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I'm a little baffled about the Christmas release, busy time of year for me and a little weird for a pro machine
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I'm a little baffled about the Christmas release, busy time of year for me and a little weird for a pro machine
Ohh! Ohh! I want the old standard and not the new one for $500 Alex!
TB is a standard now ????? You mean when you only live in the Apple ecosystem.
When the rest of the industry starts using it I will get excited.
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Enjoy your new machine .
If it meets all your needs , grats !!!!!
Under OSX in the nMP only a single video card is utilized for gaming (as above bench shows); Under bootcamp both D300's are utilized in crossfire and will annihilate any 'notebook' mobile gpu.
Thanks! I don't want to seem ungrateful, you went out of your way by running a benchmark for me, but by not picking the extreme preset, we can't compare apples to apples sorta speak. Scroll down here and you'll see some results from other Mac's on the extreme preset. Thanks again!
http://www.barefeats.com/rmbpc2.html
May I ask for a 3rd run? very kindly of course. Normal Heaven4 in fullscreen, no AA and 1680*1050. I would love to compare with my 5870. Thx in advance.
Why wouldn't you run it the same as he did? Seems a lot easier and you also could compare it to the macs in the link I posted. I get a end result of 15.1 fps on my 5870.
Wow, iMac best's the D300 in Heaven! Thanks for the test!
Wrong.
I'd put money on an Alienware 18 with dual 780m to beat the nMP with D300 crossfire. Yes there are still big nasty notebooks out there with very impressive processing power!!!
We already can see that the iMacs single 780m can take on a single D300.
Thanks for the Test!
That's not surprising since a D300 is the same chip/clocks as a 7970m which is more around 775m level. If you game in windows though the mac pro will own the imac. It's close enough for my needs.
Now if someone could please run this exact test with the D500 i would know what to order. I expect the D500 to be slower at this test, but i wanna be sure.
That's not surprising since a D300 is the same chip/clocks as a 7970m which is more around 775m level. If you game in windows though the mac pro will own the imac. It's close enough for my needs.
Now if someone could please run this exact test with the D500 i would know what to order. I expect the D500 to be slower at this test, but i wanna be sure.
now this is interesting, this slow the D500 is slower then D300. This making D500 in a very strange position.
This was to be expected. Surprised me the difference is so small tbh. You should only buy a a D500 if you're interested in double precision GPU compute.
If you want to play the occasional game after work, you're better off with the D300s. Would be nice if we get a D700 score.
Not sure if D700 will give us another surprise score..
and we will see a lot of people dropping D700 and switch to D300...
I'll concede. I haven't shopped for a notebook in years and didn't realize there are dual 780m notebooks out there. (aside: they ain't pretty)
Running with a W3960, I'm hitting 16133 with Geekbench x64. Not to bad for a 5,1 with a $475 cpu upgrade. Add $300 for a nMP class NGFF SSD and the cMP can hold up very well!
My GTX680 2GB is very slow compared to a GTX680 4GB, it seems.
On the other hand, it's so much faster than the dual D300. Looking forward to D700 numbers, but so far it's quite amusing that a discontinued graphics card beats Apples top-of-the-line and currently non-upgradable cards.
On the other hand, it's so much faster than the dual D300. Looking forward to D700 numbers, but so far it's quite amusing that a discontinued graphics card beats Apples top-of-the-line and currently non-upgradable cards.
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