Light 4K Editing with RX 580 8GB

[The Right Honourable Jimmy]

Setup

Macbook Pro 2016 w/ Touchbar

3.1GHz dual-core Intel Core i5

8GB RAM

and 

Radeon 580 8GB eGPU with AKiTiO Node over Thunderport 3 (40 Gb/s) 

 

Currently waiting for the akitio Node to arrive. I was just wondering would this setup be okay for some light 4k editing work and mild after effects in 4K?

I am aware that the egpu enclosure means around 10% loss of the GPU power but wondering if the GPU which I have is beefy enough?

 

Side note, does Mac support AMD freesync or do I have to do it through bootcamp?

[Alexzz_]

mac does not support freesync, and as for the question of the editing, it can be done but it is certainly not a recommended setup.

[Audherbagn]

It should be fine, the rx 580 is sufficient however I would suggest a stronger cpu with more cores (either coffee lake or ryzen), however I do understand that it is a mac, and as long as you don't try anything too complex it should be fine

[Cooloff]

One word: Proxies

 

Editing in 4k is very rarely done without using proxy files. Smaller files that you can create, use for the edit then relink the 4k version before encoding.

 

Some software is better than others, I'd recommend Premiere Pro.