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Good news everyone, today Nvidia announced the Quadro K5000 for Mac which means that OS X just got some official high-end Kepler support, as the Quadro K500 appears to be based on the GK104 GPU. This should be great news for the entire Hackintosh community, as we should now be seeing some new Nvidia drivers that ought to give us better Kepler GPU support.The high-end GeForce 680, 670 and 660 Ti cards work already, but we'd expect the Quadro K5000 drivers to add better support for these cards, as they're all based on the same GK104 GPU. Historically, Nvidia has released separate drivers through its site for the Quadro series, which can also be used for the high end GeForce cards. However there are no Mountain Lion graphics drivers available as of this posting, only the native ones in OS X.
The Quadro K5000 for Mac differs in many ways to the consumer desktop cards, as for one it has 4GB of GDDR5 memory. It also has shunned the HDMI port and sports a pair of DisplayPort connectors, as well as two dual-link DVI ports. The board power is a mere 122W suggesting that Nvidia has lowered the GPU clock speed a fair bit compared to the consumer graphics card models. The Quadro K5000 sports 1536 CUDA cores/shaders, the same amount as the GTX 680, but the latter has a power rating of 195W.
The Quadro K5000 for Mac will be available at a yet unannounced date later this year with PNY being Nvidia's select partner in the US and Europe, with ELSA and in Japan and Leadtek for the APAC region. For those interested in purchasing a Quadro K5000, you'd better have some deep pockets, as the card is priced at a whopping $2,249.
Source: Nvidia
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