I have no plans to run five monitors -) I do have a 32 inch UHD monitor (3840x2160) and 2 x24 inch HD+ monitors (1920x1200). The graphics card has five output ports and I am assured that all of them can be used at once, with 4 x UHD (so called 4k) monitors and one monitor up to 2560x1600.

The Mac Pro has a PCIe card providing USB 3 ports as it shipped with USB 2 ports only. I did have an external RAID box too but it died another one is a planned purchase for early next year. There are 4 x 4TB hard drives for data in mirrored pairs so they provide an internally backed up total of 8TB. 12-core 3.46 GHz, with the 8GB RX-580 graphics card so it runs Catalina, 64GB RAM (soon to be 128GB) 2x500GB NVME SSDs on PCIe cards one is the boot drive, the other an internal backup for it. Keep in mind that becoming a development fund member does not give the companies any ownership or control over Blender, which will always remain free and open source. Īpple joining the development fund means that Blender now has major silicon makers on board (Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Intel), which can only mean great things for Blender's performance and support on the widest range of hardware possible. This can be immediately seen with Apple's first submitted patch: the long-awaited Metal backend for Cycles GPU rendering on macOS! Further development and integrations are to be expected.įirst official patch submitted by Apple: Metal backend for Cycles GPU rendering on macOS. This newest addition to the roster of Blender backers' support is not limited to the financial realm, with Apple committing development resources among other things to shore up Blender support on its macOS platforms.

Today Apple joins the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Patron member. The Blender Foundation has just announced that Apple has joined its development fund as a corporate Patron member! This is the latest news in a string of similar developments with tech/entertainment industry giants joining the Blender Development Fund.

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