Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Im using a Samsung one right now and its 1080p but even when i watch 1080p movies on the display the lines and colors are blocky and i cant fix this. So i was thinking maybe if i bought an older apple display like the Cinema display that this would be a better fit. Im not in video editing or anything I just want a good quality display to show the full potential of the computer.
Thanks for your time
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), My monitor is a Samsung
> if you are doing video or picture editing you need a graphics card
> with like 1gb of ram and a high GPU
Graphics card requirements are constantly increasing. 4 years ago a single GPU with 256MB of GDDR 4 RAM was sufficient.
Nowadays, people are looking more towards 1.5GB to 2GB, and the new Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition has 3GB of DDR5 memory.
That increased "texture" memory (and DirectX 11 graphics) faster GPU's allow for hardware physics and tesellation (to be processed by the GPU's) and also allow for "realistic" and "life-like" graphics (that look almost "movie" like).
It's only a matter of time before computer gaming, and computer graphics/animations become more "life like".
Modern graphics cards are becoming extremely powerful, and modern GPU's are quite capable of doing "super computing" levels of processing. Which is great for encoding/decoding video (such as H.264 or H.265 or H.266).
Hopefully we'll begin to see H.265 encoded movies over the next year, and possibly even see H.266 movies over the next 2-3 years. That will cut file sizes in nearly half (for H.265 over H.264) and cut file sizes in one fourth (for H.266 over H.264).
So hopefully we'll begin to see better video encoding/decoding, and faster graphics cards (with faster GPU's) that can easily handle the real-time encoding/decoding of much higher quality movies (8K4K resolution, encoded with H.265 and H.266).
> So since apple hasnt updated their graphics drivers yet would it be better
> to just wait it out
Unfortunately you could be waiting forever. 😟
If I want to do anything (and use my Apple Mac Pro for anything other than a paper weight), I am forced to just boot directly into Windows.
It *****, but Windows at least has graphics drivers support for modern graphics cards, and modern day hardware. Apple is still about 2-3 years (at a minimum) behind normal PC's, and in some areas about 3-5 years behind in software development (Blu-Ray support and 3D Blu-ray support, and 4K2K 3D Blu-Ray support).
> or are their others out there that are supported
The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, Radeon HD 7990 (dual GPU) and GTX 680 and GTX 690 (dual GPU) are the four best graphics cards out on the market right now.
A Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is the best graphics card for the price (can be purchased for about $389-$419). It's the best performance for the price, plus it has 3GB of DDR5 texture memory (much more than the 2GB on a GTX 680).
Unfortunately Apple is extremely slow at writing graphics drivers, or adding hardware support to OS X.
It's already been almost a year, and we still don't have graphics drivers for the Radeon HD 7970 yet.
So I'm not sure if Apple will just give up on building decent computers, and stick to trying to make/sell cell phones and iPads, or if they will actually get off their backside, and fire everyone that is on the Apple Mac Pro product development team, and hire a few EVGA and ASUS engineers (and maybe 1 or 2 people from Google) and start developing a decent 2013 Apple Mac Pro.
Only time will tell, but we're already about 2-3 years behind the PC sector when it comes to hardware and graphics cards. About 3-5 years behind the PC sector when it comes to Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray 3D support.
> or are their others out there that are supported that are just as good
Nope, unfortunately Apple OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion doesn't support much of anything (as of right now) and it's been like "pulling teeth" trying to get graphics card (hardware) support in the latest Mac OS X.
Unfortunately, as it stands, you'd be forced to just put the graphics cards into your Apple Mac Pro, and then boot directly into Windows because Mac OS X really doesn't support any decent hardware at the moment.
The four best graphics cards out at the moment are the Radeon HD 7970, Radeon HD 7990, GTX 680 and GTX 690.
For the price, the Radeon HD 7970 is the best graphics card (for the price). With 3GB of DDR5 memory (3GB of texture memory) and it's quite a bit lower price than a GTX 680 (with only 2GB of DDR5). So the price/performance of a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition really can't be beat at this point in time.
Unfortunately, who knows how long we'll have to wait to get graphics drivers support in OS X 10.8.2 to support the latest Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics cards.
I have 27 Apple Mac Pro's (at the office) and four Apple Mac Pro's at home, and I have Radeon HD 7970's in all of them. Great graphics card, but unfortunately I'm still waiting on Apple to release graphics drivers for the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.
In the meantime, I'm forced to just boot directly into Windows if I want to use the graphics cards.
It's quite sad, but Apple is quite a bit behind the PC sector, and I'm not sure if they'll ever catch up. I was shocked that Apple release a "2012" Apple Mac Pro that didn't even have USB 3.0, or PCIe 3.0, or native Blu-Ray 3D support, or even a 4K2K 3D Blu-Ray burner (128GB BDXL disc support). The 2012 Apple Mac Pro didn't even have Thunderbolt?
I'm not quite sure what is going on over at Apple, but the whole Apple Mac Pro product development team really needs to be fired, and Apple needs to get a few engineers from EVGA and start using an EVGA SR-X motherboard with seven PCIe 3.0 slots, and dual processor sockets, and just build a nice brushed aluminum EATX case for standard motherboards, so that Apple Mac users can start using decent COTS (commercial off the shelf) hardware.
Apple should focus more on Apple OS X development (updating hardware/graphics drivers) to support a much wider range of hardware, and begin building Apple Mac Pro's based on the much faster and much more powerful PC hardware that is available.
It's sad that it might be another 3-5 years, before Apple can even compete with a PC motherboard from 2010.
See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0qVZz-ot6k
For the price that we are paying for an Apple Mac Pro, we should actually get decent hardware instead of $600-$800 worth of hardware and paying a huge $2,400+ price (which is nothing more than record 400% to 500% profits for Apple).
Apple should be offering us better hardware (the latest and greatest hardware) at a much more affordable price (around $1,800 with an SR-X Motherboard and dual-socket Xeon's).
Im mean when i bought the mac pro i knew that upgrading it would be harder and that most hardware wouldnt be support and most likely only a lot of the high end hardware would be supported. But this is not acceptable, Apple prides themself's by say that they are "ahead of the curve" or that they are "high end and high performance" but in reality if you want to get the best out of your computer you cant. If you wanna be able to do more you have to use windows, which im not good at using. I really am loosing faith in apple.
Great displays for Mac Pro 8 core (2010)
