In the UK the HD4870 from AMD is the most powerful officially supported GPU for Mac OS X. The GTX285 from EVGA, while comparable, is currently only available in the US (for benchmarks head to BareFeats).
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Here it is, the GTX 285 from NVIDIA, quite a jump from the ancient 8800GT. As HardMac reports:
[It's] price tag is most likely designed to directly compete with the Radeon HD 4870: 436.66 USD. Interestingly, the Mac Edition is “only” 60 USD more expensive than the PC version (from the same website). This will be a cheaper alternative to the Mac Edition Radeon HD 4870. However, as we reported it earlier, the PC version of the Radeon HD 4890 might be a perfect alternative too.
As HardMac reported earlier in the month, EVGA are developing this card and is available to order now, but probably won’t be sent out till next month.
I’m glad that we’re getting some better cards. My Mac Pro, both in MacOSX and Windows, has begun to suffer when playing the most recent games. I’m still playing through Prince of Persia for Mac - and enjoying it - but it can be very laggy unless you have one of the newer NVIDIA GPUs or the HD4870.
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