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Nvidia Quadro 4000 appears on Apple Online Store (USA) [EDIT 3 Nov 12: Pulled again!]
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Not really!
Shows "currently unavailable" for shipping. Apple marketing at its worst.
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the one they got on newegg looks like it will work with mac. it says that it is multi OS capable quite a bit cheaper I think i'm gonna go for it, all the drivers for mac are available from the nvidia site
I think i'm gonna go for it, all the drivers for mac are available from the nvidia sitethe one they got on newegg looks like it will work with mac. it says that it is multi OS capable quite a bit cheaper
The non-Mac version bangs on about Windows and Linux so is Multi-OS capable. Let us know how you get on with it though.
By the Quadro for the PC flash it and reinstall? It may be harder, but at least you get the card??
Just my 2 cents
Just my 2 cents
the one they got on newegg looks like it will work with mac. it says that it is multi OS capable quite a bit cheaper
This is what they mean by multi OS capable:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/sli_multi_os.html
Won't work on Mac.
still 1-2 months and 1299.99 in Canada... 1-2 months and 1199.95 in US.... glad I decided to stop waiting and save money and just get the 5870
J&R is showing stock on these for $820 and it looks like B&H will soon have these as well, likely for a similar price.
Seeing as the PC version is available in the UK for 781.38 inc VAT isn't too bad a price for the mac version.
Best price at the moment appears to be buy.com
Comes out to $775 with the $10 off coupon. Just ordered mine and will be sure to report back how it works under both Snow Leopard and Windows 7.
Comes out to $775 with the $10 off coupon. Just ordered mine and will be sure to report back how it works under both Snow Leopard and Windows 7.
Quadro 4000 for mac in the mail
Got a tracking number for my quadro 4000 from my account manager. Paid about $825 for it. Due to be delivered on Friday.
Got a tracking number for my quadro 4000 from my account manager. Paid about $825 for it. Due to be delivered on Friday.
Got my Quadro 4000 for Mac installed now.
Card is rather loud at startup, but throttles back about a minute or two after bootup. It is still louder than the near-silent GT120 after throttle-back, but very tolerable for how much power it uses. It does run scaldingly hot, though, compared to the GT120 (touch test).
On the Windows side, wonderful card, but it won't play along with a GT120 simultaneously installed in the system (works fine under MAC OS with both, though) Given that I got the card for running Solidworks under Windows 7, I rather appreciate that this part of things works well.
On the mac side, it could still use some work. While quite a bit faster than the GT120, the current drivers don't have OpenCL support (useful in Capture One 6). Likewise, as per OpenGL Extensions viewer, only upto OpenGL 2.1 is fully supported under MacOS, but this is likely Apple's fault.
I also found that with the Quadro 4000 installed (using the drivers from Nvidia's site for 10.6.5), Starcraft II will no longer launch. It loads fine, and hangs at the battle.net login screen. I can still move the mouse around and sound continues to play, but I can't click and/or type anything. Only way out of it is to reboot system.
I got in touch with Blizzard to see if they can replicate the issue and/or get NVidia to look into it.
I don't yet use any CUDA applications so nothing to report yet on that front.
Will keep ya'll updated as to anything further.
Card is rather loud at startup, but throttles back about a minute or two after bootup. It is still louder than the near-silent GT120 after throttle-back, but very tolerable for how much power it uses. It does run scaldingly hot, though, compared to the GT120 (touch test).
On the Windows side, wonderful card, but it won't play along with a GT120 simultaneously installed in the system (works fine under MAC OS with both, though) Given that I got the card for running Solidworks under Windows 7, I rather appreciate that this part of things works well.
On the mac side, it could still use some work. While quite a bit faster than the GT120, the current drivers don't have OpenCL support (useful in Capture One 6). Likewise, as per OpenGL Extensions viewer, only upto OpenGL 2.1 is fully supported under MacOS, but this is likely Apple's fault.
I also found that with the Quadro 4000 installed (using the drivers from Nvidia's site for 10.6.5), Starcraft II will no longer launch. It loads fine, and hangs at the battle.net login screen. I can still move the mouse around and sound continues to play, but I can't click and/or type anything. Only way out of it is to reboot system.
I got in touch with Blizzard to see if they can replicate the issue and/or get NVidia to look into it.
I don't yet use any CUDA applications so nothing to report yet on that front.
Will keep ya'll updated as to anything further.
A few further updates. Under Windows, the Quadro will not run Starcraft II as well. With the latest WHQL driver, it locks up when going to load a mission. With the (much newer) Cuda 3.2 drivers, it locks up when loading the application.
The card is advertized for DirectX11 support according to NVidia's site, but it only supports DirectX 10.1 as per DXDiag and 10.0 as per NVidia system information.
At this point, it feels like the drivers aren't all the way mature for the Fermi Quadro cards.
I have a Quadro FX1800 on the way for another workstation and I'll be glad to report how that compares.
The card is advertized for DirectX11 support according to NVidia's site, but it only supports DirectX 10.1 as per DXDiag and 10.0 as per NVidia system information.
At this point, it feels like the drivers aren't all the way mature for the Fermi Quadro cards.
I have a Quadro FX1800 on the way for another workstation and I'll be glad to report how that compares.
Just wondering, as you seem to be the first person to actually report having one, could you do some benchmarks (cinebench etc) so we can see how it compares to the 5870? pretty please
Why? NVidia handles the Quadro drivers.
Just wondering, as you seem to be the first person to actually report having one, could you do some benchmarks (cinebench etc) so we can see how it compares to the 5870? pretty please
The 5870 is a much faster card. More mhz, more cores. The GTX 285 is also very likely faster.
For those interested, the Quadro 4000 scored 23.46fps under 10.6.5 in Cinebench 11.5. The same card scores 55.90fps under Windows 7 64bit with Nvidia's 265.90 drivers.
My system is a 2.66ghz Mac Pro 4,1 Nehalem single cpu 2009 tower with 12gb memory.
It seems that yes, both ATI and NVidia are responsible for the drivers for their respective cards, but Apple provides the libraries that those drivers can interface with. Just as Snow Leopard vastly improved OpenGL2 support, it is likely we'll see something similar with OpenGL3/4 support in Lion.
My system is a 2.66ghz Mac Pro 4,1 Nehalem single cpu 2009 tower with 12gb memory.
It seems that yes, both ATI and NVidia are responsible for the drivers for their respective cards, but Apple provides the libraries that those drivers can interface with. Just as Snow Leopard vastly improved OpenGL2 support, it is likely we'll see something similar with OpenGL3/4 support in Lion.
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