Review: NVIDIA GTX 285 on an 8-core Mac Pro (Arstechnica.com)

[winterspan]

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/07/review-nvidia-gtx-285-on-the-mac.ars

Looks pretty good. It definitely beats the 4870 in windows gaming, but CoreImage-based and other pro apps on OSX can favor the 4870 because of Nvidia's crappy drivers. Based on prior performance, it seems like Nvidia really hobbles the OpenGL performance of their non-Quadro cards, but this may not be the case on OSX. (I'm a traditionally windows guys).

Overall, we need a far more comprehensive test with a multitude of real-world video/graphics/3D/media/etc applications to really know. Most importantly, because of the huge variance in performance, if you are looking at these cards with a certain application or applications in mind, I'd definitely wait for a review of said application to find out which card will be best.

 

[netkas]

they tested glview with default settings, thats pretty stupid.

 

[ventro]

It appears there are some SERIOUS problems in the way OSX interacts with this card. Hope EVGA/Apple get their **** together and put out an update.

 

[seisend]

It appears there are some SERIOUS problems in the way OSX interacts with this card. Hope EVGA/Apple get their **** together and put out an update.

There was an update last week by EVGA/nvidia which should make the card 20% faster in OSX.

 

[Pressure]

There was a update last week by EVGA/nvidia which should make the card 20% faster in OSX.

They already used the new driver.

All tests in this review are done with the newer driver.

 

[seisend]

They already used the new driver.

true ! my fault, I'm sorry. Hope EVGA can fix it so soon as possible.

 

[elvisizer]

the reviewer wasn't aware of the CUDA demo trick for keeping the card in 3d mode.