Don't believe me? Go to MacRumor's forums, bigger geeks there than here. I have a Vega 64 in my Mac Pro, Protools runs fine. Same chipsets, that there's more Shading Units, higher clock speeds, memory speeds etc. Search for Definitive Mac Pro Upgrade, or go to the Mac Rumors Boot Manager, there's a few software packages to assist with thi.Īs far as Protools "tested" its BS you can use any of the Polaris 20 GPUs, with Protools, like the RX 570/RX 580. You won't have the ability to Option-key boot but at least you can swap OSes. unlocking advanced display features in Mojave that are unavailable with the original 5770 or 5870 video cards.
That said there's a bunch of boot managers to take care of mutli-OS booting. Run macOS 10.14.x Mojave By adding the Radeon RX 580 to your Mac Pro, youll be adding Metal support and gain the ability to install the latest macOS 10.14.x Mojave operating system.
Otherwise if you want a metal compatible GPU, there's very few GPUs with EFI options. He's now working on Radeon RX series cards, my guess is he got ahold of a MacBook Polaris EFI ROM and was able to hack it. He's done this for years with the NVidia cards, as a Netkas forum member (if you've flashed a GPU in the past decade, then it probably came from there) then went his own way. Basically a guy living in LA named Dave who's a pricky-character hacks GPU ROMs, and thus for his hard work, keeps the BIOS to himself. MacVidCards is now flashing the Radeon 580s with custom ROMs, and I believe there's a european partner.
There are very few flashable to compatible EFI bootscreen cards for Mac and they're all very old. This means we are completely at the mercy of AMD and Apple continuing to provide future improved MPX modules. You can now use a different video port, if you don't want to use HDMI.
Download and install the latest AMD graphics drivers for Mac Pro. Connect your display to the HDMI port of the MPX Module, then restart your Mac. will bother to produce either a proprietary MPX version for Macs or even a standard and hence slower card for Macs. Shut down your Mac, then install the MPX module and remove the AMD card. These presumably do have Mac firmware but since the clearly preferred way of fitting a video card is a proprietary one it is extremely unlikely even AMD based cards from OEMs e.g. Apple ship (will ship) the Mac Pro 2019 with proprietary versions of AMD video cards which use a proprietary form factor called the 'MPX module'.As a result it is currently impossible to use an Nvidia card with a Mac Pro 2019 regardless of whether it has Mac firmware or not. Apple are still at war with Nvidia and not allowing Nvidia to provide approved drivers which would work with Mojave.Unfortunately for two reasons this is looking doubtful.
I had hoped that the launch of the Mac Pro 2019 model which has PCIe slots and can use in theory standard PCIe video cards might encourage video makers to consider making cards with Mac firmware. The makers of PCIe video cards stopped making versions with Mac firmware because no Mac since 2012 has been sold which could use such cards. 'newest' card that can be flashed with Mac firmware is the AMD Radeon R9 280x which is even older than the RX560. As far as I recall the highest model i.e.