EVGA GTX285 & Mac Pro

It's a good news that EVGA bring one of their top graphic card to Apple user.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/1664..._gtx_285_graphics_to_mac_pro.html?tk=rss_news

I thought that the same card for PC would be compatible with the MacPro mobo.
So that EVGA will only to have to develop a driver so that it will works with OS X. right?

 

"Evga Gtx 285 & Mbp"

Lol

Anyway its cool that this is coming to the Mac Pro, Hopefully this reflects what apple might put in the imac next mabe a 280m or somthing.

 

Nope. The EVGA card will have different firmware - as do all other 'for Mac' video cards, while still being able to work in Boot Camp (probably, and that's if you don't mind the relatively incompatible EFI-BIOS emulation of a Boot Camp environment of course). I'm sure some enterprising guy will develop a flash hack, but it's not guaranteed.

It's pretty shocking to see a card from actually this year come out for Macs. I do hope it's a trend - it's kind of depressing to buy a new Crap Pro and find it comes with a card I abandoned upwards of a year ago.

My guess though with the GTX285 is that ATI still has the upper hand in writing higher-performing OS X drivers than NVidia and that there will not be gigantic differences with the 4870 in 'Mac Mode' - so it's probably more for people who've blown all their money on a Pro and can't afford a separate - and more stable - gaming PC.

 

Hey, I'm still on the 9400M, so I don't want to hear it.

 

Just to let you know, and as other users have pointed out, the title says "m bp".

 

I have asked Chaz to changed the thread title. It should be changed soon.

hey Vogelbung, thanks for ur posts. I learn more about graphic card.

 

As may have been made clear, this is desktop talk

Not in the UK Apple Store yet. Hmmm. Wonder how long I'll have to wait...