at least its price point isn't quite as bad as say a (retail) radeon 9800 xt, which where i live costs more than a 6600 from Apple! Apple only offers the GeForce 6600 256 MB, which is at best a very small upgrade for people stuck with the 6600 LE 128 MB, but generally more of an acceptable method to attach more than 2 displays in a PCIe mac. i guess one could explain this with 'though luck, agp is dead'. my buddy's radeon 9800 pro recently died, and the only possible upgrades are either radeon 9800xt or x800xt, both at outrageous pricepoints. I sympathize, also with what you wrote in the other thread.

Ģ006.08.08 Changed title and added some news in this post. Note: I asked this question in the 'Mac Pro next Tuesday?' thread, but thought it might be better to create a separate thread. not including the professional Quadro FX 4500 card. (*) let's say for games with bang/buck in mind, so e.g. Ok, it probably would have to be based on an existing model so that an existing (and hopefully unified) driver will work on the Mac OS X side. Even more so if I could pop in almost any video card I like. That would open the world of windows games, which I'd appreciate. So if the 'Mac Pro' machines will kick ass enough, I'd be quite ready to sell my quad G5 and buy a 'Mac Pro' (possibly even non-quad-core). And there is no high-end nor PCIe card available from ATI whatsoever.

Will they be able to run in both PPC and Intel PCIe Macs? (Say if an Intel Mac could use any 'normal' PC video card, I imagine it will not run in a PPC Mac - with the exception of certain 'hybrid' cards like a Radeon 9600 XT model for example).īackground info: I'm running a quad G5 and think it's kinda sad that the GeForce 7800 GT is the best (*) officially available model (and only as CTO option to boot).Īpart from any ethical issues one might have, flashed GeForce 7800 GTX cards are nice, but difficult to obtain outside the US.

Will 'Mac Pro' video cards still need a Mac specific ROM? (The endian problem is gone with the Intel Macs, but are there other differences?).

I guess anyone knows about the current state of video card availability/pricing for the Mac platform, so let's skip that part and think about the future: I was wondering if anyone has thoughts about video card compatibility in the Power Mac successor ('Mac Pro').

Mac pro video card compatibility