Anyone using Sapphire HD 7950 in a MacPro?

[Erik Lindahl]

Seems to work fine for me. Want me to test something specific?

MacPro 2008, 8×2.8 GHz, 16 GB RAM, external ATTO-SAS RAID, Kona 3.

[Greg Jones]

I just installed the Nvidia GTX680 for Mac in my MacPro and it screams. I don’t do much editing in Final Cut Pro X, but I did do some test editing in it and it seemed to work smoothly. In Premiere Pro the GTX680 is truly amazing.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc
https://www.d7-inc.com

[Erik Lindahl]

True that! According to some a test made by barefeats however the Radeon 7950 is the FCPX king.

https://www.barefeats.com/gpu7950c.html

[Martin Phillips]

Thanks for the replies, guys, yes – I have just been looking at the GTX680 and it looks pretty good. Just wonder whether it’s worth the extra £150 or so ….. Also wonder whether to hang on for a few months to see if anything else suddenly appears?

Martin Phillips Freelance Cameraman / Producer / Editor
Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK. http://www.videodvdmaker.co.uk

[Erik Lindahl]

GPU-wise there isn’t that much more right now.

– nVidia GTX680 is top of the line excluding Titan
– Radeon 7950 isn’t top of the line but “high end” and I’d be surpriced to see a 7970 coming any time soon

AMD doesn’t have any new GPU’s coming for some time, nVidia is however rumored to release a 700-series soonish, possible summer release. If that means an OSX-card will come one can never know and these cards won’t be a major break-through.

760Ti ≈ current 680 where the 770 will be a slightly faster card.
780 will be a lower-cost Titan it seems, beating the current 680 by some margin and having more VRAM.

Nothing really huge from what I understand however.

A 780 in tandem with a SandyBridge-E MacPro, that would perhaps be quite “earth moving” but that’s a few months away and we still don’t have a clue what Apple’s plan for the MacPro is.

[Marty Melville]

Hey Erik

Did you have any install probs or was it just drop it in and off you go. I have heard that they will pull a lot of power, will the PS unit cope with that on a 3.1?

Thanks

Marty