NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac by PNY 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express Gen 2 x16 DVI-I DL, DisplayPort and Stereo OpenGL, DirectX (Boot Camp), CUDA and OpenCL Professional Graphics Board, VCQ4000MAC-PB

I've been working on an 8 core 2008 Mac Pro model mainly with After Effects. I had a 3min. long project that took 1 hour to render, after using the Quadro 4000 this time came down to 20 minutes when using Open GL. It feels like a new computer.

I have a Mac Pro and purchased this card thinking it would be a decent upgrade over the HD Radian card that came with the mac. Since day one of installing this card I had nothing but problems. 1. when switching from PC to Mac on bootcamp the audio drivers on the mac side wouldn't load and the only way to get them to load was a complete shutdown and restart. 2. On the mac side the card makes my HD Monitor flash with any movement on screen (loading web pages, opening programs, any program that does a screen update ect. 3. This card under performs the original ATI card in all 3d apps including games. In fact the ATI card ran games better. This card did nothing to improve normal performances including AE renders and previews, Cinema 3d, Photoshop ect. The tech support for PNY was terrible although the person helping me was incredibly nice but had NO CLUE ABOUT MACS AND BOOTCAMP!. I called Apple, PNY, and NVIDIA and got the typical "it's not our problem call ____" run around until I ran into this last guy but even so he couldn't help me and admitted the fact that they don't have any Mac support. This card is not worth the hassle... Believe me when I say you will just return it!

Had to send it back, unfortunately for the price you pay, this card is premature for Pro Apps. Maybe when they get the drivers right it could be the card everyone has been waiting for.

Price wise...it's below okay. I thought this would do some heavy damage in After Effects...nope! Premiere is working pretty decent with this card. I am not sure about 3D apps, because I did not test with my old 8800 to write down some numbers (so I can't compare). I was too excited to open and install this monster. But as far as doing work in Bootcamp, pretty darn good. The only thing was couple of nights ago, it made funny noises. I assume it was the fan. It was a very low noise, but a noise nonetheless. The day I installed it and I turned it on for 10 minutes, the card could boil a pan of breaded mushrooms within minutes. It truly runs hot. I have a pretty impressive tolerance with touching hot things but between 2 to 3 seconds, I had to lift my fingers. That makes me a bit concerned about my Mac tower, but I assume NVIDIA knows what they are doing. The one thing I didn't know about the Adobe Media Encoder was that you can take an After Effects project and render it with Media Encoder. Which I assume makes it faster to render, since it's using the GPU power. Very neat. I rendered a scene in Vue (3D app) and the scene took 11 hours straight to render. I was testing it for the heating issue, but the next morning I realized that the tower didn't melt, so I was relieved. I have not given it a go on the Mac side of things, so I will download a trial of CS5 and if any problems arise, I will list it here in a week.

I currently have two Nvidia Quadro 4000 mac cards and there causing my Mac Pro 2009 machine to kernel Panic and freeze or shutdown my machine.I dropped it off at the Apple store for them to diagnose the problem for 9 days and they went ahead and confirmed that it was the card which was causing the problem.NVIDIA PLEASE UPDATE YOUR DRIVERS FOR THIS CARD FOR MAC.Its ridicules that if you spend $1200 (apple store) that it will crap out your Mac Pro. I'm waiting for a updated driver in order to test the stability with the Mac ProI'm almost 100% sure I did the 10.6.6 update with the stock card, then installed the most updated drivers from Nvidia website and then installed the Cuda Drivers, then finally installing the Video card in the machine. After two days, system was acting up.Once I get my machine back from Apple tomorrow, I will go ahead and give it one more last try to see if it works. I'm mean the cards are amazing with Adobe Premiere and Media Encoder (super fast), but at the cost that your machine will be very buggy.Lets wait and see what Nvidia or PNY will do about the big problem. I'm wanting to keep these babies, so make some moves people and fix the issues for the Professionals.

Product is good .very good met my expectations

The PC version of this card supports two monitors while the MAC version only supports 1. I tried many cable connection possibilites and none worked.

Hi. I have a 2010 MacPro5,1 10.7.4 and Adobe cs6 Production Premium. I purchased the card to make ray-tracing in AE fast and feasible. (GPU vs CPU).PROS:It works with my configuration. It also makes Premiere incredibly fast; lots of realtime effects... It might convince me to jump from FCP 7 to Premiere.CONS:Documentation which ships with it sucks (QDRV-MAC-JUL11). Only driver install info. Nothing about putting the card in which slot and what to do with your existing card, etc. This is after all the Mac version, compatible with certain MacPros only as far as I can tell. So I just did my best with searching Nvidia, Apple, and Google for the correct physical and driver installation info and pictures. (Nvidia tech support was closed, and their website search feature was overloaded and yielded errors when I typed "install" into the correct field.)SUMMARY:If it shipped with a clear link to the latest CUDA and Quadro drivers, and relevant physical instal info, I would have given it 5 stars.Glad to have added functionality in AE and PrP.