Most NVidia cards now work on the mac

[Matt Walsh]

Brilliant, many thanks for your thorough and concise answers.

Best,

M.

[Evans Briceño]

Juan, sorry for this question, but right now, having options available like the FSP Group Booster X5 450W to supply more power if this is really need it, and plenty of choises like 570/580-3gb/590/680-4gb wich card (if the money is no an issue) do you choose? for a 3,1 mac 2008. 16gb ram, SAS RAID, Davinci 9.3 in OSX 1.8.3 . I also have the 120gt and the Q4000. I want to go up in matter of playback in davinci when add some more nodes. My regular footage is Prores4444 hd and 2K.

I’m looking for the best choice, a wise investment. Or maybe you say: Evans.. wait a few months and try….I don’t know.

I saw a benchmark that shows that 580 beats the 680 in playback…so what to do??

best regards and thx in advance for your help

Evans Briceño
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[Juan Salvo]

The 570 works well in within MacPro’s power envelope. The biggest issue with MacPro 3,1 is the MacPro itself. The 4,1 and 5,1 perform significantly better. So in terms of performance that’s probably your biggest handicap.

The 680&580 are about equal in resolve performance. Very, very close. The Titan will be faster but also costs more. And doesn’t work on the macs as of now.

590 is outside of the power capabilities of the MacPro, not worth the risk,.. 690 is less power consuming but, like I said, your biggest issue is your CPU. Any of those cards will bottleneck on your MacPro.

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[Evans Briceño]

ok let’s say I will update to 5,1 if apple never put in the market a new mac pro.. maybe in a few months second hand or from apple itself.

this been said… having a 5,1 wich card should I pick? you didn’t mentioned the external Booster X5 450W for cards like 590. had you ever try it? or is a waist of time?

so what card?

thx for the quick r..

Evans Briceño
BLUE films
Caracas, Venezuela.
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virtualevans@gmail.com / contacto@virtualevans.com / http://www.virtualevans.com

[Juan Salvo]

Well you kind of know what the performance is for the cards.

570
580/680
690

So just pick the one you can afford.

Additional power is a big help. I’d go with a 690 over a 590.

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[Evans Briceño]

So if I buy a PC 690 card the deal is done in 1.8.3 ? (if power issues has been resolved) Do I need something else to make it work in the mac? booting issues I heard are done having a second mac card like 120gt is that correct?
or I’m loss?

Evans Briceño
BLUE films
Caracas, Venezuela.
VZLA. +584166352066 / +582122838114 / USA +1-718-673-3326
virtualevans@gmail.com / contacto@virtualevans.com / http://www.virtualevans.com

[Evans Briceño]

Sorry Juan. can you share the right 690 card from ebay or amazon that I have to buy ? I don’t want to make a mistake…

Evans Briceño
BLUE films
Caracas, Venezuela.
VZLA. +584166352066 / +582122838114 / USA +1-718-673-3326
virtualevans@gmail.com / contacto@virtualevans.com / http://www.virtualevans.com

[Gary Williams]

Below is the current set up that I have now. My question is without buying a new computer at this time is there a better graphics card setup I can use for the current version of Davinci Resolve. I plan on getting a new mac next year, and would like to know if using a GTX 570 card by itself in place of the 5770 is the best set up for now or should I use the 5770 in slot one for the GUI and the 570 in slot 2 for GPU. Thanks in advance for your advice.

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 20 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.15f3
Serial Number (system): 4074209W08S
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001D4F4518D0ATI

Size: 20 GB
Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
Speed: 667 MHz

Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 5770
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x68b8
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-C0160C-155
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.436Intel ESB2 AHCI:

Vendor: Intel
Product: ESB2 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported

WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0:

Capacity: 2 TB (2,000,398,934,016 bytes)
Model: WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0
Revision: 05.01D05
Serial Number: WD-WMAY00649633
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Medium Type: Rotational
Bay Name: Bay 1
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable: Yes
BSD Name: disk0s1
BackUpDrive:
Capacity: 2 TB (2,000,054,960,128 bytes)
Available: 872.34 GB (872,339,156,992 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /

[Juan Salvo]

Use the 570 by itself. Your problem is you have an old macpro. Meaning that your MacPro is your bottleneck.

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[Gary Williams]

Thanks Juan
I have one more question?
I was told the 5770 would not work in my Mac 2 1 and It works fine.
Do you know if the GTX 570 2.5 will work in the Mac 2 1 or will it only
work in 3 1 or higher. Thanks