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EVGA GeForce GTX 285

For maximum performance with graphics-intense applications, upgrade to the EVGA GeForce GTX 285 graphics card for the Mac Pro. Perfect for single or dual displays of up to 2560x1600 resolution, it offers 1GB of GDDR3 memory and 240 processing cores to unlock extra performance so you can get better gaming, motion graphics, 3D modeling, rendering and animation.

  • PCI Express 2.0
  • 1GB GDDR3 memory
  • 240 stream processors
  • Two dual-link DVI-I ports

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Overview

Upgrade to the best graphics performance available with the EVGA GeForce GTX 285 video card for the Mac Pro. The 1GB of GDDR3 memory and 240 processing cores maximize performance with graphics-intensive applications like 3D gaming, motion graphics, 3D modeling, rendering and animation.

Features

  • Second-generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture
  • NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology
  • NVIDIA CUDA technology
  • PCI Express 2.0 support
  • Two dual-link DVI to drive up to two 30-inch displays
  • OpenGL optimization and support

System requirements

  • Mac Pro (Early 2009 with 1066Mhz DDR3) or Mac Pro (Early 2008 with 800Mhz DDR2 FB-DIMM memory)
  • One open PCI Express x16 2.0 slot (Note: card is double-wide and will cover an adjacent, open slot unless installed in PCI Express Slot 1)
  • Mac OS X v10.5.7 or later

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You can use this card to accelerate your Mac Pro system, increase your display resolution and enable CUDA technology.

Apple Recommends for...

Running graphics-intensive applications for gaming, graphic design, art-directing, illustrating, web-browsing, photography, video production and HD-video-watching.

Technical specifications

  • Memory: 1GB GDDR3
  • Processing cores: 240
  • Ports: Two dual-link DVI-I
  • Max. digital resolution: 2560 x 1600 x 32 bpp at 60Hz
  • Max. analog resolution: 2048 x 1536 x 32 bpp at 85Hz
  • Cables: Requires two 6-pin auxiliary power cables connected (included)
  • Form factor: Double-wide card
  • Dimensions (HxL): 4.376 x 10.5 in./111.15 x 266.7 mm
  • Weight: 1.75 lbs./.79 kg

What's in the box?

  • EVGA GeForce GTX 285 graphics card
  • EVGA driver CD
  • DVI to VGA adapter
  • Two 6-Pin auxiliary power cables

Warranty

Two-year limited (For full details, please visit www.evga/support/warranty.)

Mfr. Part No.: 01G-P3-1080-TR

 

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  • EVGA GeForce GTX 285

    5.0

    Great Video Card!

    Written by BD from Portland

    Jun 9, 2009

    I received and installed this card today in my early 2009 Mac Pro. You'll definitely want to read the manual prior to installing as you need to make sure you install the driver from the CD *BEFORE* you install the card in your Mac. If you don't the system will kernel panic and crash at startup.

    This means you'll have to yank the card to do a clean install on Leopard systems (since the driver doesn't ship on the Leopard DVD or the system install discs that come with the Mac Pro). This is a hassle but you can't fault the card or EVGA as the video card is newer than the 2009 Mac Pro hardware! Presumably the driver will ship with 10.6.

    Other than that it works great when booted into Windows 7/Vista and while running under Mac OS. Games look great!     …More

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  • EVGA GeForce GTX 285

    4.0

    Easy to install, works great

    Written by KK from Novi

    Jun 10, 2009

    The card arrived today, and other than the premium price, it works great. Powered up the ACD30 without problems, and was an easy swap to the Radeon 4870, including the power cables. There seems to be some performance issues with the drivers, but this will be worked out with time. If you are looking for an upgrade to the GT120/130 cards, especially for CUDA/OpenGL or gaming, this is the current card to get. Just remember it has two dual link DVI-D connectors, no mini displayport connector. …More

    125 of 145 people found this useful

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  • EVGA GeForce GTX 285

    5.0

    WOW!

    Written by CB from SEATTLE

    Jun 11, 2009

    I have a new Mac Pro, a 30" Cinema HD Display and now an amazingly improved image on the screen. I had the ATI Radeon 4870 HD but what a difference 500 more MBs make! Again I say WOW! …More

    137 of 226 people found this useful

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  • EVGA GeForce GTX 285

    5.0

    So far so good!

    Written by SB from Burlington

    Nov 14, 2009

    The GTX 285 installed with little effort into my MacPro3,1 (2008). The trickiest part was attaching the power cables to the sockets on the motherboard, my fat fingers didn't help this... Be sure you do this before inserting the card. The Snow Leopard 10.6.2 drivers are working just fine. The renders in FCP do seem accelerated and I'm having no issues with the output. (Knock wood). …More

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  • EVGA GeForce GTX 285

    3.0

    Bad for FCS

    Written by EO from Moscow

    Nov 6, 2009

    Great for Nuke, Maya, Aperture, Adobe CS.
    Bad fror FCS (displays the video with artifacts, like 256 colors).
    Not support DVI to Video Adapter. …More

    3 of 4 people found this useful

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  • EVGA GeForce GTX 285

    3.0

    Good Card for anything but Maya 2009...

    Written by PT from Newport

    Nov 4, 2009

    I bought this card the day it was released as an upgrade for my, at the time, recently purchased Mac Pro which came with an ATI 2600. However I soon discovered that under OSX 10.5 or 10.6 Maya 2009 suffers from heavy artifacting with marquee selection, along with disappearing windows and numbers.

    The good news is that when booted into a boot camp partition running Windows XP x64 or Windows 7 64, the card works like a charm. The drivers developed for Windows are far superior than the OSX ones by a huge margin.

    I'm hoping that with the release of Maya 2010 that these issues will be resolved, but until then I am stuck with a buggy app in my beloved OS of choice.

    Side Note: Zbrush 3.12 runs just fine in both OSes and behaves as it should for the most part. Looking forward to 3.5 for the Mac.

    Unfortunately I am seeing myself using Windows on my Mac more than OSX simply because the software I use is primarily used on a PC platform hence Zbrush 3.5 being already released :(     …More

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