New NVIDIA Graphics Drivers for 10.7.3 Lion Released

[MacTechReviews]

Sorry

 

[tamorgen]

Man, stay away! My Cinebench score was 46 in 10.7.2. I upgraded to 10.7.3,and it went down to 35.67. This set my score down to 24.06, and now the CPU score is down to 2.05 as well!!!

 

[maximusprimus]

Supported products:

GeForce 200 series:
GTX 285 for MAC

GeForce 100 series:
GT 120

GeForce 8 series:
8800 GT

Quadro series:
4000 for Mac

Quadro FX series:
FX 5600, FX 4800 for MAC

Does this mean none of the other cards will benefit from this?

 

[Mbar97]

Does this mean none of the other cards will benefit from this?

Yeah, I'm wondering this as well. Would it be beneficial to update the drivers on my GTS 250 1GB?

 

[tonymacx86]

The drivers are meant for the Quadro 4000 for Mac product, and all of the official Mac supported discreet cards. That is why the list is so limited. However, the drivers will work for all supported cards (see CustoMac Buying Guide) like the ones included with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3.

Most likely these drivers will end up in 10.7.4, but 5xx support oob is a nice addition. For me, on my GTS 450, testing before and after, I had no change in performance benchmarks.

Keep the test results coming- I'm curious to see if anyone gets any performance increases or decreases vs. the default 10.7.3 drivers.

 

[maximusprimus]

With my GTX 460 1GB: (MSI Cyclone)

Before: 29.46 fps

After: 29.00 fps.

 

[orches]

Confirmed working Asus en 8400GS Silent 512 dual screens for the first time for me with Lion!

 

[echrei]

This update says it’s version 270.00.00f01.
Mac OS 10.7.3 contains version 270.05.20f02.

Why would they use a lower version number?

 

[slv335i]

This is great news. Have a GTX 580 that I was going to sell but now I'll keep it for my next build. Want to hear more feed back of this working on the Gtx 580 with no problems.

 

[jetimus]

Thank you for posting this info.
My EVGA GTX 590 is finally displaying at 1920 x 1080 after installing these drivers.
I had tried everything before this with no luck whatsoever.
Thanks again.