In Search of the Best Hackintosh Graphics Card

[LinusMinus]

Here's mine......

Just can't figure out a score of 16 in the hardware test with a write speed of 153 MB/s

Definitely time for a new graphic card!!! I just got the justification

 

[Stones]

Using a XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 XXX Edition:

NovaBench Score: 1939
2011-01-26 17:10:04 +0200
Mac OS X 10.6.5
Intel Core i7 @ 2810 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

8192 MB System RAM (Score: 155)
- RAM Speed: 3907 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 518)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 200004736
- Integer Operations/Second: 431492032
- MD5 Hashes Calculated/Second: 777322

Graphics Tests (Score: 1225)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 2154

Hardware Tests (Score: 41)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 931 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 61 MB/s

Btw, NovaBench appears to only use a single core of the i7. CPU usage was low throughout the test.

Jonathan

 

[Scwhaa]

Btw, NovaBench appears to only use a single core of the i7. CPU usage was low throughout the test.

Yeah I noticed that & infact its one thread not even a whole core, and I think the 'hardware' score is based more on HD size than speed, also the graphics score varies from <900 to >1000 on the 5850. But the bench only takes 30 seconds to run so quick easy and free at least.

 

[Paul]

Dell Studio XPS 9100.

 

[Gen3Chip]

graphicsenabler=y

I was going into this thinking that I was going to want to upgrade the old GTX 260 for a 5850 or 5870 but since everything posted by the 5800 series so far is only 200 or so points above I thinking I'm sticking with the one that brung me especially since it's been SUPER stable without any issues.

Here's my scores...

 

[seamus22015]

May I ask why some of you guys who have an i7 CPU using the GA-X58A-UD3R are using the MacPro 3,1 profile? Wouldn't there the 5,1 profile be more accurate? Is there a performance increase somehow?

I'm seeing dismal scores on NovaBench using my GTS 450 1GB card. Everything else looks good. Could me using the 5,1 profile be the reason?

 

[rushko]

graphicsenabler=y

I was going into this thinking that I was going to want to upgrade the old GTX 260 for a 5850 or 5870 but since everything posted by the 5800 series so far is only 200 or so points above I thinking I'm sticking with the one that brung me especially since it's been SUPER stable without any issues.

Here's my scores...

I vote for GTX260 as best graphics card for hackintosh. I'll try to find me one, they go for 90 euros in my country, used ones.

 

[Mystroe]

Graphics = 97

DSDT install with MultiBeast, default graphics setting

 

[aonanodad]

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4550

GraphicsEnabler=yes, ATIRadeonX2000.kext v 1.6.26, ATI4500Controller.kext, ATIFramebuffer.kext, ATISupport.kext all v 1.6.25, Multibeast 3.1.0, DSDT.aml from database for Gigabyte P55M-UD2

 

[bpear96]

I am building a hackintosh soon. heres what im thinking for my build viewtopic.php?f=22&t=11861

but im not quite sure on what graphics card i should get want one thats cheap $100 - 150 but good and i dont mine buying used.im thinking the radeon hd 5770 because i heard the gtx 460 has problems. can somebody else recommend me a card