Ati hd 3650

[milanca]

What are your thoughts guys about this video card, hd 3650 256MB ddr3? Maybe someone has it, so how's the support in OSX and your experience.

My 8600GT died so i replaced it with weaker 8500GT, it works flawlessly in OSX with native drivers, without id's added, i'm running it from dsdt. But it has poor OpenGL performance, even GMA950 from my MacBook outperforms it. Searched a bit and found that 3650 with ddr3 can also beat 8600GT, not sure though. I am planning to buy one so just curious about its OSX compatibility and also performance. Never had an ATI card before except my old FireGL Z1 in agp version for my 3d work, and it was long time ago.

I'm still waiting for mobility hd 34xx series support for my laptop, hope it will come soon.

[LawlessPPC]

What are your thoughts guys about this video card, hd 3650 256MB ddr3? Maybe someone has it, so how's the support in OSX and your experience.

My 8600GT died so i replaced it with weaker 8500GT, it works flawlessly in OSX with native drivers, without id's added, i'm running it from dsdt. But it has poor OpenGL performance, even GMA950 from my MacBook outperforms it. Searched a bit and found that 3650 with ddr3 can also beat 8600GT, not sure though. I am planning to buy one so just curious about its OSX compatibility and also performance. Never had an ATI card before except my old FireGL Z1 in agp version for my 3d work, and it was long time ago.

I'm still waiting for mobility hd 34xx series support for my laptop, hope it will come soon.

I have the 512mb version I love it on osx check my benchmark if you want figures

[milanca]

That's it buddy.. thanks a lot, i knew someone has it and its working fine.

check out my numbers:
Quartz Graphics Test 230.70
Line 184.45 12.28 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 243.76 72.78 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 198.09 16.15 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 191.76 4.84 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 530.09 33.16 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 164.59
Spinning Squares 164.59 208.79 frames/sec
User Interface Test 372.66
Elements 372.66 1.71 Krefresh/sec


I checked yours, in OpenGL its ~200.. i expected it to be much higher.. I am not sure how my macbooks gma950 goes over 300 in xbench under opengl.. definitely it has great support by apple dev. or i don't know.

[LawlessPPC]

i have run open gl stuff on both chipsets and the intel cant even handle the same resolutions in 3d so the benchmrk is flawwed

[milanca]

Yes LawlessPPC, definitely xbench is making some weird scoring on OpenGL. It was too strange for me that GMA950 has 320pts on opengl, almost 2x more than my 8500GT. I also did some parallel tests with OpenGL extension viewer using the same resolution on both. Here are the results:

Intel GMA950 test:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m140/milanca/leopard/gma950_test.jpg

nvidia 8500GT test:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m140/milanca/leopard/8500GT_test.jpg

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Big difference. Also benchmark results:

Intel GMA950 benchmark:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m140/milanca/leopard/gma950_benchmark.jpg

nvidia 8500GT benchmark:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m140/milanca/leopard/8500GT_benchmark.jpg

I just think xbench is not something to rely on, at least when it comes to openGL.

[LawlessPPC]

also my bench was carried out with quartz gl disabled will bench again to see. hardly any diff