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Let's see if the drivers and features make them worth the cost over the cheaper Radeon options.
Pny nvidia quadro 4000 review for mac#
So I guess it's all not all roses for Mac users, but it's still encouraging given that the card can be bought from Amazon for far below the $1200 suggested retail price:īut, as I said in my review of the Quadro FX 4800, the hardware is only half the picture with these cards. That said, the Mac version is not exactly what you'd get in the BIOS PC version it has only two display outputs, where the PC version has three. Mac users have grown accustomed to paying way too much for the same hardware, and NVIDIA did well by keeping the price down. The price is by far the best "feature" of this card-at $1200 MSRP, it doesn't cost more than the PC version. I would never recommend these cards for mission-critical professional applications, but I thought that including the results would be interesting. To make things a little more interesting for the review, I've also used a generic PC BIOS Radeon 5570 to see if it's even feasible to use these cards now that Apple seems to be throwing drivers into future OS X version to support these cards. Lion also shed some light on the future of this and other 3D cards on the Mac. Fortunately, the beta releases of OS X 10.7 (Lion) includes OpenCL drivers, so I included scores those scores here. I wanted to wait for OpenCL drivers for OS X 10.6 and the Quadro 4000, but after a few months with those still not arriving, I moved on to do the review. This review is a little late coming since the card has been out for a few months. For shorter periods of intensive GPU usage, a gaming card can be fine. This heat also makes for a potential liability, shortening the life of your Mac Pro while adding a lot to your monthly electric bill. With two GTX 580s running something like Octane Render over a weekend, the heat would be incredible. While you can get a lot of card for less money in a gaming card like a GTX 4xx or 5xx, such cards aren't practical for extended periods of use. Potential users of this card are content creators, and the Quadro's features (not to mention the price) are better oriented towards this latter class of user. This new card marks NVIDIA's departure from gaming cards for desktop Macs, and, considering that only someone with a twisted sense of humor would buy a Mac Pro for gaming, I think this was a wise choice. But that said, this is no perfect score either. Well, I'm pleased to say that the folks at NVIDIA aren't crazy. So when NVIDIA felt confident enough in their new Quadro 4000 Mac Edition to give me a card for review, I know that they'd either fixed it or gone insane. It seemed that NVIDIA was just phoning it in and praying that CUDA's entrenchment in professional non-linear video editing, known to be heavily Mac-based, would be enough to sell these to Mac users. As a 3D professional, I've known NVIDIA's drivers to be their weakest point and have lost track of how many times I've recommended Radeon cards over NVIDIA for Maya and Mudbox (I frequently get asked to recommend video cards). After a pretty harsh review of the Quadro FX 4800, I was really hoping not to have to slam another potentially great card hamstrung by bad drivers.
Everyone knows the old Einstein quote about the definition of insanity-it's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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