Thread: ATI 5870 with 2GB and 6 Mini Display Port outputs sighted

Quote: Originally Posted by irishgrizzly Would a Mac Pro handle 2 of these working together in Windows? Not with internal power. You would need an external 12 V power supply of respectable size. http://www.seventeam.com.tw/product_...pid=129&cid=48 something close to this perhaps

Quote: Originally Posted by irishgrizzly Would a Mac Pro handle 2 of these working together in Windows? No. The Mac Pro doesn't have enough PCIe power feeds for 2 of these - you could possibly jury-rig a solution but it wouldn't be elegant in the slightest. Crossfire may/may not work.

Quote: Originally Posted by alphaod Yeah we might get a Mac version—crippled with only half the VRAM and costs twice as much as the regular verison. I think this 6 Mini-DisplayPort card is actually the Mac version, since no one uses Mini-DisplayPort except for Apple.

Yay@full-width vent. And Voidness kind of has a point. Has anyone found a single other Mini DP product aside from adapter cables that isn't made by Apple?

I wonder if ATI will release a Mac version of this card? http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.p...=30749&catid=2 Quote: Although not yet announced an interesting new Cypress-based card has popped up online, a Radeon HD 5870 boasting 2GB of GDDR5 memory, which is double the amount found on current models, and featuring no less than six Mini DisplayPort outputs. Dropping the dual DVI and HDMI ports for more DP connectors enables AMD to...

Yeah we might get a Mac version—crippled with only half the VRAM and costs twice as much as the regular verison.

I heard about this a while back. Very cool.

oh my lord! that is insane! i wonder if the card would sell that good. 6DP ports? wow

Quote: Originally Posted by irishgrizzly Would a Mac Pro handle 2 of these working together in Windows? Not 2 on the current (2006-2009) Mac Pros, unless apple adds more pci power connectors in the next Mac Pro which I think would be nice and hopefully they'll add the 5870 to the Mac lineup of GPUs.

I'd pay $1000 for that right now.