AMD Radeon 4000 Series Graphic Cards Get Mac Treatment

After the higher than normal fail rate of Nvidia 9400 GPU’s in Macbooks, Apple has decided to give AMD graphic cards a larger presence in their iMac and Mac Pro systems.

AMD has announced that their Radeon HD 4000 series of graphic cards will now be the main GPU used in place of the failing Nvidia cards. They’ve also announced that the cards are able to support Snow Leopards new OpenCL system which allows designers to create software that’s more evenly distributed between the users CPU and GPU.

The ATI HD 4870 video card can be spotted in Mac Pro systems, while the ATI HD 4850 cards are offered in iMac systems. [via SlashGear]