The standard NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 card for the Mac Pro is merely adequate. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 upgrade—which should be shipping any day now—is an excellent option, though it's limited to 512MB of memory and can't connect two 30" Cinema Displays without a costly adapter. For Mac Pro users with serious graphics needs, NVIDIA is gearing up to give you what your heart desires.
First, the company announced last week that it is preparing a version of its Quadro FX 4800 workstation-class graphics card for the Mac Pro. If you lamented the loss of the Quadro FX 5600 option available for previous Mac Pros, the Quadro FX 4800 should give you all the "visual supercomputing power" you need. This two-slot beast has 192 processing cores and 1.5GB of fast, dedicated memory to deal with large data sets and complex models. The card also has two dual-link DVI ports that support stereo 3D.
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