The Quadro FX 4800 ultra-high-end solution is now available for the Mac Pro, giving architects, digital artists, medical scientists, and other professionals the right set of tools to deliver results that push the realms of visualization. With Boot Camp, users can experience the full features and accelerated performance of native Quadro 3D graphics when running professional Windows applications. Designed, tested, and built by NVIDIA for the Mac Pro, Quadro FX 4800 gives professionals the visual supercomputing power that they deserve from their desktops.
Share this story. For anyone who does 3D graphics, the high-end NVIDIA Quadro cards are the shiniest of red bicycles. At the top-end, they’ve got more memory than most gaming cards, but they've got a price to match their premium features. At $1799 retail, the Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition is over $1300 more than the 1GB Geforce GTX 285 and is the only Quadro option available to Mac users. Considering the lack of reviews by 3D professionals who know how to test the card, that’s an expensive leap of faith that a potential customer would have to make. As someone who bought a Quadro FX 5600 for one of my older Mac Pros and Maya, that leap turned out to be quite. So we thought we’d take another look at the faster Quadro FX 4800 to see if much has changed.
One thing has changed since then: NVIDIA has taken over official support of the Quadro cards and the drivers. Previously, the Quadro was supported by Apple, and while it was obvious NVIDIA had a hand in driver development, it was anyone’s guess as to who was responsible for the lackluster speed.
Nvidia Quadro 4800 Review
Since the Quadro cards are all about drivers, giving NVIDIA some time to get the Quadro up to speed on the Linux and Windows sides seemed only fair. I want to thank the people at NVIDIA for sending me the card, but also for their patience; we pushed this review back a few months since it was clear that OS X 10.6’s arrival would have dated the review immediately. Then we had to wait some more because OS X 10.6.0 had OpenGL problems with Maya and the Radeon 4870’s OpenCL was half-broken. We couldn’t have benchmarked the card properly until those were fixed with 10.6.2. So here we are.
Test hardware. NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition.
CUDA Cores: 192. Memory Size Total: 1.5GB. Memory Interface: 384-bit. Memory Bandwidth: 76.8GB/sec Test System.
Dual quad Nehalem Mac Pro 2.66 GHz. 24GB RAM. Dual 1920x1200 screens. OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD startup disk Test software. OS X 10.6.2 and latest built-in Quadro FX 4800 driver.
Boot Camp 3 drivers with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit. NVIDIA Quadro driver 1.9.1 64-bit All tests were performed running the 64-bit OS X kernel and drivers, except for CUDA tests, since CUDA is currently 32-bit only. How the Quadro compares to a gaming card For those new to the benefits offered by a Quadro card, there are a number of things that differ from the Geforce 200 series part that the Quadro is based on.
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