1 product rating - Genuine Apple OEM ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition Pro 4,1 5,1 AMD 1GB Video Card. Buy It Now +$9.99 shipping. 1 new & refurbished from $129.00.
$62.00 16 Bids Sold, $6.25 Shipping, Seller: (98) 100%, Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ships to: US, Item: 86 I pulled this working ATI card out of my Mac Pro. It was fully functional, no issues and works great! Condition: Used, Brand: Diamond Multimedia, Non-Domestic Product: No, Modified Item: No, Country/Region of Manufacture: China, Memory Type: GDDR5, Chipset/GPU Model: ATI Radeon HD 5870, Memory Size: 1GB, Chipset/GPU Manufacturer: AMD, Features: Multiple Monitor Support, Connectors: 2x DVI, DisplayPort Output, HDMI Standard Output, DVI Output, APIs: DirectX 11, Custom Bundle: No, Compatible Port/Slot: PCI Express x1, Appropriate For: Casual Computing, Graphic Design, Light Gaming, Serious Gaming, Cooling Component(s) Included: Fan with Heatsink See More.
According to, Apple's for the Mac Pro does indeed work in the 2008 Mac Pro. This is despite the fact that Apple only officially lists the 2009 and 2010 Mac Pros as supported hardware for the upgrade card.
We plugged the Radeon HD 5870 into the 2008 Mac Pro. It works like a charm.
Runs Portal faster than the 6-core Westmere. Details coming soon.This gives existing 2008 Mac Pro owners another video card upgrade option from Apple. We had when the video cards had become available for purchase from Apple's online store. Barefeats has posted some preliminary on the forums: Here's an appetizer. I'm benchmarking Portal First Slice (which all my remote testers are using). At 1920x1200 with these settings: Model Detail = High, Texture Detail = High, Shader Detail = High Water Detail = Reflect All, Shadow Detail = High, Color Correction = Enabled Antialiasing Mode = None, Filtering Mode = Anisotropic 4X Vertical Sync = Disabled, Motion Blur = Enabled The 6-core Westmere 3.33 (2010) with Radeon HD 5870 = 233 FPS avg The 8-core Harpertown 3.2 (2008) with Radeon HD 5870 = 250 FPS avg The 2008 model is faster!!
Full results should appear on shortly. Three displays work on the 2008 + 5870 I took time out of benchmarking with one display to experiment with multiple displays using the newest GPUs. (Special thanks to 'Pegasusrjf' for his input.) With the Radeon HD 5870 installed in the 2008 Mac Pro, I got three displays to light up and work with this setup: 1. 23' Cinema on the DVI port 2. 23' Cinema with MDP to dual-link DVI adapter on first MDP port 3.
24' LED Cinema with direct MDP connection to second MDP port Tried the same setup with the Radeon HD 5770 in the 2008 Mac Pro: Only 2 of the 3 displays light up.