Re:New Mac Pro
by mantap on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:45PM
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And who is? Who exactly is buying $13000 workstations with AMD GPUs?
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Not according to electricslpnsld:
> I worked at two movie studios (Pixar, Weta Digital) and they were both almost 100% Linux with a smattering of Windows machines here and there. Apple stuff was mainly iPads for story boarding and that kind of stuff.
The point isn't that they use Apple, it's that they would be willing to pay 5 figures for a workstation:
https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneypostmortem/
> This image was rendered at 2048x858 with 256spp and took 3.5 hours to render. I allowed it access to 28Gb of RAM but had to estimate how much embree would use for BVH data so it occasionally would exceed that number enough that the OS would start paging.
Of course there are people and companies willing to spend 5 figures on a workstation but most of them want Nvidia graphics.
When you are paying tens of thousands of dollars you don't want to be stuck in Apple's weird AMD-only walled garden.