Today I am running Mac Pro whit Snow Leopard and graphics card ATI Radeon HD 2600. No current Cuda support.

But i will buy evga geforce gtx 285 1gb mac.

Please confirm that my Boinc will runner faster after this upgrade. Otherwise I will save my money ;)

Thanks
Erik

It will make no difference at all to the speed of running of BOINC.

It will make a considerable difference to the speed of running of project science applications, but only if the project has a CUDA application compatible with Snow Leopard - and I haven't heard of any yet.

You will need to research what applications are available at each of the projects you are attached to: I suggest that you do that before spending any money on the replacement graphics card.

As far as I know, BOINC doesn't support CUDA on Mac at all, no matter the version of the OS, and no matter what the project does.

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You're never too old to learn. BOINC does do CUDA - and at this moment ATI - detection on the Mac, as long as you have all the correct drivers installed. As far as I understand from Charlie, it's been doing that since early 6.6 versions.

Charlie Fenton, in an email dated 13 January 2009 wrote:

BOINC for the Mac is fully CUDA-ready. To use it, the user must separately install the CUDA drivers when NVIDIA releases the updated ones.

The first OSX to have all libraries and drivers in a working order though is Snow Leopard. There are no projects yet - that I know of - that will do their own applications with CUDA. Perhaps that on some there are 3rd party apps. Check the project forums for that.

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