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Originally Posted by gives
In my opinion, you don't need a super fancy graphics card for what we do. I think that is a waste of money. Last fall I was looking at the Radeon Pro 580X with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. It can easily run two 4k displays at 60hz and has two HDMI ports on the back. You can even run a 3rd 4k display on thru and Thunderbolt dock if needed. More than adequate for what we need to do in ProTools and it only takes up a single PCIe slot. Anything bigger, they take up a lot more space, withe their massive heat syncs on them. The only advantage on the larger cards, is that they have 4 additional Thunderbolt 3 ports on the back of them like the Radeon W5700X with 16GB of GDDR6 memory.
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The W5700X does increase the number of TB3 busses by two, not just the number of ports. Out of the box, the Mac 7.1 isn’t particularly well spec’d with USB/TB3 ports. I’ve found the extra ports useful.
I agreed the W5700x card is over the top for just PT/DAW use but well worth it if you also use video/photo/3D apps. The 580x is very low spec here.