal API to boost rendering performances when the 3D market is fairly small on Mac.
Surely it's a bit cocky from them to be boasting their graphics marketing when they seem to be hated by graphics developers. On 7 June 2017 at 17:37, Rob Wuijster <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the first reviews, and it's not really a glowing one: > > https://www.slashgear.com/imac-pro-still-doesnt-give- > the-one-thing-pros-want-06487652/ > > Rob > > \/-------------\/----------------\/ > > On 6-6-2017 21:50, Angus Davidson wrote: > > Unfortunately Apple has defined pro market to mean , FCP X and a little > bit of after effects. Its the only reason I can think of for some of the > dumb decisions made in the last two years. Up to and including today. > > At least dell gives decent EDU discounts. Going to make the move from > apple far less painful for us > > -- > ICT Project Manager > Digital Arts > Wits School of the Arts > [email protected] > 011 717 4683 > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Stanley Mpofu > *Sent:* 31 May 2017 03:14 PM > *To:* Collen Rasalanavho; Angus Davidson; Brian Maistry; Shunmuga Pillay; > Andrew Sam; Tumishi Madihlaba; Donald Dandawa; Bekir Genc; Arinavho > Tshifularo; Simon Mofokeng; Charl Roberts; Mark Allen; James Mokoka; Ernest > Maluleke; Shereen Jacobs > *Subject:* Wits ICT Strategy.pptx > > Colleagues > > As discussed this morning, Please note the attached strategic direction as > well intended service catalogue that will talk to the SLAs between ICT and > the University. Please respond with comments and more ideas around what I > have proposed for Wits going forward. > > > > > > Many thanks > > > > Dr Mpofu Mgobansimbi SB > > *Chief Information Officer (Wits)* > > +27117171662 > > +27733779947 > > [email protected] > > "Lions Don’t Worry About The Opinion Of Sheep" > > > > *PA* > > Celesse-Ann Brandt-Jacobs > > Tel : +2711 717 1602 > > Email : [email protected] > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Marc-Andre Carbonneau [[email protected]] > *Sent:* 06 June 2017 09:38 PM > *To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/ > forum/#!forum/xsi_list > *Subject:* RE: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay? > > Heheheh thanks everyone. I’m not so much using powerful pcs anymore but > was interested in getting the low down on these “new” contenders. > > MAC > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:softimage-bounces@ > listproc.autodesk.com <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Jonathan Moore > *Sent:* June-06-17 3:36 PM > *To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google. > com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay? > > > > Apologies for this slight digression into the benefits of 2012-2014 > generation Zseries workstations but the final good points about them is > that they're built like tanks with top drawer components so they’re less > risk than many other second hand purchases. The total cost for my three > Zseries workstations was under £2k (GPU’s on top) so that’s a heap of > processing power for the budget (96 threads running at 3.1 Ghz). And > E5-6670’s are incredibly efficient too so running costs are very favourable > for typical Houdini/ICE CPU simulations. Although running 9 GPU’s across > three workstations for rendering chews through the juice. > > > > So back to the original point of the iMac Pro. There are far better ways > to spend your cash! :) > > > > On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:21, Jonathan Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > <PastedGraphic-1.tiff> > > As you can see plenty of PCIe Gen3 x16 and x8’s as long as you go for a > dual processes build. > > > > Dual E5-2670 based systems won’t best a latest & greatest i7 for GPU > rendering but if you pick up a system (or preferably multiple systems) at > the right price, you’re get something that performs well both on CPU > simulations and on GPU rendering duties. > > > > http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04400043.pdf > > > > > > On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:05, Ognjen Vukovic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I thought those z workstations had pretty old mobos. 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