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MacPro, Octane and GTX460
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:55 pm
by ChicagoArch
I've seen a decent amount of posts regarding what graphics card to purchase/use on a MacPro using Bootcamp. It seems that the GTX460 has been recommended as a good card. Two questions regarding this:
1) Performance-wise (not considering cost) is the GTX460 recommended over the Quadro 4000?
2) Since the GTX460 is not a mac card, would this require flashing the card?
Appreciate the help!
Re: MacPro, Octane and GTX460
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 2:52 pm
by t_3
the gtx 460 has nearly 50% more shader cores (336 vs. 256), nearly 50% higher cpu clock (~700 vs. 475 mhz), a higher vram clock (1800 vs. 1400 mhz) and the same vram interface (256 bits) - so i assume the 460 is giving substantial better performance in octane.
as i'm no mac user, i just can't tell, if it is possible to flash a 460 for use in a mac...
Re: MacPro, Octane and GTX460
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:43 pm
by pixelrush
Don't forget only 224 of those cores are active for Octane.
Re: MacPro, Octane and GTX460
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:31 pm
by Maryus3D
Here you'll find more info about non apple labeled cars on a mac pro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYa39Y5nR6A
This guy run octane on 2x GTX 580 under OSX using Lion and ATY-injector kext from netkas.
Re: MacPro, Octane and GTX460
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:08 pm
by t_3
pixelrush wrote:Don't forget only 224 of those cores are active for Octane.
why? just curious to know as windows user
