Mac Pro D700's have 7 teraflops of GPU power, more than a GTX 980 Ti. VR Ready?

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So, the Mac Pro with dual D700 cards with 3.5 TF each with a 7 TF combined should put the machine well into the realm of VR, assuming Crossfire is supported. So, when Steam say they are working on Mac for VR I would like to believe this is possible. I mean a Single GTX 980 Ti has just 5.6 TF of power so the dual D700's should be more than enough to power VR.

It would be nice if the VR Performance Test took Crossfire into consideration when showing results too.

Your thoughts?

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I'm thinking the Mac Pro is not built for gaming. That's an expensive setup to make it do something it isn't really built to do.

My guess is that Apple is going to do something proprietary when it comes to VR.

Eventually VR is going to have real world uses outside of gaming. Maybe Apple can be at the forefront of that in some way. I have to admit, I have less confidence in Apple's ability to innovate in a timely fashion since Steve Jobs' death. Tim Cook is not a bad person, but he's a logistics wizard, and so he's not able to drive innovation the way Steve Jobs could.

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I mostly agree, Mac innovation just got a serious shot across the bow from Microsoft with their Surface Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMLA8YIgG0 And the lack of modern hardware in every new release in favour of battery, thinness and eye candy is starting to irritate their users.

The Mac line are mostly designers/creative machine, but many designers design games so being capable of gaming should be up there. It isn't. Even Apple's release of AMD drivers are far behind official AMD drivers causing many people like myself to install hacked drivers to get the latest AMD builds (bootcamp).

However, you would never buy a Mac Pro just for gaming, thats just throwing money away.

Saying all that, I have 6 cores at 3.5Ghz and 7 Teraflops of GPU Grunt so it should be a decent gaming machine when I am not designing on it. Just saying :)

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I agree with everything you just said, including the surface studio comments.

The problem with the rig being a good gaming machine is that there's no reason for anyone to expend resources on developing it as such. There's no real market for it. It's part of the issue all of us on this forum have. It's not that games are developed for OSX, but it's rarely a priority, and sometimes the OS is completely ignored. And OSX overall is a much bigger market than Mac Pro's specifically represent.