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Babysteps ... no more excuses now because of the OS version

Jules said "very soon" and "real soon" instead of "soon" ....

We are too desperate now hahahah

10.15.5 has been pushed, do we need to start waiting 10.15.6, 10.15.7 ...

hobirchina wrote:10.15.5 has been pushed, do we need to start waiting 10.15.6, 10.15.7 ...

You mean 10.16.X and so on I really hope Octane X happens very soon and not months from now.

DERJUNG wrote:

hobirchina wrote:10.15.5 has been pushed, do we need to start waiting 10.15.6, 10.15.7 ...

You mean 10.16.X and so on I really hope Octane X happens very soon and not months from now.

I am also waiting for OctaneX to arrive early, otherwise my MacbookPro will be useless. Waiting always suffers.

Well I upgraded to 10.15.5, hoping for some change in the performance of my GPUs, but ProRender in C4D and Blender is still crashy as hell. Also, my Mac Pro still doesn't recognise the RX5700XT – just comes up as 'Unknown PCi-to-PCI Bridge Card' in Expansion Slot Utility.

I just hope this release is what OTOY needed.

OctaneX promises to release it with the new MacPro at the end of 2019.
In late January 2020, OctaneX said that we are waiting for a new driver, he may appear in 10.15.5.

After a long wait, it is now in late May 2020, which is about to enter June 2020, and MacOS 10.15.5 is officially released and pushed. Should OctaneX stay silent at this time or continue to tell everyone that you need to wait until MacOS 10.15.6? 10.15.7? 10.16?

I have lost faith. This kind of waiting without end is painful. I continue to go back to Windows and use my NVIDIA graphics card.

hobirchina wrote:OctaneX promises to release it with the new MacPro at the end of 2019.
In late January 2020, OctaneX said that we are waiting for a new driver, he may appear in 10.15.5.

After a long wait, it is now in late May 2020, which is about to enter June 2020, and MacOS 10.15.5 is officially released and pushed. Should OctaneX stay silent at this time or continue to tell everyone that you need to wait until MacOS 10.15.6? 10.15.7? 10.16?

I have lost faith. This kind of waiting without end is painful. I continue to go back to Windows and use my NVIDIA graphics card.

It’s still in closed beta for a little while longer. First public release will run on 10.15.

I use an iMac Pro with High Sierra and two 1080 ti's in eGPU cases, 64 GB RAM, 10 Cores. This system cost me about 10000 €!!!
After 20 years with Macs and endless waiting for Octane X, I additionally bought a refurbished 5 years old PC: 2x 2080 ti, 128 GB RAM, 24 Cores for 4000 €.
With Octane 2020 and RTX support it is 4,5 times faster than the Mac – for 2,5 times lower price.
So, if Octane X is coming, it hopefully will be as fast or even faster than the CUDA version.
If they just reach the same speed with a Mac Pro for 20000 € this will be the time to say goodbye to Apple even if they have the much much better OS.

Goldorak wrote:It’s still in closed beta for a little while longer. First public release will run on 10.15.

10.15.5? Or has Apple not delivered. Again.

Ppedall wrote:I use an iMac Pro with High Sierra and two 1080 ti's in eGPU cases, 64 GB RAM, 10 Cores. This system cost me about 10000 €!!!
After 20 years with Macs and endless waiting for Octane X, I additionally bought a refurbished 5 years old PC: 2x 2080 ti, 128 GB RAM, 24 Cores for 4000 €.
With Octane 2020 and RTX support it is 4,5 times faster than the Mac – for 2,5 times lower price.
So, if Octane X is coming, it hopefully will be as fast or even faster than the CUDA version.
If they just reach the same speed with a Mac Pro for 20000 € this will be the time to say goodbye to Apple even if they have the much much better OS.

The Mac platform is essentially more expensive than the Windows platform.
I am also waiting. If the rendering speed of OctaneX is not as efficient as CUDA-based Octane and the gap is obvious, I will give up Apple.