The real FirePro's actually have ECC memory. The D700 for example is simply a HD 7970 with different drivers. The D300, D500 and D700 in the Mac Pro are not true FirePro cards. It's like you're saying an i7 is the same a Xeon. The FirePro series is a different card from the Radeon series. There are however plenty of indie titles available and the situation is improving, there are more games launching on the Mac at the same time as PC than ever before but it's still not good enough. GTAV will be launching on PC next month, it will not be launching on the Mac. Many games with large marketing budgets do not see Mac ports. Just try firing up a graphically intensive game like Minecraft (yes I'm being sarcastic) and watch the fans on a Retina MacBook Pro spin up like the large hadron collider ready to smash atoms. The portables are the worst offenders and they are also the most popular computers Apple sell. Gaming on a Mac be it a Retina MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro gets loud and hot. Since replaced by the HD 290X and soon 390X within the next few weeks. Same story with the Mac Pro, it has D300 D500 or D700's the D700 is simply a rebranded AMD HD 7970, a 2013 card. The Retina MacBook Pro for example still ships with a 750m - A GPU that came out in Mid 2013 and has since been replaced by the 850m and now 950m (just launched days ago). Apple doesn't ship great graphics cards, they ship good ones and decent ones but not great ones.Īpple allows their graphics to languish far longer than the industry.

I want a mac for gaming video