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Geforce GTX 285 to be made available for Macs

by on30 April 2009

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Coming in June


What might be one of the most interesting announcements of the week is the fact that Nvidia’s single-GPU flagship card, the Geforce GTX 285, will be making its way to Apple Mac Pro users starting from June.

The news doesn’t come as much of a surprise considering Nvidia’s recent release of an OpenCL driver for those developers looking for a more “heterogeneous processing” solution than CUDA. It is important to note that the upcoming Mac OS X “Snow Leopard” release is expected to make heavy use of parallel GPU computing. As such, OpenCL will merely act as a layer on top of the CUDA driver interface.

This means good news for both companies, which will benefit from each other on the hardware side and driver interface department respectively.

Engadget revealed an EVGA branded GTX 285 Mac Edition, shown below. We have been told by EVGA that more details will be revealed soon. All in all, we are assuming it's just a standard GTX 285 flashed with an EFI ROM that comes with a Mac drivers disc.

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Last modified on 30 April 2009
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