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Here's the one I'm going with Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 580 8GBĪre there any places that have detailed directions on how to flash? Is it worth flashing just to get the boot screen? I've been told under normal use it is no longer necessary. I used to consider this utterly unimportant but SIP has made it a bigger irritation.

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Perhaps Apple will somehow throw folks a bone there but hey, 'hack-y' is pretty much where anyone still pushing along a cMP is at now yeah? An EFI card is also not needed for Recovery Mode (though you won't see any initial boot screen), although some level of native OS driver support is probably required.

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However I have successfully blind typed a password there, so while the experience is hack-y it can still work, and MPs seem likely to have long uptimes (or maybe most people just don't run FV on their cMPs, even there though I like the future ease of disposal). The biggest common sticky point there would probably be FileVault (stuff like TDM less likely to be used on an MP, though I know many people use rEFInd or similar to manage multi-boot and other features). Worth emphasizing (somebody running something right now with the most recent Mojave could correct me if it's changed) that unflashed cards, AMD or not, do not support any EFI visual functionality. Not amazing gaming cards or anything but the cMP is kind of past the mark there anyway, and that seems like about the level of investment it justifies at this point. 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.

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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.