I upgraded my video card to a AMD Radeon HD 7970 3 GB. I use two monitors, one a 42 inch and the other a 22 inch. I'm running opencore big sur on a Mac Pro 5.1 Needham. The video card keep running hot, fans loud and then it quits. I'm upgrading to AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB HBM Graphics Card...
I'm having slow export speeds. It seems that FCPX is not utilizing GPU.
BruceX export takes ~43sec. This is how much Vega 64 is used (see attached screens).
The same is with Compressor. And it doesn't matter if it's transcoding from Prores to Prores or h264.
Tests were run on OWC Accelsior...