Latest OS X 10.8.3 Beta Adds NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Graphics Card Drivers

[simonmet]

Do you even know what you are talking about?

First the 7970, 7950, 7870 and 7770 are supported as of 10.8.3. The 7990 is a dual GPU and there never has been Crossfire in Mac or SLI for that matter and there are no signs this is changing.

Second you can put any GPU in a Mac Pro without voiding the warranty.

Last the K5000 is meant for 3D work such as CS applications. Apple looks at the needs of developers not gamers. So I ask you to only comment on such items that you are informed about and know what the purpose of such a machine is designed for.

Thanks, but I know exactly what I'm talking about. Nothing you said was any news to me whatsoever and I didn't say anything that was incorrect. The K5000 is a mid-range Pro card and far from AMDs best just like I said. But thanks for the rant.

I said "possibly" void warranty and if you're so sure that it doesn't perhaps you can explain to the forum how one might install a 7990 (or 7970) into the existing Mac Pro with its two 75W 6-pin power connectors available to the PCI slots.

 

[Rampage Dev]

Thanks, but I know exactly what I'm talking about. Nothing you said was any news to me whatsoever and I didn't say anything that was incorrect. The K5000 is a mid-range Pro card and far from AMDs best just like I said. But thanks for the rant.

I said "possibly" void warranty and if you're so sure that it doesn't perhaps you can explain to the forum how one might install a 7990 (or 7970) into the existing Mac Pro with its two 75W 6-pin power connectors available to the PCI slots.

The K5000 is currently the highest Pro card on the market for Mac OS X or for any other OS at the moment and does things that the AMD card's could never do. The new Titan Card works under Mac OS X as well.

As for the AMD 7xxx Series. The drivers are self initiating:

http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,5086.0.html

You can use a external power supply or a 6 to 8 pin PCIe Power Adaptor.

 

[Bubba Satori]

The K5000 is a mid-range Pro card and far from AMDs best just like I said.

Wrong.
You should check out the reviews and benchmarks at Tom's Hardware, Anand's,
Guru3D, Hot Hardware, Ars Technica and many others before you make patently
inaccurate statements like that. Seriously.

 

[Kashchei]

This driver issue convinces me that when 10.8.3 is finally released, it will be renamed 10.9. It will be advertised as having hundreds of new features, including new graphic drivers and other features--wi-fi and fast shutdown--that now actually work. /rant

 

[Andreasen]

Wait! Can you change graphics cards in a Mac pro?

 

[sn1p3r845]

I'll ask again, maybe someone knows, anyone know anything about shipping dates for the Mac K5000?

I've been having lots of email conversations back and forth with my rep from www.ncix.com and he informed me he can get the card in for me no problem in Quarter 1 of 2013 (still waiting). The last I heard from him on March 4, 2013 is "I got a response (for availability), but I'm not allowed to share it yet. "

sounds like it'll be very very soon.

 

[brunerd]

By NAB...

A coworker had this brilliant insight: "When's NAB"
Duh.

Apple HAS to have a new Mac Pro announced by April 6-11, NAB 2013.

Otherwise the show will be nothing but folks bitching about Mac Pro's measly speed bump last fall, without any Thunderbolt ports, no USB 3, etc... even if they won't be shipping for a month or longer, Apple will at least announce the new Mac Pro by NAB so folks'll have something positive to say about Apple and the Pro market and not be looking to jump ship! Perhaps they'll throw in a new Logic Pro release and a Final Cut X update too? Some sort of "Focus on the Pro market" things, seems Apple gets monomaniacal and has refocus on the things that have been getting long in the tooth... over and over again... "Back to the Mac"?

 

[wilhoitm]

I'm confused...

Isn't the Quadro K5000 a PCI Express 3.0 card? Won't it be crippled in the current Mac Pro?

 

[Socrates NL]

PNY Europe will release the card on monday to their partners

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A coworker had this brilliant insight: "When's NAB"
Duh.

Apple HAS to have a new Mac Pro announced by April 6-11, NAB

mmm I dont think they will clear the supermeet again...
Apple wil has Its own pace
April-June timeframe or a silent death

 

[pcd109]

OSX is bad for pro

Isn't the Quadro K5000 a PCI Express 3.0 card? Won't it be crippled in the current Mac Pro?

The main issue is not the driver for graphics card. Apple OSX it's the issue, as it does not have support for latest Opengl. In fact it's one year behind even Linux!!! This says everything about Apple commitment to the pro market. I mean, even Linux witch is open source(as in free) has support for OpenGL 4.3, while Apple is still at.... 3.2! How the heck to justify the purchase of a 2300$ card for an operating system witch doesn't have support for it's features?!? I am glad that i dumped Apple last year, they have zero interest in the pro market nowadays. Where are the days when Apple introduced production features in the OS? All they do now is to offer 'twitter' integration. Oau, i am so excited that we have so many eye candy that i will drop 6000$(yeap, that's the cost of 2x6 core mac 'pro' in Europe) on a 'workstation' with 2 years old hardware and no support for professional OpenGl drivers. What a joke, i wonder when they will start to fall.

 

[cosmicz]

Where to look for the driver

I have a Quadro K5000 card at the office, and I wan't to test it in a MacPro.
Where can I see if the driver made it to the 10.8.3 release?

_Kasper

 

[wilhoitm]

Isn't the Quadro K5000 a PCI Express 3.0 card? Won't it be crippled in the current Mac Pro?

Wow, I went to the Nvidia web site and the Quadro K5000 and Quadro K6000 cards are both PCI Express 2.0 x16 cards. While the Geforce TITAN is a PCI Express 3.0 card. Am I missing something here?

 

[sn1p3r845]

guys.. guys...

GUYS...


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133486

 

[omnious]

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