Pemalite said:
AMD "fire" cards aren't geared for gaming though as the drivers sacrifice performance for quality and professional uses thanks to the focus being on things like CAD.
Dual FirePro D700 would be in only a tiny tiny tiny percentage of an already tiny percentage who opt for a high-end mac.
However... The FirePro D700 is Taihiti based, rebadged FirePro W9000, released 4 years ago.
Aka. A "professional" Radeon 7970, it's performance will be lower in gaming scenario's.
It would likely handle VR just fine... BUT. The amount of machines equipped with that hardware would be inconsiquentual, probably loose money for VR devs to bother with.
Anyway. AMD doesn't have VR compatible drivers... Yet. And Apple lags behind AMD's current driver sets anyway, by months if not more... So Dual GPU's are useless. (Windows will of course support it before release via Beta, who knows with Apple... You get what you pay for. Oh wait.)
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I'd say the FirePro cards being clocked lower is the main culprit but regardless no matter how little amount of Mac users are equipped to handle VR, Palmer can't take away the fact that some of them have potential to do VR ...
AMD already has VR compatible drivers and Apple does lag in drivers but even more so when it comes to standards!
