They should all be low power, requiring either no cable at all or at most a single 6 pin which the cMP can supply itself. A Sapphire Pulse RX 560 is available for like $140, an MSI probably a bit less (like $100-130). Easiest just to go for something lower power, but there are various solutions available too with varying degrees of elbow grease and elegance.Īt the lower-end I'd honestly just look at something 560 based and call it a day. It's not the MP PDU that's the issue but the rails can be. Radeon RX 460, 465, 470, 480, 550, 560, 570, 580, & Pro 580 at least all have device IDs in Mojave.īe careful of power usage in higher end cards, the upper tier of AMD's last few gens have been a lot thirstier then Nvidia's equivalents. Sapphire cards, particularly the Pulse ones, seem to be the best overall, but Apple also mentions MSI and I've seen other reports they could be fine. They should also be available more cheaply of course since they're older. Polaris compromises the Radeon 400 and 500 series cards, Vega was the successor. I've heard people saying that Vega works to some extent and maybe that'll be even better in 10.14 down the road, but it's probably iffier, and if there are issues Apple may feel less motivated about fixing them. I would think a lot of pilgrims went bust on cryptocurrency mining and flooded the market with used GPUs.Īs far as I know, Apple has only specifically and officially recommended Polaris GPUs in cMPs ( Mojava Beta FAQ too). The issue remains can I get away with spending only a couple of hundred bucks for a GPU. (OSX has built in driver support for AMD Radeon.)

So am I better with Nvidia or AMD? Issue of future of future driver support among other things. One of the reviews at OWC claims the Radeon Sapphire is supported on Mojave.

The Sapphire should work but I'm not 100% sure enough to spend almost 500 bucks for a GPU for an 8 year old computerĮdit: MacVid claims all their video cards support Mojave. I'm a little nervous about flashing, but this place will flash video cards so the bootscreen support shouldn't be the dealkiller for a stock PC video card. I've heard the AMD Radeon cards can be less of a hassle than Nividia. I don't need the top of the line card but preferably the cheapest one. I need a recommendation for a video card for a MacPro5,1 that supports Metal for the new Mojave OSX and also supports 4k.

Mac pro metal video card