#Gtx 980 Mac OS X#

Gtx 980 Mac OS X

Newest CUDA and WEB driver required. Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 or newer. Compatible to the Mac Pro 4,1 - 5,1 (2009-2012). NVidia GTX 980 with 4GB RAM (EVGA ACX cooler).

( LONGER graph bar means FASTEST in Frames per Second.)Using the HIGH preset at 2560x1440, we ran the built-in benchmark. Settings were 2560x1440, Fullscreen, 4X AA, Anisotropic 8X, Vsync Disabled, Shader Detail Very High, Effect Detail and Model/Texture Detail both High, Multicore Rendering Enabled. Below are four OpenGL tests to ponder.GTX 980 = modified NVDIA GeForce GTX 980 GPU (4GB, 1215MHz)R9 290X = modified AMD Radeon R9 290X GPU (4GB, 1000MHz)GTX 780 = modified NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 GPU (3GB, 900MHz)GTX 680 = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU Mac Edition (2GB, 1058MHz)HD 7970 = modified AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU (3GB, 925MHz)HD 7950 = AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU Mac Edition (3GB, 800MHz)GTX 570 = modified NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 GPU (2.5GB, 1464MHz)HD 5870 = AMD Radeon HD 5870 GPU Mac Edition (1GB, 850MHz)HD 4870 = AMD Radeon HD 4870 GPU Mac Edition (512MB, 750MHz)The 'test mule' was a 'Mid 2010' Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Xeon Tower running OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite.We use the console command 'timedemo' to playback a short game session. We are excited about the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 because it requires less power than the other top GPU options yet promises equal or better performance. Navigate to HKEYCURRENTUSERSoftwareSolidWorksSOLIDWORKS.Many of you have decided to stick with your Mac Pro tower and are 'hungry' for ways to 'pump it up.' One of our favorite upgrades is a faster GPU.

Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that's why FurMark is also a perfect stability and stress test tool for the graphics card. ( LONGER graph bar means FASTEST in Frames per Second.)This is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. Detail Level was set to High. ( LONGER graph bar means FASTEST in Frames per Second.)Using the built-in benchmark, we checked all the boxes on the startup dialog but V-Sync and FXAA. )We ran at 2560x1440, Vsync Disabled, Highest Quality with Anti-Aliasing Disabled.

It is certainly faster than the 'blessed' Mac Editions of the GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7950.Just as important is power draw. ( LONGER graph bar means FASTEST in Frames per Second.)The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980was fast but not the fastest in all tests. The off-screen test runs at 1920x1080. We used the 'T-Rex chasing the Motocross rider' test. ( LONGER graph bar means FASTEST in Frames per Second.)This is a cross-platform graphics benchmark. We used Extreme preset: 1600x900 windowed resolution with 8x Anti-aliasing, Ultra Quality for Shaders and Textures, and with Occlusion, Refraction, and Volumetric Shadows enabled.

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