In our article Apple announced that Mojave would be supported on Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, plus 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models as long as they had a recommended Metal-capable graphics cards. This triggered questions from a number of you like Karl Mainzer who asked: “Can you recommend a decent Metal compatible graphics card?” Once I started to research this it became clear it would be better to answer this with a dedicated article.The first thing to be aware of is that neither of the stock graphics cards used in the cheese-graters, the Radeon 5770 or the Nvidia GeForce GT120 graphics cards are metal compatible. If you wish to use a Mid 2010 or Mid 2012 Mac Pro with macOS Mojave then you will need to upgrade your graphics card if you wish to run Mojave on your cheese-grater.Which leads to the obvious question that Karl and a number of others have asked on social media. Which card should I upgrade to?The reality is that definite information was hard to come by, there didn’t appear to be any Apple recommended Metal compatible graphics cards. In checking the more recently there has been a response from a level 8 responder, which states thatAfter much digging, there are only two official cards for a 5,1 Mac Pro that support Metal. That is, cards that were designed for these Macs.
Apr 04, 2017 If you use Apple software then AMD video cards are the better choice, if you use Adobe software then Nvidia cards are better. I believe the AMD R9 280x is the newest AMD card you can use in your Mac Pro at least for OS X at the moment, for Nvidia cards the GTX Titan X is still the top but most expensive model the next and more common choice is. It came with an ATI Radeon X1900 card, and I was able to flash one of my old AMD Radeon HD5870 cards for use in it. My model of Radeon HD5870 is the 'Built.
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