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Mac Pro 5.1 Mojave - what GPU cards work?
Hi. I'm looking to upgrade my Mac Pro 5.1 to Mojave with PT Ultimate 2019.6 and HDX card/HD interfaces to see if performance improves over High Sierra. I note that Avid qualify just ONE graphics card - the MSI RX560 (of which there seem to be several versions available - very confusing).
Has anyone tried this yet? Is it worth doing? EXACTLY which variant of GPU card are you using? Do you still get the grey 'boot' screen at startup or nothing until the 'login' screen? Is the latest version of Mojave OK? I'm looking at this card currently on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0728B1M...v_ov_lig_dp_it My Mac Pro was a 4.1 machine with CPU upgrade (12 cores) flashed to 5.1 spec, 48Gb memory, and Samsung 850 SSD (APFS) boot drive (sorry - haven't updated system details below yet). Thanks in advance, Martin.
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Martin Nichols PT Ultimate 2023.9, Mac Pro 12-core 7.1, 224Gb RAM, Monterey 12.6.8 or Ventura 13.6.1, HDX card with Avid HD interfaces. |
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Re: Mac Pro 5.1 Mojave - what GPU cards work?
I'm using a flashed Radeon 7950 in my MP 4.1->5.1 (6-core 3.46), running two 20" Cinema Displays, with Mojave 10.14.5 and PT 2019.5. I still get boot screen and other than app/finder windows sometimes moving from one display to the other on restart it works perfectly.
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Re: Mac Pro 5.1 Mojave - what GPU cards work?
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But Apple has made this statement of Mojave capable GUP's (for Mid 2010 and 2012 I am guessing an upgraded 4.1 will work I am going to get the Sapphire Pulse RX 580 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208898
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Re: Mac Pro 5.1 Mojave - what GPU cards work?
Flashed for Mac RX 580s are now being sold at macvidcards.com for 5,1 macs or you can have them flash one for you and run on internal power or if you want a lot more power you can install a VII
https://barefeats.com/macs-and-radeon-vii.html But will need to give it extra power and currently no boot screen /flashing but that may change in the future.
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Mac Pro 5,1 12 core 3.46ghz OS X 12.6.1 Opencore 0.8.6 Pro Tools Ultimate 2022.10 Mac Pro 2009 upgraded to 5,1 12 core 3.46ghz GPU RX6800XT, Samsung 970 EVO Plus pcie boot drive, Titan Ridge flashed for Mac. Midas M32r console. iPad Pro with Avid Control |
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Re: Mac Pro 5.1 Mojave - what GPU cards work?
Thanks for the replies so far - encouraging.
By Avid 'qualified' I was referring to the warning on the Pro Tools 2018 System Requirements page relating to the Mac Pro, specifically: "Notes: (*) MSI Radeon RX560 required when using macOS Mojave. Other graphics cards have been shown to cause errors in Pro Tools." So I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone's with experience using this card please, good or bad. Interesting that Apple do not say anything about a Mac version this card on their recommended GPUs for Mojave, which they do for others, hence the question about the boot screen. Main reason for wanting to try Mojave is to see if it gets around the intermittent (usually one-off) -9093 error on playback/record, currently being investigated by Avid support.
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Martin Nichols PT Ultimate 2023.9, Mac Pro 12-core 7.1, 224Gb RAM, Monterey 12.6.8 or Ventura 13.6.1, HDX card with Avid HD interfaces. |
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Re: Mac Pro 5.1 Mojave - what GPU cards work?
Mojave and 2019.5 are working wery well together.. just be sure your hardware is capable of running Mojave and you should be fine. This "metal" thing shouldn't be a problem for recent macs but good to do the research before upgrading
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Re: Mac Pro 5.1 Mojave - what GPU cards work?
Thanks Janne. May I ask if you're an a MacPro 5.1, and if so which GPU you're using?
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Martin Nichols PT Ultimate 2023.9, Mac Pro 12-core 7.1, 224Gb RAM, Monterey 12.6.8 or Ventura 13.6.1, HDX card with Avid HD interfaces. |
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offthewallproductions Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 Ghz 12 core, Open Core 0.9.8, Radeon RX580 GPU, GC-TITAN RIDGE TB3 PCIe card, M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive on PCIe card, 48GB RAM, macOS 12.7.4 Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3.1/HD Driver 2023.3 HDX, UA Octo PCIe card in external TB3 chassis, MTRX Studio I/O, C|24 control surface. Genelec 1031AP/7070A 5.1 monitoring. |
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