Speed grade lag on iMac

Hi,
I'm experiencing considerable lag / latency when making color adjustments in speedgrade using direct link from premiere?
It's rendered it pretty much un-usable for me. Frustrating, given that I reply on it for my grading jobs.
Im on an iMac:
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63b)
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
RAM: 20 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB
Any known problems or issues? If so is there a fix on the way?
I believe this isn't a problem on PC.
Thanks Terry

There have been problems that are on both platforms, including lag/latency issues. Some of them can be more numerous on Mac, especially certain OS dot-updates that caused mega problems. They've worked hard to get those fixed, and seem to be fewer complaints on the board here.
I would note that unfortunately the Adobe apps are still semi-nVidia centric, and though working vastly better with the Radeon cards than say a year ago, they still work better in general with nVidia. Note the "in general" ... as it seems to be somewhat variable. Some people have screaming results with a Radeon, and my desktop's EVGA GTX770 with its 1536 CUDA cores and 4Gb's of speedy vRAM ... is barely utilized within any of the Adobe DVA's.
That said, a card with 1 gig of vRAM isn't giving a lot of assistance ... so that could be one problem. Note that "it works fine with PrPro" isn't really applicable, as they are SO different in use of v-cards. My laptop has only an on-board video ... chip-set/sort-of ... and though PrPro seems to run ok on it, and Sg loads, the only way I can see anything in the monitor during playback is to hold the mouse over the monitor window and click ... totally useless for working in Sg. That's how different the two programs are code/resource wise.
Also, the disc arrangement ... where and how many discs are used & the connections to each ... can be crucial to how well this responds real-time. Multiple internal discs with various things such as project files, footage, cache/database put on separate connections or a LARGE RAID array is good ... externals on eSATA/Thunderbolt are fine ... Usb 3 or lower, not so much. Real-life throughput is crucial.
You might check over on the Hardware Forum, and especially go to the Tweaker's Page, and there study the stuff on how to setup & tune a system for the Adobe DVA's.
Hardware Forum
Tweakers Page
Neil

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