Is the 8800 a dud and should I return it ?
Hey guys, I bought a GeForce 8800 a couple of days ago, having never heard of the ATI HD3870. I use to be a PC user and simply went with my old instinct of "You want the best for 3D graphics you go with NVidia." (As I do 3D animation)
Only I never imagined that Apple would have horrendous drivers for the card. Now I'm stuck with a card that adds no performance increase to my 3D application compared to my old ATI XT1900 ?!
Should I keep it, hoping Apple gets their act together and update the drivers soon or should I just get the HD3870? I can't imagine how ticked off buyers of a new Mac Pro must have felt, I just bought a new card, but someone that bought a complete system with the card, seeing such bad performance, must have been steaming mad?!
As there been sign of a fix in sight? If they fixed it, then the 8800 should be faster than even a HD3870. While now it's barely able to stand up to the HD2600 ?!
Malcolm Rayfield wrote:
also all the resolutions on the Cinema HD display are out of focus, except the 1920x1200 resolution
All LCDs have to run at native resolution to get a sharp picture. That is not a fault of the graphics card.
He is very correct on that statement.
CRTs can look sharp at multiple res because of their design.
LCD panels have a fixed resolution for exactly how many pixels there are.
I too was somewhat disappointed by the performance of the 8800GT.
I was a home built Windows based PC owner until the Mac Pro.
Coming from a 7600GTOC there wasn't as significant of an improvement as I was expecting.
With that said I don't regret getting the 8800GT as it was the clear winner of the possible cards.
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