ha! Every little bit helps there!
Seriously, what is performance like using this card anyway? Gaming in particular?
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ha! Every little bit helps there!
Seriously, what is performance like using this card anyway? Gaming in particular?
ha! Every little bit helps there!
Seriously, what is performance like using this card anyway? Gaming in particular?
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal11.html
(with original drivers)
Only up to 20%? I wonder how many Mac Pros are used for Mac gaming combined and not just using that video card. Plus I would think out of the box the GTX 285 would be fast enough compared to what is available anyways.
I'm looking forward to getting a Mac Pro especially for gaming. Nothing is every fast enough though, especially when a couple years go by.
I just heard that my Mac Pro has been ordered ^^
Will Evga provide adapters
I wonder if Apple or Evga will provide adaptors for those who own a LED display, CinemaView is coming out with Dvi to Mini-Display port wonder if it will work on the LED cinema if CinemaView sales the adapter separately, For those that have LED displays may be out of luck owning this GPU unless a 3rd party comes out with something so that owners with LED won't be left out
I wonder if Apple or Evga will provide adaptors for those who own a LED display, CinemaView is coming out with Dvi to Mini-Display port wonder if it will work on the LED cinema if CinemaView sales the adapter separately, For those that have LED displays may be out of luck owning this GPU unless a 3rd party comes out with something so that owners with LED won't be left out
That would be a reason not to buy this card.
That is so, so annoying.
It seems you can't re-install Leopard once this card has been installed.
Works fine in a 2,1 MacPro as well, with a kext insertion into the driver package, and a proper boot card in slot1.
Zero issues in BC, as you noted.
Card sucks on a Mac Pro Nehalem 8-Core...
Got a new Mac Pro 8-Core 2.26Ghz with 16GB RAM and the GTX285...
I am extremely disappointed at the quality and speed of this card. Photoshop images stutter and vertical scrolling, especially black text on white background scrolling has ghosting and a "scanner" effect on the screen.
Aperture 2 is slower than my 3 year old quad 3.0GHz Mac Pro with ATI X1900.
Video playback is not smooth, and also resizing the video window while playing is not smooth but stuttery...
I was so disappointed with this card that I got myself an ATI 4870 HD and I must say it is much better. I never liked NVIDIA. They always had some problem with their cards. No wonder Apple is going to switch back to ATI.
I am not a gamer, no time for games here. I expected a professional card for the money and at 1GB of memory it should be wicked fast but not...
I already got my RMA from Mac Mall. So, if u are a serious gamer, get a playstation instead and get an ATI card for your Mac Pro.
Got a new Mac Pro 8-Core 2.26Ghz with 16GB RAM and the GTX285...
I am extremely disappointed at the quality and speed of this card. Photoshop images stutter and vertical scrolling, especially black text on white background scrolling has ghosting and a "scanner" effect on the screen.
Aperture 2 is slower than my 3 year old quad 3.0GHz Mac Pro with ATI X1900.
Video playback is not smooth, and also resizing the video window while playing is not smooth but stuttery...
I was so disappointed with this card that I got myself an ATI 4870 HD and I must say it is much better. I never liked NVIDIA. They always had some problem with their cards. No wonder Apple is going to switch back to ATI.
I am not a gamer, no time for games here. I expected a professional card for the money and at 1GB of memory it should be wicked fast but not...
I already got my RMA from Mac Mall. So, if u are a serious gamer, get a playstation instead and get an ATI card for your Mac Pro.
I bench tested the GTX 285 and the 8800 GT with X-Plane under the exact same conditions in both WinXP and OSX.
X-Plane, 1600 x 1200, 8xAA, Extreme Rendering:
The 8800 GT Mac Edition under OSX... averaged 44.8 fps.
The 8800 GT Mac Edition under WinXP averaged 103.6 fps.
The GTX 285 Mac Edition under OSX....averaged 121.0 fps.
The GTX 285 Mac Edition under WinXP averaged 165.8 fps.
I am very happy with my GTX 285.
Yes, I would prefer it worked under OSX as well as it works under Boot Camp.
The solution? I use Boot Camp for games.
If I were only using my Mac Pro with pro applications, I would go with the HD 4870.
But for pro applications and gaming, my video card of choice is the GTX 285.
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Apple really should include these drivers in 10.5.8. Afterall it's still in beta, so now is the time to be adding in new features. Then there wouldn't be any concerns about system hangs for existing users or future users. The ATI HD3870 Mac & PC Edition was never bundled in Apple products, yet I'm pretty sure it always used standard OS X drivers and not separate downloads. Although admittedly, given the hardware similarities, it's the HD3870 is probably using the same driver base as the HD2xxx. Still, I can't see why Apple can't do the same for nVidia, especially if their relationship is so good.
It's only a matter of time anyways. nVidia's latest mobile GPUs are DX10.1 and based on a refreshed GT200 architecture. The GT240M is basically the 9600M GT's direct replacement having the same TDP and will likely find it's way in the next MacBook Pro refresh to complement Clarksfield or Arrandale. The GT240M would likely share the same driver base as the GTX285.
It's only a matter of time anyways. nVidia's latest mobile GPUs are DX10.1 and based on a refreshed GT200 architecture. The GT240M is basically the 9600M GT's direct replacement having the same TDP and will likely find it's way in the next MacBook Pro refresh to complement Clarksfield or Arrandale. The GT240M would likely share the same driver base as the GTX285.
Yes it is some what of a pain. How do you propose that Apple magically integrates the drivers into the Mac OS discs that are already in population?
$449.00 WOW, what a bargain!
Is Apple EVER going to stop fleecing the Mac Pro customers with BTO video cards?
I guess the EFI implementation costs $149.00. Yeah..... that must be it.
Where are you finding it for 300? The cheapest I have seen the PC version is 314 (on newegg).
Sweet!!!
...... ........ now, only if they had good games to play on that mac it would be GREAT!
Perhaps Apple could copy Microsoft's innovations in this area - the MS installers can download updated and missing components from the network while you are installing. If you have newer hardware, or if some subtle bugs have been fixed in code on the discs - just automatically update on the fly.
Nice, eh?
$449.00 WOW, what a bargain!
Is Apple EVER going to stop fleecing the Mac Pro customers with BTO video cards?
I guess the EFI implementation costs $149.00. Yeah..... that must be it.
I guess as long as Mac users keep paying Apple anything they ask, they'll keep pushing that thumb down on your backs.
Pressing ctrl and r together will bring up a framerate counter, or at least it does on Windows. I can't be bothered to reboot into OSX to test sorry.
I'm looking forward to playing Crysis on very high settings. I'm also happy that I'll finally be able to see X-Plane at good frame rates with high settings!
The cost is pretty high, but I don't really care since it looks like I'm getting a 2.93GHz 8-core Mac Pro, the GTX 285, a 30" and 20" apple display for free. (I hope)
I thought that was Gentoo.
Intelligent installers are always welcome, I just have that nagging feeling that BSD-derivative systems were there (WAY) before MS.