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User profile for user: Randall Lloyd
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I need to switch from ATI to NVIDIA. What are my options?

I have a 2.93 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xenon Mac Pro with the ATI Radeon HD 4870.

It supports double wide PCI Express with 16 lanes


I run two Apple cinema HD displays... an aluminum 30" (DVI) and an older acrylic 27" (DVI through mini adapter)


The 3D production software I need to use for work only works on an NVIDIA card.


What is the best NVIDIA card that will run in my machine?

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 2.93 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xenon Mac

Posted on Mar 11, 2013 1:39 PM

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User profile for user: The hatter
The hatter
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Mar 11, 2013 3:29 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

At $800 and comparing it to GTX 570 and above for CUDA like this.... it is old and too bad the Q5000 isn't yet available but there are Mac versions.


http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-k5000-mac.html


http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/07/nvidia-quadro-k5000-for-mac-hands-on/


There are benchmarks on MacRumors (and I thought Barefeats pitted GTX 680 and Quadro )

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I need to switch from ATI to NVIDIA. What are my options?

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