Hackintosh: GeForce GTX 400 Series And Radeon HD 5800 Series Now Working

[ViRGE]

I'm surprised that no one else has posted this, but AMD/NVIDIA/Apple finally got on the ball in the last couple of weeks and have released suitable drivers for their current-gen video cards.

For NVIDIA, they mistakenly included a GTX 400 driver with the latest Mac drivers on their site. The GTX 400 series now works, although GPGPU (CUDA and OpenCL) doesn't, and the performance is very low.

As for AMD, the new Mac Mini is shipping with a slightly newer version of Mac OS X than 10.6.4. It includes a Radeon HD 5000 series driver that so far works on the 5850/5870/5970.

At this point it's safe to assume that Apple is going to release a new product with Radeon HD 5000 series support soon (new Mac Pro?). As for NVIDIA, they may also get in to a new product, or it could be that they're going to go the GTX 285 route and sell a Mac version of the card directly to consumers. In any case it's a big step up from current cards.

 

[Kaido]

I'm surprised that no one else has posted this, but AMD/NVIDIA/Apple finally got on the ball in the last couple of weeks and have released suitable drivers for their current-gen video cards.

It's cuz if you do Hackintosh, you're probably too poor to afford a $500 gaming card

 

[HaukSwe]

I challenge you to spend your way to a decent gaming machine using only Apple offerings. Multiple GT120's or HD4870 on the Mac Pro? What a joke... Enjoy high-res gaming on the iMac with that powerful HD4850...

Good news indeed, I'd like to see more reports on just how well it actually works, some bench scores and so on..I'm in the process of putting together an i7 multimedia/gaming Mini Hackintosh Pro™.

 

[TheStu]

I challenge you to spend your way to a decent gaming machine using only Apple offerings. Multiple GT120's or HD4870 on the Mac Pro? What a joke... Enjoy high-res gaming on the iMac with that powerful HD4850...

Good news indeed, I'd like to see more reports on just how well it actually works, some bench scores and so on..I'm in the process of putting together an i7 multimedia/gaming Mini Hackintosh Pro™.

Well, if the 5000 series is being added to the lineup, then there you go. There is no CrossFire or SLI on OS X though, so you are limited to just one card.

 

[Ka0t1x]

I'm still wondering if there is support for using 3 connectors at once. Might be worth investing in the card to avoid issues with two graphics cards.

 

[HaukSwe]

An iMac with HD5870 I'd be interested in getting actually - that powerful of a card in an iMac though? hmm..

The Mac Pro in it's overpriced glory (It's probably the only Mac I'll outright call overpriced) even with better cards won't beat the mighty Hackint0sh as a gaming machine...

I'd like support for the integrated HD graphics on the i5 and i7, that way I could simply use that for OS X and boot into Win7 for running games on the 5870 card until solid OS X support is out..