The requirements are preliminary, and that MacOS has not been publicly released. It may be a mistake to invest money now for requirements that could change before its official release.
- The new documentation from Apple explains which graphics cards are compatible with macOS 10.14 Mojave thanks to their support of Apple’s 3D API (known as Metal). Mac Pros released between 2010.
- SAPPHIRE Radeon PULSE RX 580 8GB GDDR5. SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition. NVIDIA Quadro K5000 for Mac. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition. Some other third-party graphics cards. based on the following AMD GPU families might also be compatible with macOS Mojave on Mac Pro (Mid 2010) and Mac Pro (Mid 2012): AMD Radeon RX 560. AMD Radeon RX 570.
- Item 9 AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB Apple Mac Pro Catalina Metal 680 Nvidia GTX GPU 8 - AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB Apple Mac Pro Catalina Metal 680 Nvidia GTX GPU. About this item. Compatible Port/Slot. PCI Express x16.
- We compare the GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition against the Radeon HD 7950 across a wide set of games and benchmarks to help you choose which you should get.
On macOS, Metal supports Intel HD and Iris Graphics from the HD 4000 series or newer, AMD GCN-based GPUs, and Nvidia Kepler-based GPUs or newer.
AMD links:
GCN is fabricated in 28 nm and 14 nm graphics chips, available on selected models in the
AMD Tahiti, 800 MHz, 1792 Cores, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 3072 MB GDDR5, 1250 MHz, 384 bit.
Radeon HD 7000,
HD 8000,
200,
300,
400and
500 series
of AMD Radeon graphics cards. GCN is also used in the graphics portion of
AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APU), such as in the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One APUs.
NVIDIA links:
Kepler was Nvidia's first microarchitecture to focus on energy efficiency. Most
GeForce 600 series,
most GeForce 700 series, and
some GeForce 800M series GPUs were based on Kepler, all manufactured in 28 nm. Kepler also found use in the
Amd Sapphire Hd 9750 For Mac Mojave
GK20A,
Amd Sapphire Hd 9750 For Mac Pro
the GPU component of the Tegra K1SoC, as well as in the
Quadro Kxxx series, the
Quadro NVS 510, and
Nvidia Tesla computing modules.
Kepler was followed by the Maxwellmicroarchitecture and used alongside Maxwell in the
GeForce 700 series and
GeForce 800M series.
from:
and links therein to other wikipedia pages
Jun 13, 2018 7:19 AM
Apple's pro-sumer Mac Pro desktop PC doesn't receive the attention-grabbing headlines of the consumer-focussed iPads and MacBooks but is a solid product nonetheless. Apple states that it can be equipped with '12 cores of processing power' and features 'high-performance Radeon graphics'. This £2,000 machine's high-performance graphics are, in fact, a Radeon HD 5770, though the user can upgrade to a Radeon HD 5870 or dual HD 5770s at the time of purchase.
It's clear that the Mac Pro is very much behind the times as far as graphics are concerned. Sapphire spies a very large - and, more to the point, profitable - gap in the market and is bringing a Radeon upgrade for existing and potential Mac Pro owners.
The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Mac card uses the same architecture as found on the regular version released over a year ago. This means it has 1,792 shaders clocked in at 800MHz and a 3GB frame-buffer running at an effective 5,000MHz. It's worth noting that the Mac Edition doesn't have the PowerTune with Boost technology available on newer models of the PC card. Outputs include two mini-DisplayPorts and a dual-link DVI.
You may be wondering why a regular card cannot be used inside a Mac Pro. The answer is that the Mac card requires a different, Apple-approved BIOS. Sapphire uses the dual-BIOS functionality present in these cards to program one with an Apple BIOS and the other with Windows. Sapphire supports Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) and later.
'Exclusive to SAPPHIRE, the HD 7950 Mac Edition is based on AMD’s latest Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. This highly acclaimed architecture delivers a significant graphics performance boost for Mac Pro users in a wide range of applications including gaming, audio or video editing and content creation. For example, gaming frame rates are increased by over 200%, general benchmark performance increased by around 30% and graphics intensive benchmarks increased by as much as 300% compared with the NV 8800GT commonly used in these machines,' Sapphire said in a press statement.
And the Apple tax? The card is set to be made available for $479, or 60 per cent pricier than a PC-only card... and, for what it's worth, that's without any of the games provided by AMD's Never Settle bundle.
Expensive though it is, this appears to be the simplest method of upgrading the graphics power on any post-2010 Mac Pro computer that features a x16 PCIe slot.
Interestingly, and potentially throwing a small spanner in the Sapphire works, the current Mac Pro is no longer for sale in Europe from March 1, 2013. Signs are that a newer, faster (better graphics) version is coming out in the spring. Stay tuned.