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Posted September 28, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites. Posted September 29, Up me. Posted September 30, Me too Anyone know about this driver Thanks again. Posted March 7, The driver is right here on the forum, just look in this section. That's not a true test, unless that completely breaks the playability of the game. Looks like the mini displayports work after all. We plan to test the Radeon HD as soon as we get one. Ours is back ordered but we're trying to get a loaner sooner. For many users it's a good choice. I'm thinking about getting that one.

I rarely play on my Mac Pro.

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I'm going to wait until the 27" ACD get released. Still undecided if I'm going Dell or Apple for the display and I would like to know too if it can run two 27". Not going to get both at the same time but in the future I want to replace my two Samsung 24" with two 27". There is little reason to upgrade a Mac Pro from a to a They perform the same as each other and the main reason anyone would want to upgrade is for DX11 which the HD has but of course on a Mac Direct X 11 doesn't even come in to play for obvious reasons. You are probably thinking why does this older card match and sometimes beat the newer one?

The is the new generations mid-range and thus it is designed to get the previous mid-range buyers to upgrade not to get the previous high-end buyers to upgrade like yourself instead they want you to get the HD or HD but Apple only sells the HD for you high-end folks :.

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Cool, thanks for chart Vice! I never really got into the whole GPU thing and mostly rely on advice of others when it comes to this.

A friend claimed to no end that the would "beat my any day". Turns out it's actually slightly better at the moment. Considering I don't run Windows 7 native DirectX11 definitely isn't of much interest to me. Just a small off-topic question: Do you have any idea how the inch iMac's performs compared to the or , is it a lot worse?

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Looking at how thin the iMac is it can't be that good right? I have no facts to back that statement up it's just something Apple tends to do quite often. It is considered a low-end to just touching mid-range card. The is squarely mid-range and the HD is a high-end card. The Mac Pro is a scam. It's a powerful computer with pretty nice build quality, granted, but they charge way, way too much for it.

When I was looking for a powerhouse that complemented my laptop, the 27" iMac made way more sense. Sure, it's not as powerful, but it was very competitively priced unlike the Mac Pro. It became one after the Quad-Core inch iMac was released. When it comes to graphics the iMacs still stuck beyond no believe though.

I have no idea how you're supposed to get any serious performance out of an under clocked low-end GPU in combination with a high-res inch screen. The GPU has traditionally always been the soft spot of the iMac and the thing that starts showing its age first, with no real way of upgrading it.

It's also shocking to see how fast the iMacs loose their value these days compared to the Mac Pro. They've definitely done this to the late , early and mid versions. Right now it's just enough for gaming and more than enough for graphics work.

With recommended detail levels in Portal, I get about FPS at x, and World of Warcraft runs like butter at x with most everything turned way up and some AA to boot then again, WoW isn't exactly graphics intensive and should really run better than it does; the Windows version performs much better. I think you are right, though.

I'm sure they have to underclock the a slight bit. Otherwise, it would probably fry a hole in the back of this aluminum enclosure. It already gets pretty hot when playing games and the iMac has as few fans as possible as it uses more passive heat dissipation. GPUs always tend to show their age quickly, especially if you demand the best out of them.

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Even some of the top-of-the-line GPUs can't handle the best graphics on the market right now. It's been a rub for PC gaming for a while. It is just a matter of time before someone downloads the firmware off the card and provides a way for someone to get a generic card and write the firmware to it for half the price. This is one thing I hate about Apple, such a closed set of hardware they support Why can't we just buy any darn GPU we want without some custom apple firmware on it and just use it in the PCI Express slot that is supose to be universal to start with :rolleyes: and let the third parties write their darn drivers for it so you don't have to get the drivers from Apple all the time.

Its probably not so much a matter of them lying as them not testing the card in the models. That happens with lots of companies, not just Apple. And THAT would probably be why they don't list them as being compatible with the models. Apple isn't likely to certify the card as being compatible if a major function like that doesn't work.

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Vendors choose not to do it because the cost of catering to such a small market isn't worth the expense and trouble. Why can't we just buy any darn GPU we want without some custom apple firmware on it and just use it in the PCI Express slot that is supose to be universal to start with. How many companies ship their graphics cards with firmware that supports EFI?

That is why Macs require different firmware on the cards. It has usually been possible to get the firmware from the Mac version and flash it to the PC version to get it to work, so I don't doubt that the technique still works. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment.

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