Do NOT use BMD if you plan to monitor UHD. It is unable to output Full Range.
iām notā¦but thanks for the advice, Alan
If I may jump in here. Iām in a similar position - Iāve got a job coming up that will require 12Kx12K renders with hundreds of layers so I need the fastest reliable hardware I can get my hands on. The Dell Threadripper (presumably the 7865) isnāt officially sanctioned but the Lenovo P620 is - there any reason to go for the Dell over the Lenovo?
Iām assuming the A6000 is still the fastest GPU to use for Flame, a 4090 is tempting but my understanding is it isnāt entirely reliable. The RTX 6000ās arenāt available anywhere in the UK, even if they were they donāt seem certified yet.
I havenāt used a Mac flame for a few years but was always pretty disappointed by their performance, even though theyāre loads easier to install and maintain. I assume thereās nothing on Mac that gets close to the above?
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The Lenovo is garbage. Search my posts here. For the resolution you specify, you will want an A6000 since it have 48gig of GPU RAM. RTX 6000 only have 24gigs. RTX8000 has 48 too, but it is one generation back from A6000.
The certification of workstation chassis is basically just marketing, but in regards to GPU, I would only use a Quadro.
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Thanks Alan. A6000 it is. Are Linux Flames able to output video to a broadcast monitor via the GPU yet or do you still need to buy a card/box. If so whatās the cheapest 4K option?
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Iāve had great experiences with the Lenovo P620s. I own 3. Yes, there was a time when the onboard networking wasnāt amazing due to something something motherboards, and I do wish they had some remote OOB management like the Dells, but when you can buy refurbed Lenovo P620s on eBay for less than $2k, Iāll gladly chuck in a $100 network card. $5 says you could by 3 Lenovo P620s used with second hand GPUs for the same price as a Dell.
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Your pricing is ignoring the difference in the CPU/GPU/RAM variations. Just saying you can buy a P620 for $2k without specifying this is not very informative. The performance difference a $2k and $17k machine are drastic even though they would both be P620.
Most of our shots we canāt even render if we donāt have A6000 (48gig VRAM), and 256gigs of RAM, and there is one shot, āThe Flame Killerā that even MTL canāt get rendered.
Spend the money, get a Dell.
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For a very long time youāve been able to set HDMI as broadcast. But if you want SDI or Pro level HDMI, AJA/BMD is required. If you are monitoring UHD and need Full Range (basically not legal 709), BMD doesnāt do it. Iām not even sure AJA does, but it is likely. We donāt have any AJA to test.
Will Flame run on this for travel jobs?
Apple 2023 MacBook Pro Laptop M2 Pro chip with 12ācore CPU and 19ācore GPU: 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR Display, 16GB Unified Memory, 1TB SSD Storage
Sir forgive me sir. I was speaking of the box itself before upgrades and in my head was comparing it to old Dell configurator pricing. But mid $7k range aināt bad.
$2200
$3800
$400
x4 = $640
Newegg Ram = $370
A barebones Dell with the same 5945WX is $1,900. It has no boot drive, but you can buy that for $100. It also comes with only a single stick of 8gb ram, but in your scenario you would be replacing all sticks anyway, and in the eBay machine, the RAM that comes with it gets thrown out. So effectively, the Dell is actually $200 cheaper, and a better platform.
But for 12k x 12k comps, I donāt consider a 5945WX to be appropriate provisioning. In fact in my testing of a 3945WX, it was actually slower than our topped out z840. There are many more factors than ānewā, in making something better or faster than something else.
For comparison, our 5995WX with 256G RAM and A6000 is only max 2.5x faster than our topped z840s, in our workload.
This is a great deal though.
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Yes, although I recommend more RAM.