Quadro K5000 GPU & Mac Pro

You want to spend $2200 but don't know what you have.

www.apple.com/support/macpro

PCI is pre-G5

And you should hang out and listen to the discussions over there and other forums for now.

Buy some salt, you'll need it, the marketing folks always tend to mis-ddirect on the technical requirements too.

2008. EFI64. Supports 10.8+ Has PCIe 2.x

So do 2009. and 2010. And the refreshed 2012.

You saw the Q4000 was $1195. But the same card (PNY) on Amazon $799. GTX 6xx work in 10.8 w/o boot screen but other wise fine. You can buy one and have it flashed by MacVidCards.

You thought it was What? $$ instead of $2200 I guess. PC versions of Quadro line are never cheap but cheaper by half compared to Mac usually.

There is no limitation other than just like the 5770, it was sold without certifying it worked in all Mac Pro models or that audio in older models would not... But it looks like the supported resolution of Q5k and 4 monitors and 4GB means future support that we can only guess.

That is a $4500 (2) hole somewhere... for a set of drivers. How does it compare to say GTX 680 (leaving the 690 out because that one uses SLI) 3-4GB models? Which are in the $600 ballpark I think.

They wouldn't have a large enough market if they said "PCIe 3.0" or Westmere only to justify making any, so like every other Nvidia card issue it boils down to Mountain Lion and EFI64 almost assuradely.

Cindori started a thread:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1435547

Why not check the thread on how CUDA and 3D work with GTX?

Release October, for $2,249

Or, how can Barefeats or anyone tel until it ships? can't really say can we.

http://www.barefeats.com/rogue02.html

http://www.barefeats.com/rogue01.html

There are those who pay extra to have GTX 570 flashed PC card to boost CS6 wtih CUDA.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1366650

Juice Mac Pro Photoshop w/ video card:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365904

Fastest GPU Mac Pro with EFI Support (the GTX 570 discussion)

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1360927

- jump to the end of the thread first, then go backwards

http://www.barefeats.com/aecs6.html

Maybe this will help make up your mind. Timing and budget

the GTX 670 is going to be a really well valued video card.

http://nl.hardware.info/nieuws/27582/point-of-view-heeft-geforce-gtx-670-gereed

The GTX 570 2.5GB was the one recommended with its 2.5GB VRAM. $349.

As Condi said, you pay for support and maybe hope for drivers though Quadro on Mac has not always ever been totally stellar.

get a $350 GTX 570 2.5GB