XLR8Yourmac published a first test of the NVidia GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition. In summary, this card is faster than the Radeon HD 4870 for games, however it remains slower for all Apple Pro applications. this is the usual biased results with NVidia graphic cards: poor performance level with Open GL which is mostly used by Apple Pro software.Overall, the performance gain in games provided by the GF GX 285 is rather limited and we have been a bit disappointed as we were expecting more from this new GPU. Again drivers might help to improve figures, and it could also changed when both cards will be compared on a hardware running Snow Leopard.
