If they want to work with "officially approved" solutions, it's a pair of Quadro 4000s in a Mac. Otherwise, there are previously-discussed hacks to get supposed Windows-only cards to run inside a MacPro.

Aside from ray tracing, add an SSD for caching (to more quickly retrieve previous RAM Preview tests/caches), and at least 48 GB of RAM to take better advantage of multiprocessing (which, ironically, does not help raytracing).

 - Chris

On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Chris Bobotis wrote:

> Listers,
>
> A client is looking to pick up a couple of the new Mac Pros and they asked me to help with the best specs for CS6 Raytracer.
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> I know we touched on this a while back -  what is the best, as in fastest, budget is not an issue, GPU set-up for the Mac + WIN
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> As I understood it, the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 combo Tesla is pretty much top of the heap on WIN... correct?
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> What gets closest (fastest) on the Mac?
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> Cheers,
> Chris
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