Mac Pro’s Priciest Video Card Actually Kinda Sucks for Gaming
Benchmarking the new Mac Pro’s default Nvidia GeForce GT 120 against the ATI Radeon HD 4870—a $US200 upgrade—Crave finds that the Radeon doesn’t deliver a whole lot of boom, especially in Call of Duty.
It does provide a bump over the cheaper GT 120, but as Rich Brown says, it only pushes the Mac Pro’s gaming performance from “mediocre” to “acceptable.” And this is on his $US3499 review machine.
Obviously there are way cheaper and more powerful Windows alternatives for gaming, especially if you build your own, but the option for an even awesomer (if pricier) graphics card from Apple, like a Radeon HD 4870 X2, would be nice. We know the Mac Pro isn’t built for gamers, but still. Let’s hear your best “Macs suck for gaming” comments below anyway. Be clever, people! [Crave]
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Macs do suck in general for gaming but are a really great all round machine, I would probably not buy a mac pro, I would rather get a macbook pro and a custom built gaming PC.
The Radeon HD 4870 is a joke in a professional level CAD workstation too, Apple screws too groups of people here. The Quadro FX 5800 would be nice as a professional card and a GTX 295 or a Radeon HD 4870×2 would be nice gaming cards. Apple screws everyone graphically on this one. The GeForce GT 120 shouldn’t even be an option in a computer of this caliber. A liquid cooling option for the CPU’s and GPU’s would be nice for the overclockers, or anyone that want better performance and a longer lifetime from there parts. Could be a lot quieter than those jet engine fans.