Apple Afterburner Card

Apple Afterburner Card

Created to transform the workflow for film and video professionals, Afterburner accelerates ProRes and ProRes RAW video codecs in Final Cut Pro X, QuickTime Player X and supported third-party applications. A PCI Express card exclusively for Mac Pro, Afterburner can be installed in any full-length slot, but it delivers maximum capability in a PCIe x16 slot.

• 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*

What’s in the Box
• Apple Afterburner card

System Requirements
• Mac Pro (2019)

* Testing conducted by Apple in November 2019 using pre-production 2.5GHz 28-core Intel Xeon W-based Mac Pro systems with 384GB of RAM and dual AMD Radeon Pro Vega II graphics with Infinity Fabric Link and 32GB of HBM2 each, configured with Afterburner and a 4TB SSD. Mac Pro systems tested with an attached 5K display. Tested with Final Cut Pro 10.4.7 using a 50-second picture-in-picture project with six streams of Apple ProRes RAW video at 8192×4320 resolution and 29.97 frames per second, a 50-second picture-in-picture project with 23 streams of Apple ProRes RAW video at 4096×2160 resolution and 29.97 frames per second, and a 5-minute picture-in-picture project with 16 streams of Apple ProRes 422 video at 4096×2160 resolution and 30 frames per second. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Mac Pro.