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Article: New Nvidia drivers fix glitchy Fermi cards in Mountain Lion
This is also easily verified by having activity monitor's CPU load read out on while running Cinebench GPU benchmark. It will max out 1 CPU core at 100%. So the faster the CPU, the better the score.
If Cinebench doesn't directly support the GPU you are using it uses the CPU to render the images instead of the GPU.
This has been proven by using a low end and high end unsupported NVIDIA card and getting basically the same frame rates with either card. Or take an unsupported card and over clock the CPU and see the frame rates jump over the standard card. Then do the same thing on a supported card and basically no change in frame rates.
This is also easily verified by having activity monitor's CPU load read out on while running Cinebench GPU benchmark. It will max out 1 CPU core at 100%. So the faster the CPU, the better the score.