ATI Radeon 5770 in Mac Pro 2009 vs Geforce GT 120

[Mac Hammer Fan]

I don't play games. Would this card give a noticeable speed improvement vs the slow stock Geforce GT 120? Apple claims this card is 5 times faster.
I use Photoshop and do a lot of video-editing.

 

[Hellhammer]

What apps do you use for video encoding? If it's intensive enough, then a faster GPU will definitely help but it won't speed up iMovie

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

I use iMovie, FinalCut Express and Toast Titanium 10.

 

[3587]

Night/day difference in even regular tasks... I replaced my GT 120 with the 5770, even moving windows around is nicer... Major speed improvement. Get it.

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

Night/day difference in even regular tasks... I replaced my GT 120 with the 5770, even moving windows around is nicer... Major speed improvement. Get it.

I also have the QuadCore Nehalem. Could you post the xBench results?
TIA

 

[Inconsequential]

I also have the QuadCore Nehalem. Could you post the xBench results?
TIA

It's slightly slower than the 4870 so if you search for results for that

 

[3587]

Never benchmarked it... Just know that it is MUCH faster than the GT 120... I also had the GTX 285 and for what I did, I didn't notice anything less going down to the 5770. Just get it, you'll love it!

I also have the QuadCore Nehalem. Could you post the xBench results?
TIA

 

[2contagious]

My GT120 is virtually silent.. can't hear it at all.. whereas my 5870 card (2010 Mac Pro) is probably the loudest piece of hardware in there

Is it normal that the GT120 is so crap that it can't even display the stack opening in a grid animation smoothly?

 

[Inconsequential]

My GT120 is virtually silent.. can't hear it at all.. whereas my 5870 card (2010 Mac Pro) is probably the loudest piece of hardware in there

Is it normal that the GT120 is so crap that it can't even display the stack opening in a grid animation smoothly?

The GT120 can play games pretty well at 1920x1200 even with some AA and AF.

It's just **** coding from Apple on the animations front, the 4870 does lag abit too (Time-machine animation for example).

 

[Transporteur]

My GT120 is virtually silent.. can't hear it at all.. whereas my 5870 card (2010 Mac Pro) is probably the loudest piece of hardware in there

It's the other way round in my system. The GT120 definitely is way louder than the 4870, but it might have a bad fan, I'm not sure.