Best Graphics Card For Video Editing Mac Pro 2019

Best Graphics Card For Video Editing Mac Pro 2019

What was surprising was that the iMac Pro 2019 14-Core wasnt that much faster than the 10-core version and only increased in performance by around 5.

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While there are many reasons our customers want a change, it usually comes down to one major factor, performance.

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB Note: With NVIDIA GPUs you get advantages of Adobes Mercury Playback Engine acceleration and CUDA support.

Processor: 2.7GHz 12-core Xeon Note: Old generation CPU (2013 Year).

We also found major performance issues with Premiere Pro CC 2019 (ver 13.1), with performance drops in ProRes footage on the PC and RED footage on the Mac when using versions 13.1 and 13.1.1.

As the iMac Pro requires a keyboard and mouse, we also bought a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for the Mac Pro and PC.

Our tests also used three different timelines to stimulate different types of workload.

We also measured Live playback FPS (frames per second) based on the number of dropped frames relative to the total number of frames in the sequence.

For example, by dropping 100 frames in the 4K ProRes 422 HQ Basic timeline (which has 579 frames), you will render 479 frames over 24 seconds for a result of 20 FPS.

However, if youre using a Mac youll probably need to delete and re-apply the Lumetri Color effects, as sometimes they dont translate properly from the PC to Mac.

We also decided to calculate the average performance of each system relative to the 10-core iMac Pro using OpenCL.

For example, with 4K RED 11:1 footage the iMac Pro 14-core went from 24FPS to 6FPS without any effects being applied to the footage.

However, compared to the iMac-Pro 10-core, our PC workstation gave 25 higher FPS with ProRes media, 30 higher with DNxHR HQH.264ARRIRAW, and almost 75 higher FPS with RED footage, and was 94 faster on average in our Heavy Effects test.

However, the PC workstation was the clear winner for playback performance and was 25-60 faster depending on the type of footage used; making our PC workstation a better option for FPS as well as better value for money.

Taking 4K, 6K, and 8K projects using the different codecs listed in the Test Hardware Methodology section we measured export performance on all the systems.

RED footage was an exception, usually taking twice as long or longer to export with Metal.

However, as our findings in the Live Playback test show, Metal was significantly worse than OpenCL, so keeping Premiere Pro in OpenCL mode will be the best option for most Mac users.

The performance gap closed by a small amount with the 14-core iMac, but the PC still had a 3040 performance lead.

Surprisingly, the Mac Pro managed to keep up with the newer iMac Pro systems with ProRes footage, but fell behind with other types of media, making our PC workstation 40 to 60 faster, as well as saving you a whopping 2,000 on price.

However, the iMac Pro systems were still around 15 slower with DNxHR, H.264, and ARRIRAW footage, although the 14-core iMac Pro was able to pull slightly ahead of our BIZON V5000 PC with ProRes footage.

However, due to the lower live playback performance with Metal across the media tested, we feel OpenCL offers the most valid comparison across the PC and Mac systems.

This reduces slightly with DNxHR HQ, H.264, and ARRIRAW media, but our PC was still faster and outperformed the Mac by around 35.

Its also worth keeping in mind that we paid 420 for a 4K monitor, keyboard, and mouse, so if you already have them you would reduce the costs even more.