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Re: Mac version?

Postby Phong » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:23 pm

Amir wrote:
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Amir wrote:
Phong wrote: I've been a Mac fan for over 20 years and even I don't want this. Apple has long given up on the Mac as a gaming machine and so have the card manufacturers.

I have a Mac Pro with dual Firepros but there are no Mac drivers that allow me to use both at once. None.

I mean what.


Man, that's pretty stupid. Gaming aside, wouldn't dual graphics card support be better for professionals using Mac Pros for CAD and the like?

Not necessarily. Dual graphics cards don't mean x2 GPU power. And if we're talking workstations, Macs don't really have a place.


Then what purpose does having dual GPUs in the Mac Pro have?


There are apps that are written specifically to use both. It's just that there are no drivers to make already existing apps use them both at once. Not on Mac OS X anyways.

I can still boot into Windows and use generic AMD Crossfire drivers, and then it's very nice.

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Re: Mac version?

Postby Wude-Tang Clan » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:35 pm

Amir wrote:
Wude-Tang Clan wrote:
Amir wrote:
Phong wrote: I've been a Mac fan for over 20 years and even I don't want this. Apple has long given up on the Mac as a gaming machine and so have the card manufacturers.

I have a Mac Pro with dual Firepros but there are no Mac drivers that allow me to use both at once. None.

I mean what.


Man, that's pretty stupid. Gaming aside, wouldn't dual graphics card support be better for professionals using Mac Pros for CAD and the like?

Not necessarily. Dual graphics cards don't mean x2 GPU power. And if we're talking workstations, Macs don't really have a place.


Then what purpose does having dual GPUs in the Mac Pro have?

Improved GPU power, but it's not double. There are pros to SLI / Crossfire, but there are a lot of cons as well. And not all programs support SLI / Crossfire, and some of the ones that do don't support it well. Having one Titan Black, is preferable to having having two dual GPU's that have equal VRAM.

And you're talking about CAD or Mya / 3DS Max / Autodesk stuff / heavy workload, not gaming, so the discussion shifts from garden variety cards to something like Quadro SLI, which for a Mac Pro is a waste of resources, financially.
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Re: Mac version?

Postby AnimeGamer183 » Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:29 pm

I think a mac version wouldnt be bad. It would have to come later, after the PC and PS4 versions kick some butt in the sales department. I would not expect a mac version to be added to the KS though, or hear a peep about a mac version until some time after the other versions came out. Lets not get too greedy with platforms right now though, first and foremost, lets get these versions out that have the biggest install base (pc and ps4) and go from there.
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Re: Mac version?

Postby Wude-Tang Clan » Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:16 pm

AnimeGamer183 wrote: I think a mac version wouldnt be bad. It would have to come later, after the PC and PS4 versions kick some butt in the sales department. I would not expect a mac version to be added to the KS though, or hear a peep about a mac version until some time after the other versions came out. Lets not get too greedy with platforms right now though, first and foremost, lets get these versions out that have the biggest install base (pc and ps4) and go from there.

More sales would be generated on Dreamcast than Mac, or almost any other platform for that matter.
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