Mac Pro 2010 with ATI Radeon 5870 and Nvidia Quadro 4000

[Bill Carnicelli]

Did you install the latest CUDA driver?

[Chris Borjis]

[Kelly Chen] “Should I change the Quadro into slot 1? Would this effect other programs like DaVinci Resolve?”

that would enable it to work with premiere, but then DaVinci won’t use it
for acceleration.

annoying yes, but the way it is unfortunately.

[Kelly Chen]

Currently running OSX 10.8 and Cuda driver version is 4.2.10 there is a new update 5.0.17 but it wont install. Trying to figure the problem.

[Kelly Chen]

Bill,

You were right! New quadro drivers installed finally. Took 4 attempts. Now I can select mercury engine settings. Not sure Chris if I have to change over slots since I can select it, so win for Davinci and Premiere.

[Bernhard G.]

Hello,

recently in a magazine I read CS5.5 had been tested on a so-called ‘Nvidia Maximus’ system,
which is a Windows PC with a Quadro2000 + Tesla C2075.

Would be interesting to know if this means we could simply add CUDA-boards as we like,
and the more CUDA boards the better the Mercury performance will be (like in Resolve)?

Or is ‘Maximus’ a method making two specific boards appear as one CUDA-unit,
so no additional performance for us here on OSX?

Best regards,
Bernhard

[Vince Gaffney]

Kelly – are you still using the splitter for powering the cards? I just received tohe quadro 4000 and have the ati 5870 in a mid 2010 pro as well. any problems? thanks

[Kelly Chen]

Hi Vince,

Not a single problem. Runs like a charm. 24-7.

Kelly

[Vince Gaffney]

thanks – great news.

[Dustin Ward]

How did you get the ATI Radeon 5870 to work with the Quadro 4000 in your Mac Pro 2010? Thanks

[Kelly Chen]

Hi Dustin,

Arty Black helped me with this one. He recommended to get a Y 6 pin splitter cable, like this one:
https://www.amazon.com/CB-6M-68F2-6-pin-PCI–Dual-Cable/dp/B005GWFZ8Y/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1314982428&sr=8-10

Works like a charm.

Kelly