teknojunkie Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Leaked GTX 280 PICS GeForce GTX 280: 512-Bit 1GB GDDR3 240 Stream Processors PhysX Ready CUDA Technology PureVideo HD technology Full MS DirectX 10 Support Open GL 2.1, SLI, PCIe 2.0 Support GeForce GTX 260: 448-Bit 896MB GDDR3 192 Stream Processors PhysX Ready CUDA Technology PureVideo HD technology Full MS DirectX 10 Support Open GL 2.1, SLI, PCIe 2.0 Support "I don't have a whole lot of info for you because I can't read this page and translation services aren't much help either. These are supposedly leaked GeForce GTX 280 photos. I am not sure about the authenticity of the pics or info but it is always fun to speculate on this kind of stuff. I snagged a couple pics to whet your appetite, hit the link above for all the pictures." ~hardocp.com NVIDIA "GT200" is pretty much ready More than a few NVIDIA partners have been revealing information about the upcoming "GT200" chip from NVIDIA. The G8x architectures has been with us for an extremely long time, and with the G9x refresh, NVIDIA has had more time than ever to complete the true next generation architecture, known as both "G100" and "GT200". Apparently, NVIDIA has been working hard because the story is that NVIDIA could present its next architecture any day now, if it wanted to, but instead it's going to keep riding the G92 wave until AMD is ready to launch the R7x series. The only kind of information about the performance that has leaked was posted by German HT4U.net, which stated that GT200 would sport twice the FPU performance of G92. This doesn't say much about the actual performance though, but we would be very surprised if GT200 doesn't stand up to R7x. courtesy of http://maxishine.com.au Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karakino Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 i hope that this video card quickly get support for the Hackintosh... This will be my future videocard to play with Stalker Clear Sky and some other games so it will be nice to utilise it in both osx86 and pc-vista platforms... Hope that the guys behind the coding of the nvidia video drivers for osx86 begin to work on them as soon as they receive it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 The "guys" don't code nvidia drivers for OSX, Apple does. Leopard 10.5.3 doesn't support it, though Snow Leo does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karakino Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 The "guys" don't code nvidia drivers for OSX, Apple does. Leopard 10.5.3 doesn't support it, though Snow Leo does I hope so... I hope that some1 manage to get gtx280 working as fast as i've seen for the 9800GX2... i thought that to get a new videocard like 9800gx2 was a big task... instead the "guys" managed to do that pretty quickly... Luck? I got great hope for this new video card and the ability of the community to find a way to make it work on 10.5.3 ^__^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 will never work on Leopard 10.5.3. Your best bet would be to hope for Apple to add the proper drivers in 10.5.5 (they won't in 10.5.4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbrush Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I would put my bet on out of the box support for 9800 GTx (which in reality, its already supported) and 9800 GX2 since Apple has a history of lacking behind 1 or 2 models from the top end in terms of video performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlad1966 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 GTX280 isn't that impressive if you look @ real-world PC benchmarks compared to 9800GTX. I'm hoping for support of Radeon 4870 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy01 Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 I just ordered the eVGA 280 GTX SSC edition. Getting it tonight. My only worries atm is if OS X 1.5.2 nvdia drivers i have for my 8800gt will work with the 280 gtx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted June 19, 2008 Author Share Posted June 19, 2008 I just ordered the eVGA 280 GTX SSC edition. Getting it tonight. My only worries atm is if OS X 1.5.2 nvdia drivers i have for my 8800gt will work with the 280 gtx. depends if it has the same chipset it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGOvoruhk Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 depends if it has the same chipset it should work. It is based on the G92, so there shouldn't be much of an issue making it work I'm sure once aqua-mac gets his hands on one, he'll get it working. Once that happens, I'll be picking one up myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 yep me too i want one of these might even get 2 man i wish nvidia would release sli drivers for crossfire motherboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 this thing isn't a g92 tho, if a 9600gt wont work this likely wont too. also the 'real world benchmarks' you speak of comparing it against a 9800gx is actually the gx2 model (with 2 GPUs). this card is indeed impressive, however it only really shines when running at really high resolutions. if you're stuck at 1440x900 there's basically no point getting more than a 8800gts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gonif Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 The "guys" don't code nvidia drivers for OSX, Apple does. You know, I've always wondered why that is. Is it because Mac marketshare is too low for nVidia to spend the time writing OS X drivers? If so, maybe that will change as more people switch to Macs. It's frustrating because it seems that the video card manufacturers stop at nothing to insure their Windows drivers are as highly performing as possible, and then they don't even bother getting most the cards even working on Macs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 I said Apple, but 99% of the drivers are written by NVIDIA, just help by Apple for 1%, that's all But still, they need some green light from Apple when coding these drivers and aren't 100% independent like Windows drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 The "guys" don't code nvidia drivers for OSX, Apple does. Leopard 10.5.3 doesn't support it, though Snow Leo does Actually, Nvidia and ATI write the basic driver and also provide source code and patches to Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detosx Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Am I right in saying it could be a while before support becomes available for the ATI 4850 or 4870 or is it anybody's guess at this stage? How about historically speaking? The former seems to blow the 8800GT away and the latter seems to see off the 9800GTS. The 9800GTS overclocked (the spec of which is apparently close to the GTX) seemed give all comers a run for their money but I would need to up the rest of my spec to house it. I'm not sure my Coolermaster 450W could entertain any of the above, let alone an 8800GS or GT. Any thoughts welcome. Keen to upgrade. In terms of budget I was keen to go for a Samsung 22" pebble and something that won't make my decent but modest Coolermaster explode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 I just ordered the eVGA 280 GTX SSC edition. Getting it tonight. My only worries atm is if OS X 1.5.2 nvdia drivers i have for my 8800gt will work with the 280 gtx. So, how has your luck been Jaggy? What happen? Did it work? Any news/word/ideas on when the GTX 260 will be supported UNOFFICIALLY thanks to the community in 10.5.3 or 10.5.4? Is anyone or any groups working on custom drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 There won't be drivers for 10.5.3 or 10.5.4. Maybe 10.5.5 who know s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Why is that? How does that work? Is it based of off Apple's support for the card, then, and not the community? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackeron Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Do we hackintosh users have any support for these yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czpcgk Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Do we hackintosh users have any support for these yet? Not with QE/CI. Please use search next time. There are many threads on this already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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