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- Amd Sapphire Hd 9750 For Mac Computer
If you have a Mac Pro running a Radeon HD 5770, Radeon HD 4870, GeForce GTX 285, Quadro 4000, GeForce GT120, GeForce 8800 GT, the new Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 would make a very strong upgrade. The only exception to this advice would be if you are running pro apps whose only GPU acceleration relies on CUDA support. Being a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost draws power from 2x 6-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 200 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort. Radeon HD 7950 Boost is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface.
Apple's pro-sumer Mac Pro desktop PC doesn't receive the attention-grabbing headlines of the consumer-focussed iPads and MacBooks but is a solid product nonetheless. Apple states that it can be equipped with '12 cores of processing power' and features 'high-performance Radeon graphics'. This £2,000 machine's high-performance graphics are, in fact, a Radeon HD 5770, though the user can upgrade to a Radeon HD 5870 or dual HD 5770s at the time of purchase.
It's clear that the Mac Pro is very much behind the times as far as graphics are concerned. Sapphire spies a very large - and, more to the point, profitable - gap in the market and is bringing a Radeon upgrade for existing and potential Mac Pro owners.
The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Mac card uses the same architecture as found on the regular version released over a year ago. This means it has 1,792 shaders clocked in at 800MHz and a 3GB frame-buffer running at an effective 5,000MHz. It's worth noting that the Mac Edition doesn't have the PowerTune with Boost technology available on newer models of the PC card. Outputs include two mini-DisplayPorts and a dual-link DVI.
- Elevate your Mac Pro with SAPPHIRE’s HD 7950 Mac Edition. Finally, next generation AMD Radeon performance for Mac Pro (2010 and later). Get faster processing of gaming, audio/video editing, and content creation as well as cutting-edge integrated dual-display support with cables included.
- Sapphire 7950 Mac Pricing: My Sapphire HD 7950 Mac Edition review covering installation, benchmarks and a comparison with the older ATI.
- Architosh reviews AMD Radeon based Sapphire HD 7950 Mac Edition graphics card for Apple Mac Pros. This latest board from Sapphire offers users AMD's 28nm based Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture with up to 4.3 billion transistors and highly tuned for OpenCL. We put it through a whole series of benchmarks across both gaming and pro markets, plus real world tests.
You may be wondering why a regular card cannot be used inside a Mac Pro. The answer is that the Mac card requires a different, Apple-approved BIOS. Sapphire uses the dual-BIOS functionality present in these cards to program one with an Apple BIOS and the other with Windows. Sapphire supports Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) and later.
'Exclusive to SAPPHIRE, the HD 7950 Mac Edition is based on AMD’s latest Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. This highly acclaimed architecture delivers a significant graphics performance boost for Mac Pro users in a wide range of applications including gaming, audio or video editing and content creation. For example, gaming frame rates are increased by over 200%, general benchmark performance increased by around 30% and graphics intensive benchmarks increased by as much as 300% compared with the NV 8800GT commonly used in these machines,' Sapphire said in a press statement.
And the Apple tax? The card is set to be made available for $479, or 60 per cent pricier than a PC-only card... and, for what it's worth, that's without any of the games provided by AMD's Never Settle bundle.
Expensive though it is, this appears to be the simplest method of upgrading the graphics power on any post-2010 Mac Pro computer that features a x16 PCIe slot.
Interestingly, and potentially throwing a small spanner in the Sapphire works, the current Mac Pro is no longer for sale in Europe from March 1, 2013. Signs are that a newer, faster (better graphics) version is coming out in the spring. Stay tuned.
- 11196-15
- 100352MAC
Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- Tahiti
- GPU Variant
- Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
- Architecture
- GCN 1.0
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 28 nm
- Transistors
- 4,313 million
- Die Size
- 352 mm²
Graphics Card
Radeon Hd 5770 Drivers
- Release Date
- Mar 7th, 2013
- Generation
- Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
- Predecessor
- Northern Islands
- Successor
- Sea Islands
- Production
- End-of-life
- Bus Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
- GPU Clock
- 800 MHz
- Memory Clock
- 1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
- Memory Size
- 3 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Memory Bus
- 384 bit
- Bandwidth
- 240.0 GB/s
Render Config
Amd Sapphire Hd 9750 For Macbook Air
- Shading Units
- 1792
- TMUs
- 112
- ROPs
- 32
- Compute Units
- 28
- L1 Cache
- 16 KB (per CU)
- L2 Cache
- 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
- Pixel Rate
- 25.60 GPixel/s
- Texture Rate
- 89.60 GTexel/s
- FP32 (float) performance
- 2.867 TFLOPS
- FP64 (double) performance
- 716.8 GFLOPS (1:4)
Board Design
- Slot Width
- Dual-slot
- TDP
- 200 W
- Suggested PSU
- 550 W
- Outputs
- 1x DVI
1x HDMI
2x mini-DisplayPort
- Power Connectors
- 2x 6-pin
- Board Number
- C381
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 (11_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- Shader Model
- 5.1
Card Notes
| Sapphire Exclusive |
Tahiti GPU Notes
Amd Sapphire Hd 9750 For Mac Windows 7
| Architecture Codename: Southern Islands CLRX Version: GCN 1.0 Graphics/Compute: GFX6 (gfx600) Display Core Engine: 6.0 Unified Video Decoder: 3.2 Video Compression Engine: 1.0 Exact Transistor Count: 4,312,711,873 |
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Amd Sapphire Hd 9750 For Mac Computer
| Name | GPU Clock | Memory Clock | Other Changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sapphire HD 7950 Mac Edition | 800 MHz | 1250 MHz |