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2010 Mac Pro GPU?
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Always the optimist.......
Well, my laziness claim was based on Apple's past behavior with the older Xeons that came out, and Apple actually had them earlier than everyone else.
Also, considering the fact that they have never offered the latest and greatest video cards, that the likely mid-range candidate would be the ATI 5870XT. The low offering I imagine would be something nVidia related, and perhaps the high-end would be one of the new FireGL's.
If they are waiting for volume availability of the nVidia 480's, I would be most disappointed. Their performance isn't much higher than that of the 5870, and the power draw and thermal profile is off the scales.
Well, my laziness claim was based on Apple's past behavior with the older Xeons that came out, and Apple actually had them earlier than everyone else.
Also, considering the fact that they have never offered the latest and greatest video cards, that the likely mid-range candidate would be the ATI 5870XT. The low offering I imagine would be something nVidia related, and perhaps the high-end would be one of the new FireGL's.
If they are waiting for volume availability of the nVidia 480's, I would be most disappointed. Their performance isn't much higher than that of the 5870, and the power draw and thermal profile is off the scales.
That only happened once out of three chipset/architecture changes and two additional processor additions. Also the only time prices were ridiculous
I agree it will be disappointing if the 5870 isn't the official high end card option. Having looked at current card offerings over the past few days if you base it on Apple's past behaviour it seems the most likely candidate is probably the 470.
The 5870 has slightly better hardware performance, but for viewport rendering it will come down to the quality of the drivers.
Yeah. The PC version of the Eyefinity 6 5870XT are out already, with six mini displayports to drive up to 6 displays on one card. I'd rather have the dual-dvi version but hey, if it says 5870 I'm buying it.
As someone with an 09 with the stock GT120 I'd give an eyebrow for a decent $200-300 upgrade. You know, one that isn't a $90 card being sold for $399?