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New NVidia FX 5600 Graphics Card
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Anyone know / have a clue when this might be available on the Mac Pro?
I want to put together a $15K machine, but am disappointed with the selection of
graphics cards that the Mac offers.
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I sure hope you mean The FX 5600 Quadro.
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Originally Posted by hjones 
Anyone know / have a clue when this might be available on the Mac Pro?
I want to put together a $15K machine, but am disappointed with the selection of
graphics cards that the Mac offers.
You'll have probably have it as an option with Leopard. Part of taking advantage of the new architecture is supporting OpenGL 2.x.
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When did we find out that Leopard is supporting OpenGL 2.x?
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Originally Posted by brokenjago
When did we find out that Leopard is supporting OpenGL 2.x?
Leopard Technology Series for Developers
OpenGL Improvements
OpenGL is the industry-standard API for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D applications. Mac OS X has supported OpenGL from the outset and in Leopard it supports the latest OpenGL 2.1 specification which adds pixel buffer objects, color managed texture images in the sRGB color space, and improvements in the shader programming API.
Leopard also provides a dramatic increase in OpenGL performance by offloading CPU-based processing onto another thread which can then run on a separate CPU core feeding the GPU. This can increase, or in some cases, approach double the performance of OpenGL-based applications.
Or in Leopards case dramatically increase your UI rendering. I don't know what the effect of having a 1.5GB frame buffer is going to do but I'll be greener than a toad with envy with anyone who has the ducats to put a Quadro 5600 in a Mac Pro 8-core running Leopard.
When you combine Leopards improved support for thread dependency and core affinity (prioritization) with a the new improved GPU rendering of UI you're going to see some cool stuff that doesn't bog your system down like it would in Tiger.
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I don't know what the effect of having a 1.5GB frame buffer is going to do
It'll take 1.5GB away from your "standard" memory, as the 64bit stuff in Leopord is not much better than the 64-bit support for the G5.
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64 Bit is going to be extended through to Cocoa and Carbon, as well as most of the frameworks.
How is that not much better?
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Originally Posted by dimmer
It'll take 1.5GB away from your "standard" memory, as the 64bit stuff in Leopord is not much better than the 64-bit support for the G5.
No I meant I do know know what the "performance" effect of a 1.5GB frame buffer will do. It'll be interesting to know if there is a point of dimishing returns.
64-bit in Leopard is far superior to Tiger but the current Intel 64-bit chips are no more 64-bit than PPC G5
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