Nvidia 8800 Gt For Mac

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This article applies only to video cards that originally shipped with a specified Mac Pro or were offered as an upgrade kit by Apple. Similar cards that were not provided by Apple may have compatibility issues and you should work with the vendor of that card to confirm compatibility.

The GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition was a graphics card by NVIDIA, launched in February 2008. Built on the 65 nm process, and based on the G92 graphics processor, in its G92-270-A2 variant, the card supports DirectX 11.1. Even though it supports DirectX 11, the feature level is only 100, which can be problematic with many DirectX 11 & DirectX 12. The Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT card that our new Mac Pro came with is a $200 option; it comes with 512MB of graphics memory—twice the graphics memory as the stock ATI card. The GeForce 8800 GT. In order to run Mac OS X Applications that leverage the CUDA architecture of certain NVIDIA graphics cards, users will need to download and install the 7.5.20 driver for Mac located here. New in Release 346.03.02f01: Graphics driver updated for Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11 (15A284).

Mac Pro (2019)

Learn more about cards you can install in Mac Pro (2019) and how to install PCIe cards in your Mac Pro (2019).

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

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  • Dual AMD FirePro D300
  • Dual AMD FirePro D500
  • Dual AMD FirePro D700

Mac Pro (Mid 2010) and Mac Pro (Mid 2012)

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  • ATI Radeon HD 5770
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870
    Learn about graphics cards supported in macOS 10.14 Mojave on Mac Pro (2010) and Mac Pro (Mid 2012).
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Mac Pro (Early 2009)

  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870, offered as an upgrade kit
    The Radeon HD 5870 card requires Mac OS X 10.6.4 or later and the use of both auxiliary power connections.

Mac Pro (Early 2008)

  • ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (part number 630-9191 or 630-9897)*
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870, offered as an upgrade kit
    The Radeon HD 4870 card requires Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later.

Mac Pro (Original)

Nvidia Geforce 8800 Gt Mac Pro 2008

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
  • ATI Radeon X1900 XT
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 (part number 630-7532 or 630-7895)*
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (part number 630-9492), offered as an upgrade kit.*
    The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT card requires Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later with the Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 or the computer may not start up properly.

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* To identify a graphics card part number, check the label on the back of the card.