The latest Mac Pro model that appeared more than a year ago, with a groundbreaking design and a totally different philosophy regarding the integration of internal components compared to its predecessor, would be causing various graphical problems in different user-oriented applications. professionals.
The problems are mainly focused around DaVinci Resolve 11, the suite of tools related to color correction, post-processing, video export… powered by OpenCL. Already in May of this year, problems were reported in this regard where application crashes and different artifacts occurred in the video resulting from the export. At that moment was blamed on the software version (OS X Mavericks 10.9.3) where users were urged to wait for a new update or to downgrade to 10.9.2.
However, it seems that the problems still continue with the launch of OS X Yosemite. The cause of this incompatibility still remains unclear and in Apple support forums continue growing the number of complaints of users in this regard.
Other users have reported that the temporary solution to the problem is to install BootCamp on the Mac Pro and restart the computer in Windows, this would solve the problem but it is clear that it is not a definitive solution. It is believed that it may be a software problem where the graphic drivers do not act correctly on the cards and a correct air flow is not created to ventilate them well, producing overheating problems and the consequent image artifacts.
In short, as we have learned from the comments in the forums, the community of professional users would be quite disappointed and this together with other types of incidents such as the disastrous deployment of Final Cut Pro X, it would have gotten a large part of those professionals to go to Adobe.