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FIRST GEN SHOOTOUT:
Radeon HD 5870 + 5770 in
the 2006 Mac Pro versus older GPUs

Posted Tue, August 31st, 2010, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist
Appended September 8th with info on multi-display support.
Corrections September 10th (2600 XT was reallly a 3870 XT)

We reported last Friday on the Radeon HD 5870 running in the 2006 Mac Pro. We went back to the PowerMax lab for another round of testing. We tested five GPUs (old and new). The one we could not find was the popular GeForce 8800 GT. But thanks to Remote Mad Scientists, we have partial results for it (with more to come).

NEWS FLASH: Radeon HD 5870 kit status became 'Ships: Within 24hrs' on November 12th, 2010, on Apple Store USA.

Fastest average FPS is in RED.

INSIGHTS
The Radeon HD 5870 in a 2006 Mac Pro may be overkill for gamers. With the exception of Portal, it was only slightly faster than the Radeon HD 5770. Top fsx s. But if you want to 'be all you can be,' then it's nice to know the 5870 is an option even for the first generation Mac Pro.

With non-games, there is mixed results as well. When we ran Motion previews and Color playback, the difference between the two cards was minute. At $249, the 5770 just seems to me the sensible choice if you wish to extend the life of your 'First Generation' Mac Pro.

As I said before, adding the Radeon HD 5870 or 5770 to your 2006 Mac Pro won't cause it to 'leap tall buildings in a single bound.' But these new cards will help you 'clear low buildings with a running start.'

Big MAHALO to PowerMax providing the 2006 Mac Pro test unit.
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SPECIAL UPDATE ON MULTI-DISPLAY SUPPORT
The Radeon 5770 and 5870 support three displays on all models of Mac Pro from 2006-2010.Through experimentation and advice from 'Pegasusrjf,' I got three displays to work simultaneously with this setup:
1. 23' Cinema or 30' Cinema on the DVI port
2. 23' Cinema with MDP to dual-link DVI adapter* to first MDP port
3. 24' LED Cinema with direct MDP connection to second MDP port

On some occasions after power up, only one display would light up. But when I would pull out one of the Mini DisplayPort cables, then two would light up. Plug it back in and now three were lit. So there is still some 'ooga booga' with multi-display support.
(* The 'plain' DVI to MDP adapter is adequate if only two displays are connected. For more on this issue, see Apple Tech Note HT4279.)

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This feature is now supported on Evergreen family GPUs. Harness the power of multiple GPUs for extreme, high-definition gaming and 3D image quality 3. On HD, the driver using following six parts:. All reference board designs of the Radeon HD series are half-height, making them suitable for a low profile form factor chassis. Need for Speed Shift In addition, some features or technologies may require you to purchase additional components in order to make full use of them e. Different non-reference board designs from vendors may lead to slight variations in actual TDP.

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Up to 24x mobilitt and super-sample anti-aliasing modes Adaptive anti-aliasing Super AA 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering bit floating point HDR rendering. Additionally, the ran at MHz and a lower voltage, while the used more power, but ran at MHz. On Ati 5870 mobility, the driver using following six parts:.

Mobility Radeon HD

Resident Evil 5 This article is about all products under the Radeon HD Series brand. Current technologies and software. As of Julyother operating systems are not officially supported.

The Radeon HD 5870 card requires Mac OS X 10.6.4 or later and the use of both auxiliary power connections. Mac Pro (Early 2008). GENUINE APPLE ATI Radeon HD 5870 1 GB Graphic Video Card for Mac Pro 3,1 4,1 5,1 - $99.95. Genuine Apple ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB Graphic Video Card for Mac Pro 3,1 4,1 5,1Pulled from Working Mac Pros 06.

All reference board designs of the Radeon HD series are half-height, making them suitable for a low profile form factor ati 5870 mobility.

A compatible HDCP display is also needed for this.

The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. Windows 7 Experience Index – Graphics. The free and open-source ati 5870 mobility graphics driver supports most of the features implemented into the Radeon line of GPUs. This feature is now supported on Evergreen family GPUs. Third parties manufacturing products based on, or incorporating ATI Radeon HD graphics chips, may choose to enable some or all of these features.

Of ati 5870 mobility, this depends on how many monitor outputs the laptop can physically support. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Retrieved October 9, See article on R’s pixel shaders. If a particular feature is important to you, please inquire of the manufacturer if a particular product supports this feature.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD – Tech

Archived from the original on Different non-reference board designs from vendors may lead to slight variations in actual TDP. HD capable monitor required.

Bad Company 2 The series is designed to assume a low-profile card size. Ati 5870 mobility more variant, with only stream cores, is available and Radeon HD was suggested as the product name.

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

The entire HD series products have Eyefinity capabilities supporting three outputs. Digital rights management restrictions may apply.

The variant disabled one shader engine, so had only stream processors 4 engines, 80 VLIW-5 units each. Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual p streams. Codenamed Redwood XT ati 5870 mobility, the series has all five of Redwood’s shader engines enabled.

TeraScale 2 was introduced with this. Retrieved ati 5870 mobility ” https: The free and open-source “Radeon” graphics device drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.

Beginning from Flash Assuming adequate memory bandwidth, the new version can decode two HD streams simultaneously e. HDCP is mandatory for the output of certain audio formats, placing additional constraints on the multimedia setup.

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