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I think the graphics performance difference between OS X and Windows may have something to do with the competitiveness among GPU companies. It's in their best interest to optimize the hell out of their Windows drivers, as there is a large market of gamers who want faster, faster, faster. How much of that effort actually ends up in their OS X drivers, I don't know. On Windows, I'm pretty sure they have special optimizations, or "shortcuts", that are triggered when the system detects a specific game is running, to make it perform better and faster. On the OS X side, I'm not so sure they have anything similar.enethunter said:Right now my hack has a 4870 in it, but i've noticed that OS X is slower than windows for games. This is to the best of my knowledge a limitation of apple's open GL implementation, but i'd just like to know what card i'd have to be running to be able to bridge the gap and get decent performance at either very good or ultra specs for blizzard games.
Anyhow, as far as I'm aware, the currently best-performing and OS X-compatible GPU is the GeForce 580. You can head over to one of the "Unigine Heaven" benchmark threads and see for yourself. Personally, I would wait until GTX 680 support arrives (or Radeon 7xxx, for that matter), if I were to build a brand new system. I don't know how long that's gonna take, though.