What's a good step-up from an Nvidia Geforce GTX-650 ?

[steveharman]

Hi,

I've been very happy with my Nvidia GeForce GTX-650 on the past few builds I've upgraded through.

But as I'm doing more & more work in Sketch, throwing around large (2D) vector graphics I'm wondering if there's a more powerful GPU option that might make screen refresh / redrawing a little snappier ? I don't do any video work.

I'd be looking at affordable pre-owned devices from a couple of years ago maybe, to keep the cost down. Nothing fancy to run a crypto-mining operation!

Any alternative would need a minimum of 2 x DVI outputs as the GTX-650 has and should be as "natively supported as possible", ideally running without any hacks out-of-the-box just like the 650. Ideally not too long either as it would need to live inside a Silverstone Mini ITX case (https://www.scan.co.uk/products/silverstone-sugo-sst-sg13b-black-mini-itx-dtx-case)

All suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve

 

[vulgo]

RX 560? You might need an additional DVI adapter.

 

[steveharman]

Thanks, I hadn't considered that one. Although I'd rather avoid injections and config.plist edits if I can find a more natively supported card.

The GTX-650 has spoiled me with never having to worry about any config tweaks, even moving up the macOS versions over time.

Steev

 

[vulgo]

Thanks, I hadn't considered that one. Although I'd rather avoid injections and config.plist edits if I can find a more natively supported card.

The GTX-650 has spoiled me with never having to worry about any config tweaks, even moving up the macOS versions over time.

Steev

Way 'Number 2' in that thread is using only Lilu + WhateverGreen kexts. Clover's RadeonDeinit setting is not necessary when CSM enabled in motherboard firmware settings.

Staying with Kepler, the GTX 760/770 should have similar support to a 650... Maxwell and later NVIDIA cards (also GTX 780) would require the web drivers.