In Search of the Best Hackintosh Graphics Card

[thejoebot23]

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?

Yes try a different smbios.


One thing that these benches arent telling you is that gddr3 is slower then gddr5. If you are using mercury engine in adobe or anything like that your getting bottlenecked.


"To give you an example of the performance difference between DDR3 and DDR5 memory, we ran some tests using a GT240 video card with 1 gig of DDR5 memory and a GT240 video card with 1 gig of DDR3. The video card with the DDR5 memory gave us around a 45% speed increase over a GT240 with DDR3 memory"

source
http://www.studio1productions.com/Artic ... ereCS5.htm

However im paying for the value of gddr5 of gts 450 in freezes . Been doing a lot of research and I am going to sell the gts 450 and pop in the gt

 

[morganb]

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?

Yes try a different smbios.


One thing that these benches arent telling you is that gddr3 is slower then gddr5. If you are using mercury engine in adobe or anything like that your getting bottlenecked.



OK, so in light of this, is there any smbios which is 'better' than the others for gfx acceleration? Is there an article that compares 3,1 to 4,1 to 5,1?

Thanks
"To give you an example of the performance difference between DDR3 and DDR5 memory, we ran some tests using a GT240 video card with 1 gig of DDR5 memory and a GT240 video card with 1 gig of DDR3. The video card with the DDR5 memory gave us around a 45% speed increase over a GT240 with DDR3 memory"

source
http://www.studio1productions.com/Artic ... ereCS5.htm

However im paying for the value of gddr5 of gts 450 in freezes . Been doing a lot of research and I am going to sell the gts 450 and pop in the gt

 

[tetak]

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

 

[sfroom]

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

Did you have the opportunity for testing outside of synthetic benchmarks? Game framerates, for example?

I plan on doing my own comparison as soon as I get my hackpro up and running.

 

[morganb]

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

YIKES how did you get those RAM transfer speeds?

weird coz my ram transfer benchmark is 150 (less than yours) yet my measured speed is 6379MBs (more than yours).

I dont get it, off topic though I guess.

 

[jpa]

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

what version card is??

link card...

cinebech points?

 

[tetak]

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

Did you have the opportunity for testing outside of synthetic benchmarks? Game framerates, for example?

I plan on doing my own comparison as soon as I get my hackpro up and running.

No I don't play games on comp (360 and ps3)

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

YIKES how did you get those RAM transfer speeds?

weird coz my ram transfer benchmark is 150 (less than yours) yet my measured speed is 6379MBs (more than yours).

I dont get it, off topic though I guess.

bandwidht or clock or something ;-)

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

what version card is??

link card...

cinebech points?

don't know what U asking - " what version card is??......link card... "

cinebench 33.25 FPS , windows 7 85 fps

 

[notshy]

Here's my results as:

Note my processor is at 3.8Ghz not 1.6
MacPro 3,1
Gigabyte Batmobile 5770 / Kabyl Boot r700 (ATI Experimental) / GraphicsEnabler=Yes

Mac OS X 10.6.6
Intel Core i7 @ 3800 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5770

6144 MB System RAM (Score: 145)
- RAM Speed: 5299 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 688)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 267122736
- Integer Operations/Second: 558467712
- MD5 Hashes Calculated/Second: 1050242

Graphics Tests (Score: 639)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 1186

Hardware Tests (Score: 51)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 931 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 93 MB/s

 

[RevisionZero]

Here is my result for a 450 GTS



Edit: Oops had the wrong link =O

 

[jpa]

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

Did you have the opportunity for testing outside of synthetic benchmarks? Game framerates, for example?

I plan on doing my own comparison as soon as I get my hackpro up and running.

No I don't play games on comp (360 and ps3)

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

YIKES how did you get those RAM transfer speeds?

weird coz my ram transfer benchmark is 150 (less than yours) yet my measured speed is 6379MBs (more than yours).

I dont get it, off topic though I guess.

bandwidht or clock or something ;-)

Diference 3.1 and 4.1

what version card is??

link card...

cinebech points?

don't know what U asking - " what version card is??......link card... "

cinebench 33.25 FPS , windows 7 85 fps

link your video card, product to buy