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EVGA GTX 285 Mac Edition

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EVGA is proud to announce the highest performing graphics card for the Mac today; the EVGA GTX 285 Mac Edition! With 1GB of DDR3 memory and 240 processing cores, your performance is maximized with graphics-intensive applications like 3D gaming, motion graphics, 3D modeling, rendering and animation. Take full advantage of the performance using NVIDIA CUDA and OpenGL applications. Upgrade your Mac Pro system with the EVGA GTX 285 Mac Edition today for extreme performance!

This has probably already been asked before, but I can't find if it supports the 2006 Mac Pro models? Wait nevermind. It says that it supports 2008 and 2009 on Apple's website. Darn! I wonder if it will work anyway? If someone tries it please let me know.
 
pcs gtx285 works just fine(in osx) in macpro 1,1/2,1 with my injector kext :)
 
not sure about dual-dvi, no reports yet,
and, as usual with such solution - no video output untill OSX booted to gui (desktop or login screen)
 
Thanks BareFeats for the post. I saw another sites spec on the card and was a little de-hearten, since I alright pre-order the card. ;)
 
ventro said:
Snow Leopard's OpenCL doesn't support the 285
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How do you know this, other than the fact that its not currently listed on apple's site? Seems like if it uses NVidia drivers like the GT120, it should be supported?
 
Now that some of the cards arrive i hope that someone here will release the drivers an the efi for flashing a pc card.
 
ventro said:
Snow Leopard's OpenCL doesn't support the 285
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It's not yet listed on the spec sheet for OpenCL supported cards. However, I've been told by some folks that it does support OpenCL. Whether that happens or not is another story. My fingers are certainly crossed.
 
I went to Compu2000 this afternoon for regarding my Mac pro (early 2008) which was repairing in that store, the staff was really excited to introduce the new Mac Evga GTX285 video card to me, but I just bought 4870 a few weeks ago.

Anyone has got this video card and plz post the Rom for flashing a PC version,thanks
 
wow i really wanna get one but i have a 2007 mac pro its a Mac Pro 1,1

If there is a way to get this thing to work on my mac pro it would be totally awesome.

I need to upgrade anyway since Snow Leopard is coming and i wanna make use of the Open-CL. I am still using the X1900XT that came when i first bought it.
 
I really want it available for Europe (you know, all countries in the EC without the UK as they don't them selves as part of Europe).

It's not in the Dutch Apple store available (yet).
 
netkas said:
not sure about dual-dvi, no reports yet,
and, as usual with such solution - no video output untill OSX booted to gui (desktop or login screen)
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It supports Dual-DVI. http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/evga-rolls-out-geforce-gtx-285-graphics-card-for-mac-pros/

1GB of DDR3 memory, a whopping 240 processing cores, a memory clock speed a 2,584MHz, memory bandwidth of 159GB/sec, and a pair of dual-link DVI ports that can each drive a 30-inch monitor at 2,560 x 1,600
 
Just installed it. Very disappointed so far. Runs CUDA examples about 1/8 speed of the PC version in the same Mac Pro. Drivers released last night make no real difference. Anybody found some config settings to sort it out??
 
10THzMac said:
Just installed it. Very disappointed so far. Runs CUDA examples about 1/8 speed of the PC version in the same Mac Pro. Drivers released last night make no real difference. Anybody found some config settings to sort it out??
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Doesn't sound too promising at this point in time. Looks like I'll be holding off a little longer until they sort out the driver issue. I really don't want to wait till Snow Leo though.
 
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