
FYI, it took 81 seconds to render FCPX's Rain effect and 110 seconds to render Photoshop's Tilt/Shift Filter.ģ. It was so slow, it would have made the graphs 'ugly' to read. I excluded it from the FCPX and Photoshop graphs. I included the legacy GeForce GT 120 in some of the graphs. But it was a strong second in two and 'sort of' tied for second in TF2.Ģ. The Radeon HD 7950 was beat by the 2012 iMac's GeForce GTX 680MX in all three Game tests.

#Radeon hd 7900 for mac pro pro#
The NVIDIA GPUs are strongest in CUDA accelerated apps like Premiere Pro - though there are exceptions as you notice the Radeon HD 5870 outperforming all GPUs including the 7950. It shines in Pro apps that use OpenCL for GPU accelerated effects. The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition is fastest in three out of four Pro App tests featured on this page. (LONGEST bar means FASTEST in KSamples/sec.)ġ. We render the Medium benchmark Sala scene and record the average thousands of samples per second. (SHORTEST bar means FASTEST time in seconds.) Photoshop CS6 - Using a 6000x4500 pixel image, we render a 15 degree Tilt Shift (500 pixel blur). Premiere Pro CS6 - We render the Fast Color Correction o n all 8 clips of our 30 second 1920x1080 HD test video. (LONGEST bar indicates FASTEST in frames per second.)įinal Cut Pro X - We render the Rain video effect on all 8 clips of our 30 second 1920x1080 HD test video. Settings are 2560x1440 Fullscreen, vSync OFF, Best Settings, Anti Aliasing 8X. Team Fortress 2 (Steam) - We playback one minute of mayhem. (LONGEST bar indicates FASTEST in frames per second.) Settings are 2560x1440 Fullscreen, vSync OFF, Best Quality, Anti Aliasing enabled. (LONGEST bar indicates FASTEST in frames per second.)ĭiablo III - "Evil is in its prime." Our lonely traveler is on the path to adventure stopping occasionally to kill a few zombies. Settings are 2560x1440 Fullscreen, Ultra and Extreme, vSync OFF, no AA. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - A Drone is in the lab gathering resources and mutating into Zerg structures. The GeForce GTX 680MX is the only exception - embedded in the 'Late 2012' (27") iMac 3.4GHz Core i7. Radeon 4870 = AMD Radeon HD 4870 GPU (512 VRAM)Īll Mac Pro GPUs above were in a in a 'Mid 2010' Mac Pro 3.33GHz Hex-Core. Quadro 4000 = NVIDIA Quadro 4000 GPU (2G VRAM) GTX 285 = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 GPU (1G VRAM) GTX 680MX = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX GPU (2G VRAM) Radeon 5770 = AMD Radeon HD 5770 GPU (1G VRAM)

Radeon 5870 = AMD Radeon HD 5870 GPU (1G VRAM) Radeon 7950 = Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950 GPU (3G VRAM) We've also added two more legacy Mac Pro GPUs: the GeForce GT 120 and Radeon HD 4870. We have more test results for new "blessed" GPU for the Mac Pro running OS X: the Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition.

Posted Friday, March 22nd, 2013 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist
