estherau posted at 8:55AM Sun, 13 September 2015 - #4228050

It's still possible to stick an Nvidia Tesla GPU computation engine in a Thunderbolt (interface) PCI Express expansion box, and attach that to a Mac (computer), so yes I'd say you're making a lot of assumptions.

I suggest you do your research on how Pixar does their rendering; what you're suggesting is fine for a home computer, but they are doing render farms, thus what you're suggesting isn't feasible. That's why Pixar licensed Nvidia tech to accelerate their rendering of their movies. They wouldn't need to buy macs, they would simply send the data to nvidia boxes which contain MULTIPLE video cards and would cost the same as one mac pro, but render many times faster.

So rather than 2000 macs, they would just use a few hundred gpu render boxes. Makes sense now, right? Cost effective, not emotional and not feasible.