EVGA Launches GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Though EVGA's new GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition is advertised as offering "brand new, never before seen features," it is virtually identical to Nvidia's reference GTX 680 graphics card. Aside from including the company's in-house cooling design, it can only cite software comparability as a notable feature.
As the name suggests, the GTX 680 Mac Edition is intended for Early 2008 (or later) Mac Pro computers and has out-of-the-box support for Mac OS X v10.8.3 and Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 via Apple Boot Camp.
Name | Nvidia Reference GTX 680 | EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition |
|---|---|---|
Core Clock | 1006 MHz | 1006 MHz |
Boost Clock | 1059 MHz | 1058 MHz |
Memory | 2 GB GDDR5 256-bit | 2 GB GDDR5 256-bit |
Memory Clock | 6008 GHz | 6008 GHz |
Shaders | 1536 | 1536 |
ROPs | 32 | 32 |
Texture Fillrate | 128.8 GT/s | 128.8 GT/s |
The EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition's pricing and availability is still unknown, but we can safely expect to see it retail at a higher price point than a standard GTX 680.
My prediction:
"Hm, what if we release a limited edition GTX Titan for the Macs as well?..."
http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=342955&d=1339537683
Deus Ex Human Revolution, but my bet is that will run on intel HD 4000
Gaming is pretty much moot on Apple machines, but multimedia and compute applications are not.
Also, boo EVGA.. they took away the ONLY reason to buy a mac edition card... the pretty white shroud! XP
Of course, but most consumers won't know that..
Not to be THAT guy, but Borderlands 2 is available for Mac on Steam and every Source game from Valve is also available for Mac OSX.
Really... the best video card available on an iMac is the same I have in my alienware laptop :-/
That depends on what you consider a good game. I prefer Bethesda games like Fallout and Oblivian but if you like the Online Call of Duty stuff then...
Since Tom's is to lazy to do any proper research and give us a price I found this at xlabs,
"EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 2GB will cost much more than similar graphics adapters for Windows-based PCs. The graphics card will cost $599 and will be available shortly."
Would love to have this in a Mac Pro but do games work on Xenon processors?
$2.674
One 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor
8GB (4X2GB)
2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
Boot camp. Most MAC users i know have windows installed.
Yes. A Xeon is an Intel x86-64 CPU, you will be fine. Game away.
It's easy to game on mac, there are 3 games I play now that run native on OSX, Diablo 3, Eve Online, Guild Wars 2. There is also such thing as bootcamp and it works great. I used it on my Imac to play BF3.
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac/
You are incorrect, how in the hell is a 680 mobile way behind the times ? It's current tech as of right now. Also they are no slower than a pc running 2560 x 1440.