NVIDIA Unleashing Fermi Quadro 4000 GPU on Apple Desktop Systems

While most Apple products' users out there call themselves that simply because they own an iPhone or iPad, the truth of the matter is that the company from Cupertino, California also builds some of the meanest professional desktop systems on the market, the famous Mac Pros, towering computing behemoths that have been constantly lauded by graphics artists, designers, engineers, etc. And now, it seems that the Mac Pro is about to get even more powerful, since NVIDIA has just revealed the fact that it will soon be offering its Fermi-based NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions to the Mac platform. The high-end NVIDIA Quadro 4000 GPU for Mac, with 256 NVIDIA CUDA processing cores and 2GB of fast GDDR5 memory, delivers an impressive graphics performance across a broad range of design, animation and video applications, such as the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 software that employs NVIDIA CUDA parallel processing technology, the visual effects and image processing applications from The Foundry, including NUKE and STORM, and MATLAB from MathWorks. Furthermore, with new NVIDIA Scalable Geometry Engine technology, the Quadro 4000 for Mac can process up to 890 million triangles per second, enabling professionals to design, iterate and deliver higher quality results in less time. Given the fact that it has been specifically designed to work with Apple's iconic desktop solution, the Quadro 4000 GPU for Mac also provides a DisplayPort and a DVI-I (Dual Link) connector built into its bracket, and a 3D stereo bracket for optimal stereo connection to the system. A DisplayPort to mini-DisplayPort cable is also included to enable mini-DisplayPort only Apple displays (after all, cross-connectivity is a notorious problem as far as Apple's monitors are concerned). Additionally, users can enable up to four high resolution displays from a single Mac Pro using dual NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac boards. Naturally, since we're talking about a professional product here, it should come as no surprise that the Quadro 4000 GPU for Mac is fairly pricey, the add-on card selling at Apple for a whopping $1,199 USD.