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#Best video card for mac pro early 2009 drivers
#Best video card for mac pro early 2009 update

#Best video card for mac pro early 2009 drivers

GTX 570 (or one from the 500 series) may be the best choice because the drivers are more mature than the 600 series (This may no longer be an issue with the drivers released several days ago, the verdict is not quite in), and the 580 and 480 models (+ others?) require an external power supply.(This overrides the current Mac Dirvers and seems to increase performance but may cause a monitor sleep issue)

#Best video card for mac pro early 2009 update

The GTX 5xx and 6xx cards work great on 10.8.2, and NVidia just released another driver update for 10.8.2.

IMHO as of, it seems the nVidia GTX 570 is THE best option for our Mac Pro Machines especially for things like video editing (Thanks for the recommendation).

What I have learned in a nut shell (A lot of this is repetitive of the info found in the FAQ link provided above, and simplified a little, let me know if I got anything wrong): No, I didn't know Lion began support of NVidia PC cards, but I do now 🙂 Thanks for the heads up. I spent about 10 hours yesterday and the day before reading through them.

(I know these are crazy expensive, but I would like to know if they work)Īgain, great links, lots of good info, thanks. I see ATI has some nice cars out now like the Fire Pro Series:ĭo these work with our Mac Pro's? I can't find platform compatibility specs. I researched it a little and looked at what Mac Pro's currently come with (The ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB, available seperately here:ġ. I'm looking to spend between $300 and $1000, but cheaper is better. I would like to know what is the best video card I can currently get that can handle these three things and give me a decent boost in performance. I do a little video edititng (FCP, AE, Premiere, Motion, etc), dabble in 3d (Blender), and game a little. An ATI Radeon HD 4870 with 512mb VRam, and an NVidia GeForce GT 120 with 512mb VRam, neither of which produce very impressive numbers in Cinebench. I currently have two cards in there and I want to update one of them. I'm looking to upgrade my video card in my early 2009 Mac Pro.