I have a mid 2012 Mac Pro with an ATI Radeon HD5870 graphics card. Is my card compatible with Maverick? I am confused about the open CL and open GL as well. Help ! thanks so much tricia

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I have a mid 2012 Mac Pro with an ATI Radeon HD5870 graphics card. Is my card compatible with Maverick? I am confused about the open CL and open GL as well. Help ! thanks so much tricia

HI All, I have a mid 2012 Mac Pro with an ATI Radeon HD5870 graphics card. Is my card compatible with Maverick? I am confused about the open CL and open GL as well. Help ! thanks so much tricia

Mac Pro (Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Mar 7, 2014 6:37 PM

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Melophage

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Mar 7, 2014 9:25 PM in response to Tricia211

Tricia,

if your ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card is supported in Mountain Lion, then it will be supported in Mavericks.

OpenCL allows GPUs to be used for non-graphics tasks, while OpenGL is an API for vector graphics.

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Mar 7, 2014 9:59 PM in response to Melophage

Thanks so much !

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