Apparently some had never checked/changed the switch position. The card's rom switch should be set to the EFI (not UEFI/PC) position for Mac use. ( *Important Tip for macOS High Sierra Upgrade*) See linked page for picture of the Radeon 7950 ROM Switch positions for EFI (Mac) and PC. Radeon 7950 ROM Switch Tip for Mac EFI setting

Article includes notes on mods and internal display/external display performance tests of the internal GPU vs the Thunderbolt PCIe expansion cased Nvidia GT 740 card in Cinebench and Games. (Sept 2015) Reader report on using a Thunderbolt PCIe expansion chassis and Nvidia GT740 card connected to a MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 1. (He ordered a Radeon RX 580 8GB for the Mac Pro 5,1.) Also used in his 2008 Mac Pro (3,1) running 10.12.6 now. (Jan 2018) CineBench R15 and GeekBench benchmark scores of (flashed) AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB card in a Mac Pro 5,1 (dual 3.46GHz) running macOS 10.12.6, using an LG 32UD59-B 4K 32in Display. Includes a summary list of the system's hardware build components. (July 2018) GeekBench Metal, OpenCL, Unigine Heaven and Valley benchmark scores with Nvidia web driver for macOS 10.13.6 used with an Nvidia GTX-1050 Ti card in a Hackintosh (6-Core i7 8700 CPU at 3.2GHz). Metal, OpenCL, and Unigine Benchmarks with macOS 10.13.6 & Nvidia GTX-1050 Ti in Hackintosh However some owners have used Thunderbolt cased GPUs for years with pre-Thunderbolt 3 Macs, using modified drivers.) (Does not include the late 2013 Mac Pro, which has Thunderbolt 2 ports. Article includes a list of natively supported ThunderBolt 3 chassis models, graphics cards and supported Macs. (Oct 2022) Apple support article on using an eGPU with Intel CPU Macs in macOS 10.13.4 and later. ThunderBolt Enclosures and Graphics Cards (System Info GPU report shows it supports Apple Metal/Metal 2.)įYI: This card also supported as an eGPU when used with a supported Mac & eGPU chassis. Card has 2 DisplayPort 1.4, 2 HDMI 2.0b, 1 DVI-D ports. (Including Mojave upgrades with only the RX 580 card installed.) Native RX 580 driver support in macOS 10.12.6 & later including macOS 10.14 Mojave.

Reports on stock (not flashed) Sapphire Pulse and Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 8GB in Mac Pros running macOS 10.14.x, 10.13.x and 10.12.6.

(With Mojave Installs on Mac Pro 5,1 with Radeon RX580 and Mojave supported graphics cards.) ( There's a separate page of Mac Nvidia Driver Downloads.) Graphics Card, Video and Benchmark Related = Link Category List - Click to jump to that Topic Section =ĮGPUs & Graphics Card Articles | Displays/Monitor/TV Related | USB DisplayLinkĪpple TV Related | Home Theater, AVRs & Media | (older model) Card Coolers (For driver updates, see our Mac Nvidia Drivers Download page) Mac Video Cards, Benchmarks & Display Related Articles

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