Thanks for posting your results. Can you tell the speed difference with any programs? Games like Halo maybe?
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Thanks for posting your results. Can you tell the speed difference with any programs? Games like Halo maybe?
Don't get confused too much about what system profiler "calls" a card. It's just a read out from the ROM beeing flashed to it. You can use a text editor and write to this portion of the ROM whatever you like as long as it has the correct string length. It will be shown in system profiler.
By the way: Here is a 7800GTX 512Mb clocked 580/865 running in my Quad:
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Yeah I know that can be done I just find it odd that a retail card thats called X1900GT would have a ROM calling it X1900XT... (speaking of changing Names in ROM I had a look at the X800XT ROM for my FireGL X3 since once flashed its called a X800XT and I wanted to change that to FireGL X3 but I could not see any thing in the rom that looked like a name if that makes sense do you know where i have to look in the rom for it?) also the 7800GTX you have there what ROM did you use? and do you have any anomalies with it I read up that flashed 7800GTXs have issues
Didn't know there has been a retail x1900GT for Mac. I was thinking the only x1900 would have been the XT, so every x1900 had to be flashed with this card's ROM.
But you are right. Looks like it's not that easy for ATI cards. For NV ROMs it's as easy as searching for ASCI [name of card] in the ROM and replace it, keeping an eye on the string lenght and adding blanks if necessary. But i just tried the x800 ROM and wasn't able to find anything too. So this seems to be working different.
For the GTX: I was using a ROM i got from Strangedog’s Dave Pirinelli (Rubytuesday as far as i remember). But i think it was originally made by Arti. It's based on the GT's ROM, not the one of the Quadro, even with the card's appearance beeing more like a Quadro. With my card i didn't have any problems. But i flashed a few others after that. And some of them i had to clock down a little, as they artefacted in Mac even with their native PC clocks. But imho it's the best choice for PCIe G5s. In particular i think it runs a lot cooler than the ATIs do.
Would you be able to pull this rom file off of your 7800GTX? I've looked around quite a bit and can't seem to locate a download. I have a flashed version and I'm getting a bit over 17,000 score and that 19,468 is quite desirable
Finally, the elusive GeForce 3.
I recently acquired two of these cards, thanks to some sleuthing by @LightBulbFun . He agreed to relay one to me since the seller wouldn't ship to the US. The other turned up a week later in the US.
I tried mine in Tiger on a Cube, and @LightBulb fine tried the other in Tiger in an MDD. Both returned the same 1331 benchmark. I haven't tested the second yet(it arrived today) but he did find it benching slightly lower in Leopard.
I recently acquired two of these cards, thanks to some sleuthing by @LightBulbFun . He agreed to relay one to me since the seller wouldn't ship to the US. The other turned up a week later in the US.
I tried mine in Tiger on a Cube, and @LightBulb fine tried the other in Tiger in an MDD. Both returned the same 1331 benchmark. I haven't tested the second yet(it arrived today) but he did find it benching slightly lower in Leopard.
Benchmarked my new cube card, a flashed ATI Radon 7000. It doesn't seem to finish the test all the way, but the score I got for it going all the way to 165888 triangles before killing itself is 194.
incase anyone was wondering what the GeForce Go 7300 in an AppleTV Bench marks (it gets 6308) Just got Leopard running on my AppleTV heh. (10.6.8 snow leopard is possible but it has a few issues and runs a lot slower then Leopard does I also got tiger on here before as well as Debian Jessie) I love how the GPU in the first gen AppleTV is several times faster then the GPU in the Mac mini of the Time (GMA950)...
Just got Leopard running on my AppleTV heh. (10.6.8 snow leopard is possible but it has a few issues and runs a lot slower then Leopard does I also got tiger on here before as well as Debian Jessie) I love how the GPU in the first gen AppleTV is several times faster then the GPU in the Mac mini of the Time (GMA950)...
Just curious, how did you get Leopard on your Apple TV? I've looked into it before, but all of the guides that I've found are really out of date with dead links. I'd like to pick up a First Gen Apple TV some day and try Leopard on it.incase anyone was wondering what the GeForce Go 7300 in an AppleTV Bench marks (it gets 6308)
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not going to get into detail right now but the basics of it is Take HDD out of AppleTV install leopard on it update it to 10.5.8 then replace the Stock kernel with a "legacy" kernel (one to run on older CPUs) and install a kext called dsmos.kext (depending on the kernel you use) sadly the main 10.5.8 legacy kernel all the links for that are dead but I actually found my kernel in an old torrent for a slimmed down Leopard image for an AppleTV took all night to download that with only 1 seeder (i only really wanted it for the kernel as i was making my own mostly stock install) and you also have to delete AppleHDA.kext (sound kext) as it panics the system i have made a .zip containing most of the files but i cant upload it here... its 2.5MB in size but mac rumors says its too big...
A few years back I was able to break 20,000 on OpenMark with a dual 1.8 G5 and a flashed ATI FireGL X3 256MB, overclocked to I *think* 170% (screenshots are here somewhere...). Running it too long at that speed though would cause a crash, I mostly did it for the bragging rights haha. It was a very nice card, only thing holding the computer back was a lack of software support and lack of multithreading.
well this is interesting. I was playing with my AppleTV today and I remembered that there was a nvidia "Web driver" for 10.5.7/10.5.8 Leopard and i decided to download it and look into it see what drivers it contained (its officially only for the GTX 285) and I discovered it contained all the Nvidia Drivers for leopard (even PPC ones) and I compared the versions to stock 10.5.8 Drivers and i found that the Stock leo one was 1.48 and these Web drivers where 1.49 so I modified the package to ignore the machine check (Normally it checks if its running on the right Mac Pro) and installed it to my only Leopard nvidia machine (my AppleTV ) and Discovered 2 things. first OpenMark was reporting OpenGL 2.0 over the 1.5 with the stock drivers and then i ran the bench mark and got a nice speed boost. sadly I dont own any PowerPC nvidia macs to test this some more. so ill attach the Driver here for others to test out and report there findings...
https://mega.nz/#!QA5V3YxT!N9nJCFBqIGFkWKyrqlXzs8quJm9ob70c_DertGvlYPE
) and Discovered 2 things. first OpenMark was reporting OpenGL 2.0 over the 1.5 with the stock drivers and then i ran the bench mark and got a nice speed boost. sadly I dont own any PowerPC nvidia macs to test this some more. so ill attach the Driver here for others to test out and report there findings... https://mega.nz/#!QA5V3YxT!N9nJCFBqIGFkWKyrqlXzs8quJm9ob70c_DertGvlYPE
I highly doubt it you can try but I doubt it will work... (for one the installer checks if the OS is bellow 10.5.7 and iv not disabled that check, only the Machine check)
time to add one more card to the ever growing list of cards (I really think this post should be made a sticky as it contains a lot of useful info any mods listening? ) anyway for today I figured out how to Flash a PNY Geforce 6200 special thing about this one is its a PCI Card not AGP and being a 6200 it supports Full Core image (unlike the FX5200) enabling full core image on a Blue and white G3, Yikes G4 or a Xserve G5. I had to modify the normal XFX WANG 6200 ROM but only slightly to get it to work. it was quite awesome seeing the Screen come to life with the card installed in my BW G3 and to see the translucent menu bar in leo do note the card requires a G4 CPU or higher as the Kexts use some G4 instructions and crash on a G3
) anyway for today I figured out how to Flash a PNY Geforce 6200 special thing about this one is its a PCI Card not AGP and being a 6200 it supports Full Core image (unlike the FX5200) enabling full core image on a Blue and white G3, Yikes G4 or a Xserve G5. I had to modify the normal XFX WANG 6200 ROM but only slightly to get it to work. it was quite awesome seeing the Screen come to life with the card installed in my BW G3 and to see the translucent menu bar in leo do note the card requires a G4 CPU or higher as the Kexts use some G4 instructions and crash on a G3
Here's a result (11290) that doesn't really fit anywhere on the list... yet. Not sure what the situation is here. The card itself is a FireGL X3 with 256MB of VRAM. I believe it has been flashed to appear to the Mac as an X800 Pro (see attachment). Note that this is running on a G4DA (4X AGP with pins 3 and 11 taped) if it matters.
OpenMark reports this as a Radeon X800 Pro. The score is 11290. I'd add to the wiki but I'm not quite sure how to categorize this one.
(Edit to add: Now I'm getting 15501 again, which matches a test earlier on the X800.)
OpenMark reports this as a Radeon X800 Pro. The score is 11290. I'd add to the wiki but I'm not quite sure how to categorize this one.
(Edit to add: Now I'm getting 15501 again, which matches a test earlier on the X800.)
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I decided to check out how my PowerBook G4 17" with the Geforce 4 MX Go 440 scores. Scores roughly like a Radeon 9200 so I'm happy about that I suppose..
On Leopard:
On Tiger:
Same score as you can see. Might try the PC Radeon 9700 on my Sawtooth later
On Leopard:
On Tiger:
Same score as you can see. Might try the PC Radeon 9700 on my Sawtooth later
while talking about this GPU The Radeon Mobility 9200 in another thread I noticed no one had actually benchmarked one here with OpenMark so I decided to do so
it looks like the Mobility Radeon 9600 and Radeon X600 XT Have been done at some point by someone just not removed from the "needs benchmarking" list
But I also noticed no ones done the original Radeon (Aka Radeon 7200) yet
today i tried with GT 130 on my Imac9,1 first FullBenchmark with GioFX OpenMark /which i often use, but never fully benchmarked.
and was astonished how the ratings were different
on OSX 10.6.3 (higher value)=
and on OSX 10.9.1 (very lower value)
same graphics card, but such big difference.
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i have the same with 256MB only, quite a bit too loud for the Quad /(for me).
Am hoping for a Quadro FX4500, should be nice upgrade!
and was astonished how the ratings were different
on OSX 10.6.3 (higher value)=
and on OSX 10.9.1 (very lower value)
same graphics card, but such big difference.
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i have the same with 256MB only, quite a bit too loud for the Quad /(for me).
Am hoping for a Quadro FX4500, should be nice upgrade!
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