Missing High End Graphics in Mac Pro
The new mac pro has upped the ram and cpu specs quite a bit, but it seems apple dumped one of the most important features for people who will be buying these machines. Video editors, visual artists in general, scientific research, and anything else that doesnt require graphic cards geared toward general use.
The Quattro or maybe a firepro/firegl. When you look at the benchmarks of a quattro compared to a general purpose GPU in rendering times for visual editing its huge. Anyone have any clues on why apple would get rid of an important option for a workstation geared for media editing.
Can you buy a Quattro and pop it in? Would it work or have they dumped it, seems like a stupid move on apples part.
The Quattro or maybe a firepro/firegl. When you look at the benchmarks of a quattro compared to a general purpose GPU in rendering times for visual editing its huge. Anyone have any clues on why apple would get rid of an important option for a workstation geared for media editing.
Can you buy a Quattro and pop it in? Would it work or have they dumped it, seems like a stupid move on apples part.
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The new mac pro has upped the ram and cpu specs quite a bit, but it seems apple dumped one of the most important features for people who will be buying these machines. Video editors, visual artists in general, scientific research, and anything else that doesnt require graphic cards geared toward general use.
The Quattro or maybe a firepro/firegl. When you look at the benchmarks of a quattro compared to a general purpose GPU in rendering times for visual editing its huge. Anyone have any clues on why apple would get rid of an important option for a workstation geared for media editing.
Can you buy a Quattro and pop it in? Would it work or have they dumped it, seems like a stupid move on apples part.
Most likely lack of DisplayPort. The one ATI card they offer contains DisplayPort as well as they GT120.
Once the cards become available we'll see higher end options hit.
The new mac pro has upped the ram and cpu specs quite a bit, but it seems apple dumped one of the most important features for people who will be buying these machines. Video editors, visual artists in general, scientific research, and anything else that doesnt require graphic cards geared toward general use.
The Quattro or maybe a firepro/firegl. When you look at the benchmarks of a quattro compared to a general purpose GPU in rendering times for visual editing its huge. Anyone have any clues on why apple would get rid of an important option for a workstation geared for media editing.
Can you buy a Quattro and pop it in? Would it work or have they dumped it, seems like a stupid move on apples part.
It's Quadro, not Quattro, and I doubt Apple was selling enough of them to justify writing and testing a driver for another model.
It's Quadro, not Quattro, and I doubt Apple was selling enough of them to justify writing and testing a driver for another model.
Also, there is a possibility that the people who need those cards are tech savvy enough to source those cards and install them at a much lower price. Apple also doesn't sell pro sound cards as BTO with their machines.