In Search of the Best Hackintosh Graphics Card

[kamaji san]

and the winner is....

 

[tetak]

link your video card, product to buy

GALAXY gtx 470 sc

 

[jpa]

link your video card, product to buy

GALAXY gtx 470 sc

What this version exactly?

ref...

thanks

 

[sfroom]

It seems like it's basically a competition between the last gen nVidia cards (GTX 260, 275, 285) vs. the ATI Radeon 5800 series (5850 and 5870). I got a 5870, so I expect I'll get respectable performance, but it seems that the GTX 2xx series are better bang for the buck, since they can be found online (mostly used) very cheaply!

Perhaps some real world performance numbers from either of these series would be helpful if anyone can provide them.

I like that this thread is taking off!

 

[cfb44]

novabench.tiff

 

[rushko]

I've just plugged in Leadtek GTX460 768MB, here's the result, CPU oc'ed @3.8GHz:

 

[pixu]

q9550 + gtx260.

After two gtx460's decided to try gtx470. Funny thing, 3 months ago I got 200 euros for a used gtx460. Last one went for 120 eur. One should never spend more than a hundred on a card, the prices drop very quickly above that. On the other hand, I think the street price of q9550 has been around 200 eur for the last 2 years.

 

[the_gael]

here's the score from my machine.
Using Chameleon Graphics enabler for HD5770

 

[Duncan1dah0]

Nova Bench Score: 946

2011-02-01 22:30:07 -0500
Mac OS X 10.6.6
Intel Core i5 @ 2800 MHz
Graphics Card: GeForce 9800 GT

8192 MB System RAM (Score: 158)
- RAM Speed: 4448 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 363)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 111406240
- Integer Operations/Second: 237582368
- MD5 Hashes Calculated/Second: 869236

Graphics Tests (Score: 405)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 781

Hardware Tests (Score: 20)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 83 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 166 MB/s

 

[zugok]

Perhaps some real world performance numbers from either of these series would be helpful if anyone can provide them.
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Wish granted...

We really do need so sort of actual Application test, the benchmarking tool seems somewhat abstract.

In the past Cinebench was fairly popular:
http://www.maxon.net/downloads/cinebench/cinebench-115.html

For OpenGL 3d responsiveness, maybe using the Modo demo plus a test scene will help?
A 30 day demo can be found here:
http://www.luxology.com/trymodo/

Benchmark intructions and test scene can be found here:
http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=44302


Here is my hack system. EVGA 8800 GTS 512mb.




I also tested the XFX Radeon 5770, 5850 and 5870, but only for 3d application performance (Maya, Modo, etc..) and I found the Radeon cards performed at about 1/3-1/2 the speed of the Nividia 8800gts.

3D application performance in OSX has always been slower than in Win, plus has seemed to be more dependent upon overall system performance than in Windows. In my many years of experience in OSX , the Radeon cards has always been much slower than Nvidia in 3d Application performance.

My advice has been and will always be, don't buy ATI cards for productivity, they are really only good for gaming. Same is usually true in Windows, you get what you pay for.

Now I have a Radeon 5850 to dump on Craigslist, lesson re-learned!