I'm still using the card as is with my 980 working fine as is and getting same performance as any other machine with w7000 but I need a D300 bios to get that apple logo back. it is amazing how close these card are in spec's the Bios would need slight modification before installing it on this...
Hey So I bought a AMD FirePro W7000 and Currently have it running in my Mac Pro 2009 4.1 along side my EVGA GTX 980 SC so my Mac Pro is boubling as a workstation and Gaming desktop.
The W7000 is great for the OpenCL stuff like FCPX but it would be nice to have the Apple Logo back at boot up and...
So I got the W7000 in the mail and its second hand for €200 and it didn't come with any cables so back to ebay and waiting for the proper cables including a actual Display port to HDMI cable X(.
I have have the w7000 running kinda with mishmash of molex and SATA power cables that I have lying...
it was just showing how the 980 runs on the two OS's and I'm fully aware how bad OSX is at gaming reason why i don't use OSX for that but we will see how this w7000 goes.
yea just trying to get my hands on one is the issue right now the shop that was keeping it for me sold it so now I'm looking else where and that €375 looks to be the best deal I can find.
I will be aiming to buy one next week to test out and make a few videos on so i will keep use posted. also...
the main attraction to the AMD Firepro w7000 is the "VCE" which is a multistream hardware H.264 HD encoder. for video editing it should be amazing and consumer cards don't have that sort of hardware on board. it may even make my GTX 980 redundant in Adobe Pr as well unsure of that though...
Hey I'm using a Mac Pro 4.1 Spec's are pretty good but I am also looking for a proper work station card. So I use Adobe Premier Pro for the Main Video editing but I sometimes jump to FCPX for quickey animations and edits. Adobe Pr renders 4K Great on my EVGA GTX 980 SC with the CUDA support but...
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