NVIDIA brings Fermi to Mac Pro through Quadro 4000

[Gary Taylor]

Hi Peter,

How about a GTX285 for GUI and 4000 for rendering? Would this work with the power requirements and would it have any advantages over the 120, 4000 config?

Thanks in advance!

Gary

[Uli Plank]

I don’t think so, and you’ll draw a lot of power and generate unnecessary heat.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Peter Chamberlain]

Hi, the 4000 uses one power slot and the 285 needs two so these two cards wont play together in the MacPro. If you have a 285 and a GT120, that’s a great combo, we have a number of machines using this mix in the field and reports are positive. A GT120 and 4800 are the cards available today and this is also good, the GT120 and a 4000 is fine when the 4000 for Mac is available.
Peter

[John Sellars]

So would one be able to use this card DP to HDMI into reference monitor with 10 bit path (that DVI does not support)? If so, this sounds like it be faster, bypassing the Decklink HDMI out.