Upgrading my Mac Pro Graphics Card

[PiranhaDesign]

Gtx285 unavailable everywhere???

Gtx285 is nowhere on the apple store. On all other website it's unavailable.

New graphics card today on the apple store but not compatible with my early 2008 Mac Pro. What are the option left for a real upgrade. I'm really unhappy with my 8800 512mb

Someone have a clue

Not the ati 4870 512 not that good for gaming.
Seam like apple are too stupid to give us a real choice. Stuck!!!

 

[akdj]

Give it a couple o' weeks. The new Pros are just being staged for shipping.

One of the sites will get the two new cards, I'd expect within the month...to do some testing on our early '08s (I have one too, and I'm still rockin' the 8800 as well).

It's going to be interesting...my primary concern being the new monitors, which we can't plug and play with the 8800, no DisplayPort.

Obviously though, the performance bump will be pretty awesome for those of us still using the 8800...and I've been VERY happy with mine. No issues, and I make my living video editing, compositing, and production. I also find an hour or two a week for X-Plane or MS FlightSimX (Windows/BC), and the 8800 has been pretty decent for my uses thus far.

I can't imagine the new cards won't work...but stranger things have happened. There is an imminent release of another nVidia FX (4000, I believe?) CUDA card in the next month or two...$999, but it's the one I'm REALLY looking into. As a video editor, these new cards with Premier are providing some UNBELIEVABLE benchmarks in post production.

It's definitely a good time to "Wait and See", IMHO

Jer

 

[Rowlander]

Sorry for reviving an old thread but this actually has relevance again:

With the new Final Cut being not what professionals wanted, many are probably right now looking at Adobe Premiere as an alternative.

I have downloaded the trial-version and unfortunately my GeForce 8800GT does not support the CUDA graphics-acceleration.
My Mac Pro is an early 2008 model.

Now I was interested in upgrading my graphics card to a more current Nvidia model that is supported by Premiere.
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

The list of supported cards narrows it down quite a bit: the only affordable Nvidia card that seems to be (officially) supported is the GeForce GTX 285. I´m not interested in the Quadro-cards, they are too expensive.

The GTX 285 is ooold! It came out in mid 2009 and it´s already very hard to even find a mac version of it to buy online.
Is that it? Is there no more current Nvidia graphics card on the market that would work with my (early 2008) Mac Pro?
Or is ATI the only choice now?
Where can I find out more?

 

[porkbus]

i am also in the same situation. i have been searching and don't really know much about graphics cards but definitely need more power than my current 8800 GT. I am also still rocking a 2008 mac pro. also using C4D R12 (soon to be R13), AE CS5.

would love to know what a current option would be for a new graphics card.

People with knowledge please help, any input would be appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[Igantius]

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Now I was interested in upgrading my graphics card to a more current Nvidia model that is supported by Premiere.
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

The list of supported cards narrows it down quite a bit: the only affordable Nvidia card that seems to be (officially) supported is the GeForce GTX 285. I´m not interested in the Quadro-cards, they are too expensive…

Regarding CUDA, I would have a look at this thread - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1178919/

Basically, it touches upon what areas that you would see an improvement with a Nvidia card that supports CUDA (and someone posted a video illustrating this with a 285 card). Pretty sure that it’s either a 285 or got with ATI for you.

i am also in the same situation. i have been searching and don't really know much about graphics cards but definitely need more power than my current 8800 GT. I am also still rocking a 2008 mac pro. also using C4D R12 (soon to be R13), AE CS5.

would love to know what a current option would be for a new graphics card.

I would take a look in the Mac Pro forum as there are quite a few threads. Personally, I would say the ATI 6870 – roughly the same performance as the 5870 but at a far cheaper price (whether you go for the Apple one or flash a stock PC card) and a lower price consumption. Works out of the box, but you’ll get a black boot screen (although Netkas has come up with an EFI ROM to overcome this - see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1214885/) and there are problems with the Apple DVD player and some Steam games (but that’s easy to fix via http://www.groths.org/?p=431 – a small download, a couple of clicks and you’re done... even I could do it ).

However, if you can hold out, waiting for the Mac Pro refresh would be a decent idea – but as I say, I like the 6870.