Seems pretty pricey given the specs. How much would it cost to put together a new Linux box with the same/functionally equivalent components?
The processor is around $3,150.
The Afterburner is not available for Linux at any price. It only contributes $2,000 to the price anyway.
The AMD Pro Vega II is not available for purchase. Finding an equivalent card would require substantial amounts of guesswork. The only recent GPUs I can find with 32GB are around $7,000. The configuration has two of them.
You're up to $27k by this point and you don't have a computer yet, and I'm not so sure that the equipment above is comparable.
Only in cases where reprogramming capability or lack of initial cost of production make sense FPGA is used.
> Compatible with Mac Pro (current generation) PCI Express x16 card
> Accelerates ProRes and ProRes RAW codec in Final Cut Pro X, QuickTime Player X, and supported third-party applications
> Supports playback of up to 6 streams of 8K ProRes RAW or up to 23 streams of 4K ProRes RAW
So if there’s an NVIDIA card that does all that, great, happy to hear it. I heard Adobe Premiere was recently updated to support the Afterburner as well so hopefully it also works with NVIDIA’s equivalent.
Like, there are only two GPU manufacturers left in the world, and requisite macOS driver for the bigger and better one, flat out don’t exist.
> 1.5 TB DDR4 ECC Ram
This isn’t gonna cost less than 20k.