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The FirePro line is the most expensive of the graphics cards. Compare the actual specs to desktop cards like the Radeon R9 series (which top out at $500 or $60
by patrickg_zill 13y ago
The FirePro line is the most expensive of the graphics cards. Compare the actual specs to desktop cards like the Radeon R9 series (which top out at $500 or $600 each retail) and you will see that it is far more likely that Apple is taking those chips and using them.
- astrodust 13y agoThe benchmarks for these are tricky. "Pro" cards have more floating point "double" performance, but most games only use the less accurate but faster "single" mode.
- hobbe80 13y agoIf you buy this to play games (or rather - if game performance is where your computer needs max out), you're probably a person with enough money to not sweat a $10k computer purchase more than I mull over a fancy meal with the missus. Now, if you're a 3D artist (maybe game designer?) this looks really nice (caveat: not a 3D artist). So, designing fancy games - Mac Pro. Playing said fancy games - anything from iPhone to home-built gaming rig will be more worth it.
- astrodust 13y agoWhile this system has a lot of GPU under the hood, many 3D applications aren't properly leveraging OpenCL or are using CUDA (Nvidia). I'm hoping that this pushes more towards OpenCL because of how much capability is there. Some rendering engines for popular apps like Maya support CUDA exclusively which is trouble. Still, nobody is building render farms out of Mac Pros. Right now this is geared towards video editors and audio engineers where more GPU translates directly into faster rendering and where you can never have enough 4K screens.