Will the 2019 Mac Pro significantly speed up Adobe pro apps? And can advanced AMD GPUs do the job as well as a powerful NVIDIA GPU?
The 2019 Mac Pro 12-Core runs Adobe Pro Apps 31% to 66% faster than the 2010 Mac Pro 12-Core with a fast AMD GPU.
NVIDIA GPUs like the TITAN Xp have a reputation of running Adobe apps faster than AMD GPUs. We didn’t see that advantage in our testing. In fact, when we ran the Enhance Details function in Lightroom, the TITAN Xp took 3 minutes and 25 seconds to enhance ONE image. The RX 5700 XT Enhanced 12 images in the same time as the TITAN Xp took for one!
HUH? Yes. Turns out that Enhance uses the GPU only if it supports Metal. The only NVIDIA GPUs that support Metal are the ‘ancient ones’ that run Apple drivers (like the GTX 680 Mac Edition or the Quadro K5000 For Mac).
MacDailyNews Note: Also check out Bare Feats’ 2010 Mac Pro vs. 2019 Mac Pro shootout (including DaVinci Resolve and X-Plane) here.
The MacPro5,1 is a decade old and it shows.
I guess I was hoping that the delta would be greater. 31%-66% faster is all we get for nine years of CPU progress? That is around five cycles of Moore’s Law. Maybe the software is not yet optimized for the newer gear? At least the price is not horrible when compared. The 12-core 2019 with 32GB of RAM is $6,999. The 12-core 2010 with 6GB of RAM was $4,999. (Adjusted for inflation that is almost $6K.) With 32GB, it would likely be pretty close. I still love my 2012 MP. It continues to be a workhorse. And it has bays where I can put drives. 🙂
I expected 100% faster at least.
We did not get “nine years of CPU progress”. We got one year of CPU progress, nine years late
It takes a long time to design a monitor stand as pretty and advanced as Apple’s recent release. Now it’s time to focus on the CPU.
And those wheels!
My 16-core 2019 Mac Pro is running Matlab/XCode simulations with 180 threads 4x faster than my 6-core 2018 MacBook Pro.
At a fixed clock speed you’re running 2.67x more cores to get 4x performance. Subtract six years and you get “Intel wtf are you doing?”.
Computed with fingers.
Looks like Bare Feats neglected to download the NVidia Web Drivers for their Titan XP. Would have made ALL the difference in the world; only caveat being that you’re limited to MacOS 10.13.
“Will the 2019 Mac Pro significantly speed up Adobe pro apps? ”
No Galileo proved that, neglecting wind resistance, all objects throw out a window will accelerate in exactly the same fashion.
Adobe, Autodesk and Quark will not use Apple dev tools if they can get away with it, and when they do they are way late.
g = 9.1 m/s/s