External hardware for AE boosting render speed on realtime playback

[persyst]

Greetings,

I was wondering, is there any external hardware that I could purchase to boost the speed of rendering time of for realtime playback 

Would any of these Avid I/O units do this
https://www.avid.com/products/avid-artist-io/features

or is there some other external hardware I should look into?

Thanks!! 

System Specs:

Mac Pro 2013, MacOS Mojave 10.14.6
• 2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache
• 64GB (4x16GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
• 1TB PCIe-based flash storage
• Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM

Video file read/write drive
• G-Tech Studio RAID 24TB

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

Long and short: No and no. AE works completely different from an editing program and even if there was some fancy hardware, the situation would be no different with the already existing limited GPU acceleration - there's just too many ways to create projects that render CPU-only just by combining certain features. So for what it's worth, instead of spending money on specialized expensive hardware, simply buy another machine for rendering. Even a "slow" Mac mini chewing through your render jobs while you work on the main machine could likely boost your productivity a notch.

Mylenium

[persyst]

Got it, thank you much for the clear answer, this will save me time!!