[rob_ART]

I ran both Pro Apps and 3D Games on the Quadro FX 4800. Here's a Memorial Day Weekend peek for those not slaving over a hot barbeque:
http://barefeats.com/nehal10.html

It's impressive but I predict, at a fraction of the cost, you hard core gamers will opt for the Radeon HD 4870 or soon-to-be-released GeForce GTX 285.

[The Liberator]

Hmmm, I expected the FX4800 to be faster on the imaging.

Liberator.

[Sneaky Snake]

Apple doesn't make any mention of this card in the store when looking at the Mac Pro which is kinda strange. You'd think that they would really be trying to push the pro graphics and the Mac Pro

[Tesseract]

Sneaky Snake, on May 27th 2009, 09:35 AM, said:

Apple doesn't make any mention of this card in the store when looking at the Mac Pro which is kinda strange. You'd think that they would really be trying to push the pro graphics and the Mac Pro

This is the kind of thing where if you need it, you probably know.

[Greg Gant]

rob_ART, on May 23rd 2009, 06:16 AM, said:

It's impressive but I predict, at a fraction of the cost, you hard core gamers will opt for the Radeon HD 4870 or soon-to-be-released GeForce GTX 285.

If anyone buys this card with the intent of gaming, that's deserving of a kick to the groin. I'm waiting for Motion 4 to see if I want to upgrade beyond my 8800 GT.

I just got a 30 inch display, and I went to test games and realized I have a whole five games installed, World of Goo, Halo, The Sims 2 and Wingnuts 2 on my Mac Pro, and I don't have a bootable copy of bootcamp.

[devSin]

But do they have the "workstation" drivers (has the Quadro ever been worthwhile in Mac OS X)? If the card works in Windows and you have imaging software there, it would probably destroy the Mac OS X non-gaming numbers.

I thought the only reason to pay for these parts was because the drivers are heavily optimized for the pro applications, but I don't believe this has ever been the case on Macs (they have the same crappy nv drivers as everything else; the results would seem to suggest this)?

[bobbob]

devSin, on June 2nd 2009, 01:30 AM, said:

I thought the only reason to pay for these parts was because the drivers are heavily optimized for the pro applications

Apple certainly make most of the Mac apps involved, so I don't see why you'd think otherwise. The general suckiness and lax schedule is just because they don't care unless it hurts sales. Even then, they don't care enough about Motion to run regression tests and stop a release that makes it half as fast.