NVidia GeForce GTX 285 Sluggish Performance

[Peter Rudolfi]

RE: the ATI Radeon HD series video card for running FCPX and Motion 5, I have a friend who uses the Radeon 4850 and finds it problem free as compared with the notoriously choppy nVidia GeForce GTX285 video card that Don 7 I suffered with. Given that Don’s thread was posted nearly two years ago here is a link comparing the latest ATI Radeon 5770 with its even newer 5870 which using almost every metric is 50% faster:

https://www.hwcompare.com/982/radeon-hd-5770-vs-radeon-hd-5870/

[Chad Smith]

That is odd you don’t see the CUDA in sys prefs. perhaps your machine does not have the driver installed? That could def impact your performance. I had to boot into my 10.6.8 system last night and I saw the CUDA in my sys prefs so I know that it should be there on your machine. A quick google got me this link.
https://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html
Perhaps check to see what is the latest version that runs on 10.6.8.

As far as ATI cards there are a few choices out there that can be found on Ebay etc that have more ram and are faster than some of the Mac native cards.

[Peter Rudolfi]

Thanks for following up. Two things.

Don Smith in his 3-15-12 post at 7:18:31 am states that his new ATI Radeon 5770 video card only worked after removing his CUDA preference from his mac. YOu are advising me to install a CUDA Driver for my MAc. Not making sense.

Regarding the best ATI Radeon card that works on OS10.6.4 and above including Mavericks 10.1 check out this comparison between the 5770 & the 5870:

https://www.hwcompare.com/982/radeon-hd-5770-vs-radeon-hd-5870/

[Peter Rudolfi]

One more thing on this topic. It appears that the latest CUDA Drivers are only designed to work on Nvidia products for the Mac and with an OS of 10.7 or later. That leaves me out on two counts. I run 10.6.8 and more importantly I’m about to trade up to one of the ATI Radeon video cards so probably wonte benefit from CUDA at all.