The buyer can choose from two dual-core Intel Xeon Woodcrest at 2.0, 2.66, or 3.0 GHz. So stick with us till the end and make a known purchase decision next time you thought of buying a graphic card for your Mac Pro 3 1.
On the other hand, if your Mac Pro is 2006/2007 era - your money might be better spent on a new quad-core iMac which will have much faster memory and processors/etc.and the kernel will run at 64 bit. Mac Pro (Mid 2006) Apple introduced the Mac Pro as a fully customizable quad-core computer. In this article we will be listing a number of best graphics cards for Mac Pro 3 1. If your Mac Pro is indeed that old (pre 2008) you might also consider purchasing a SSD for your boot drive if you want to up your performance. There is also a 5870, but I don't know that the extra $200 buys you anything for ArchiCAD: peak performance on games might be better, but it consumes a whole lot more power and these benchmarks don't make a convincing argument for the extra cost:Īpple's page says that the 5770 is for Mid 2010 Mac Pro's and later - but you can read in the Q/A and on various sites that the card in fact works for old Mac Pros from 2006 onwards. This card has excellent performance and supports OpenCL for the Apple Pro apps that use the graphics card chip accelerator. I've still got my old monitor plugged into the DVI port.
One of the reasons, besides performance, for my upgrade was to get a mini displayport so that I could use the 27" Apple LED display. Last year and have been completely satisfied. I upgraded my Mac Pro to the Radeon HD 5770 for $249 via Apple here: For example, my Early 2008 Mac Pro has model number 3,1. Apple Menu > About this Mac then click More Info to get to the System Report. For a question like this, we need to know the model number of your Mac Pro and/or the year. As the Wiki says "You can be confident that all of the current Macs come with a video card that is compatible with ArchiCAD." One of the many reasons that Apple products are great is that Apple delivers the entire package - so it just works.