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Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - Harbourmaster - 01-08-2008
Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro!
http://www.apple.com/macpro/technology/graphics.html
Feast your eyes.
All-new high-performance graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA make Mac Pro graphics technology even more cutting edge. The standard graphics card — an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory, PCI Express 2.0, and two dual-link DVI ports — provides great performance for typical creative applications. And you get dual 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display support out of the box.
For motion graphics, 3D modeling, rendering, or animation, you’ll need the greater graphics horsepower offered by the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and latest-generation NVIDIA GPU technology.
The optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics card is the ultimate workstation-class graphics card available, with a massive 1.5GB of GDDR3 memory and a 3D stereo port for stereo-in-a-window applications.
All of these cards feature the latest-generation unified shader model support. Compared to dedicated pixel and vertex shaders, shaders are no longer special-purpose and can now be utilized based on the needs of the graphics application.
PCI Express 2.0.
It’s the latest interface technology available for connecting high-performance graphics cards, and it’s new to the Mac Pro. A 16-lane dedicated graphics slot now features PCI Express 2.0 with up to twice the transfer rate of PCI Express.
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - M A V I C - 01-08-2008
Hopefully this means Apple will also quit putting non-Pro video cards in the MacBook Pro.
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - kj4btkljv - 01-08-2008
Insane!
Although it would be very cool to do a video wall application.
8 30" Cinema Displays = $14,400, and a MUCH bigger desk! Maybe you could just mount them on the wall, and have enough room on the table for keyboard, mousing, and paperwork.
Jeff
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - cbelt3 - 01-08-2008
kj, you're thinking so 2 dimensionally. Put em in a geodesic hemisphere around you so you can lay on your back with your bluetooth wiimote controller and gaze at the hyperdimensional wonderfulness that is your work environment.
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - illustratton - 01-08-2008
I guess Al Gore will have one soon (think of the POWER he will consume).
;-)
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - MacArtist - 01-08-2008
This is dreaming...
But it sure would be nice to be able to buy a newer video card for a 1st gen Mac Pro without costing $400 or more.
I see Apple is using PCIe 2.0; this should be backwards compatible with the 1st gen Mac Pro.
If ATI or nVidia would price their cards more in line with PC cards; Mac users would buy. I don't buy the excuse that it costs them more. Write a driver. Or just flash the damn cards like people on eBay are doing (except I haven't seen many for the Mac Pro).
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - cbelt3 - 01-08-2008
costs 'em more because so few people buy the Mac cards. Short runs of PCB's are much more costly than long runs. Simple supply/demand curve. Sorry.
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - C(-)ris - 01-08-2008
[quote MacArtist]
If ATI or nVidia would price their cards more in line with PC cards; Mac users would buy. I don't buy the excuse that it costs them more. Write a driver. Or just flash the damn cards like people on eBay are doing (except I haven't seen many for the Mac Pro).
It isn't the extra manufacturing cost that adds to the price. It is the cost of writing the driver and the card firmware. Do you think drivers just fall from the sky and magically work? Where do you think people get the firmware for the flashed card? Hint: It doesn't fall from the sky either.
The manufacturer has to pay to write both the Mac driver and the Mac firmware for a card to be able to work. The only reason there are flashed cards on ebay is because someone stole the firmware from an authentic mac edition and loaded it on a non Mac card. Did you really think those people selling flashed cards wrote the firmware themselves in 20 minutes?
It all boils down to this: Mac is 3% market share, which means no economy of scale for mass producing cards. Add to the fact that people like to steal the firmware and flash cards and sell them for half price, and it is no wonder nobody likes making graphics cards for the Mac. The few that do, charge a lot, because they have to to recoup costs.
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - Jimmypoo - 01-08-2008
If I can't run them 16 wide by 9 high, what's the point.
Re: Now you can run up to EIGHT 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays at the same time with just one Mac Pro! - papercup - 01-08-2008
You really need the ability to run NINE.
