MP 7,1 Any Chance AMD will make a driver for the 7900 video card to use in 2019 Mac Pro?

[Darren.h]

Would Love to Add a 2019 Intel Mac Pro to my collection to run Windows and play Video Games but the Amd 7900 Video card would keep the 2019 Mac Pro relevant for the next few years both in software and games horsepower when it comes to the Video side of things

Last repairable and upgradeable Mac Pro before you jump to the Mac Studio which makes you locked into the Apple Store for any repairs

 

[SecuritySteve]

If you're booting windows, you should be able to use the drivers from AMD for Windows on the Mac Pro.

 

[thomasjpr]

Zero chance of this happening. AMD can't do it on their own, because Apple has to ship the drivers with macOS. Very unlikely Apple would put that much engineering effort into supporting a new video card for an Intel Mac that it no longer sells. As already mentioned, you're probably just stuck with dual booting; though with that solution, now you get to keep two GPUs in your Mac: one supported by macOS, and a second for Windows.

 

[SecuritySteve]

Zero chance of this happening. AMD can't do it on their own, because Apple has to ship the drivers with macOS. Very unlikely Apple would put that much engineering effort into supporting a new video card for an Intel Mac that it no longer sells. As already mentioned, you're probably just stuck with dual booting; though with that solution, now you get to keep two GPUs in your Mac: one supported by macOS, and a second for Windows.

Well there's zero chance of the macOS drivers happening, but I believe the OP is just asking about Windows.

 

[Regulus67]

Well there's zero chance of the macOS drivers happening, but I believe the OP is just asking about Windows.

I agree with you.

Would Love to Add a 2019 Intel Mac Pro to my collection to run Windows and play Video Games ...

Should be no problem to use any AMD card that fits (not to long), running games in Windows.
There are people using nVidia RTX 4090 founders edition in this forum, as well.

 

[assoc]

though with that solution, now you get to keep two GPUs in your Mac: one supported by macOS, and a second for Windows.

Is it as easy as that, just changing which card the monitor is plugged into when you swap OSes?

 

[MisterAndrew]

Only chance of this happening if Apple enables AMD GPU support for the M4 Mac Pro and the drivers appear in an Intel version of macOS too.

 

[avro707]

Only chance of this happening if Apple enables AMD GPU support for the M4 Mac Pro and the drivers appear in an Intel version of macOS too.

But they will surely in that case make the drivers compatible with Apple Silicon only.