Hey when you said sleep does not work, are you talking about Mac OS explicitly? Are you fine with Windows Boot Camp?
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MP 7,1 Nvidia’s RTX 3090/ 4090/ A6000/ 6000 Ada in a Mac Pro (2019)
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Hey when you said sleep does not work, are you talking about Mac OS explicitly? Are you fine with Windows Boot Camp?
So now I sold it but I also had both GTX1080 and my current W5700X installed/operational side by side on Windows 10 Boot Camp. It looks like even though I connect my monitor to either one of the graphic cards, I can use the in-game option (my example was World of Warcraft) and choose a specific graphics card I wanted to run the game off of (e.g. monitors plugged into W5700X, but the game is using GTX1080). This went the same with Davinci Resolve where I was able to utilize both graphic cards for rendering too.
So I'm sure this will apply the same with the RTX series, and of course only in Windows.
Hi there, I just got myself a 3090 FE as well. On step 4 when you say Bend the Fan Bezel Plastic with your hands dont use to much force it will bent the 3mm needed just so yo can Plug the GPU in its PCI slot, are you saying I need to bend the Mac Pro portion of the plastic or RTX portion? I assume it's the former.
If so, would it damage the Mac Pro plastic? Is there any replacement part just for that where it's detachable? I would sacrifice for that, but if the plastic is unibody to the Mac Pro enclosure, I am not so sure! But I just can't get a hold of 3080 haha.
For 7,1 don't you longer need an Apple OEM GPU installed anymore for the boot screen since it's handled by the chip inside Mac Pro anyway?
Is the fan bracket replaceable though? As long as just that part is replaceable I'm down to bend it and buy just that piece again. Can you please confirm? Thanks.
I have RTX's in slots 1 and 3, with a old WX5100 in slot 6. The Mac Pro seems to really want the primary display GPU to be in slot 1. I have the RTX in slot 1 connected to my monitor via HDMI and the AMD GPU (WX5100) connected via DP. If I set the input on my monitor to DP during bootup/power on it's blank and only comes on for the login/password screen. If you leave it to HDMI (ie, the RTX), you get the Apple logo and progress bar which gets stuck at which point you can switch it to DP.
I have to remember to leave it on DP every time I switch to Bootcamp, since I disabled the AMD GPU in windows device manager.
Interesting and it can be possible as I've never moved my stock GPU (which is W5700X and I assume you also meant W5700X?) from the original slot, as Slot 3 already has the same 16x speed. My plan was to just put the RTX3090 on Slot 3, and use both GPU in Windows 10 Boot Camp (which was possible when I had GTX1080 side by side), and use W5700X on Mac OS.
No, I meant WX5100. It's a single slot, low power (no PCIe cables needed!) GPU that is powerful enough for my MacOS needs (youtube).
Yes, both slots 1&3 are full 16x directly connected to the CPU (I believe), which is why I put my RTX's there, if I can ever get linux installed on this thing...
Yes & No. My main GPU is an Aorus RX5700XT. When I was running it with my old monitor with a DP to DP connection, I had a boot screen. When I changed to the LG/Apple UltraFine display with the TB (USB-C) input and ran the Display from the DP connector with a bidirectional cable - No boot screen. I then changed to a DP,USB cable, and still no boot screen.
Lou
Gotcha. I thought you meant one of those stock GPU's sold by Apple.
Interesting. Yeah like I said above I never detached Apple OEM GPU from my 7,1 so that's probably why I was always seeing the boot screen.
You had a thread started in July 2019 at https://egpu.io/forums/thunderbolt-linux-setup/linux-on-recent-macs/
For Ubuntu and the Mac mini 2018, installing using
sudo ubiquity -b seemed to work (installs without grub which wants to mess with nvram boot variables) - then use rEFInd to boot.But I guess your problems with the Mac Pro 2019 are different.
Someone on here reported that refind didn’t work on the 7,1. Ubiquity-b was necessary on Macs (ie MacBooks) because the only option to install Linux on an internal drive was the one controlled by the T2. In the 2019 7,1 we could pick any ssd we wanted, except grub still seems to want to mess around with the T2 ssd despite telling the installer not to do that.
As an aside, I’m now having a different problem installing Linux. I updated the thread regarding booting without the T2 SSD.
First, thanks to joevt, aagribeiro, frankiee, CatoTheElder, DrEGPU, LEOMODE and more users of this thread.
I have been reading all your comments, very good and interesting.
I have the 580X and the new ASUS RTX3090, but 1 week after trying everything you have indicated, I still can't use the 3090 on macos, Catalina or Big Sur. The only way is to boot the system, select the unit with windows and perfect, but I have not achieved anything by following your steps, the 3090 continues without being able to use it in macos. Is there any user who has a new idea that can help us who have this problem.
I have it installed in PCI 4, before in 3, nothing changes, it is a shame not to be able to enjoy it. Thank you very much and you are all great.
I start in recovery mode csrutil disable
reboot and start normally and now, all your ideas,....
No chance with (from frankiee)
First, copy the kext to "/Library/Extensions", then issue the following terminal commands:
next
udo chmod -R 755 /Library/Extensions/FakeNvidia.kext
sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/Extensions/FakeNvidia.kext
sudo touch /Library/Extensions
sudo kextcache -update-volume /
or this method (joevt and your kektUil.sh and fakenvidia.kekt)
source ~/Downloads/KextUtil.sh
installkext FakeNvidia.kext
rebuildkextcache
......
Finally
and the kekt its not loaded and finally sad...and thanks for all your effort.
And don't forget to boot into recovery mode and csrutil enable
And now i have 580 connected by hdmi (for macOS) and the 3090 by DP (for windows).
My monitor is the BenQ EW3270U, just in the case..
There are many posts to put in just one but I have followed everything you have explained for those of us who have this problem. Sorry if I do not explain myself well at all but I hope you understand what happens to me that is the same as many of this thread, Any more ideas? Please.
You are very big
I have been reading all your comments, very good and interesting.
I have the 580X and the new ASUS RTX3090, but 1 week after trying everything you have indicated, I still can't use the 3090 on macos, Catalina or Big Sur. The only way is to boot the system, select the unit with windows and perfect, but I have not achieved anything by following your steps, the 3090 continues without being able to use it in macos. Is there any user who has a new idea that can help us who have this problem.
I have it installed in PCI 4, before in 3, nothing changes, it is a shame not to be able to enjoy it. Thank you very much and you are all great.
I start in recovery mode csrutil disable
reboot and start normally and now, all your ideas,....
No chance with (from frankiee)
First, copy the kext to "/Library/Extensions", then issue the following terminal commands:
next
udo chmod -R 755 /Library/Extensions/FakeNvidia.kext
sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/Extensions/FakeNvidia.kext
sudo touch /Library/Extensions
sudo kextcache -update-volume /
or this method (joevt and your kektUil.sh and fakenvidia.kekt)
source ~/Downloads/KextUtil.sh
installkext FakeNvidia.kext
rebuildkextcache
......
Finally
and the kekt its not loaded and finally sad...and thanks for all your effort.
And don't forget to boot into recovery mode and csrutil enable
And now i have 580 connected by hdmi (for macOS) and the 3090 by DP (for windows).
My monitor is the BenQ EW3270U, just in the case..
There are many posts to put in just one but I have followed everything you have explained for those of us who have this problem. Sorry if I do not explain myself well at all but I hope you understand what happens to me that is the same as many of this thread, Any more ideas? Please.
You are very big
FakeNvidia.kext was not created to make Nvidia work. It was created so that sleep/wake doesn't cause a kernel panic while an Nvidia card is installed.
I finally opened up and installed RTX3090 Founders Edition on my Mac Pro 7,1. It was hard to put it in as you do need to push the backside's plastic bracket where the 3 fans are. Once it's pushed then you also need to align your card properly beforehand so the slot can be fit in as the GPU slides down. Due to the bracket flexing a little, you will not be able to screw either the back cover or the front cover. I just left them as-is but it works fine.
Overall, I haven't played it on Mac OS yet but at least on Boot Camp Windows 10 it works flawlessly and sleeps perfectly fine (I bought a Gigabyte GTX1050Ti before and when I put it to sleep on Windows 10 the fan will blow furiously).
Just FYI, if you're worried about the plastic fan bracket, it is a one-piece item and that also has some sort of circuitry on 3 sides, meaning it's connected to Mac Pro without wires (just like other Mac Pro parts). Unfortunately, you cannot buy just that part yet so you would probably need to wait until 3rd party starts selling official Mac Pro parts.
For Geekbench 5, the score on OpenCL Compute was about 3 times higher than W5700X and 4 times higher than GTX1080 FE that I used to own.
I still have both installed, and connected 1 display to Nvidia whilst other 2 displays are connected to W5700X (otherwise you cannot turn on Nvidia Control Panel). The games work flawlessly (I have 4k 144hz triple monitors) and on Davinci Resolve you can choose both GPU's on OpenCL mode.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Overall, I haven't played it on Mac OS yet but at least on Boot Camp Windows 10 it works flawlessly and sleeps perfectly fine (I bought a Gigabyte GTX1050Ti before and when I put it to sleep on Windows 10 the fan will blow furiously).
Just FYI, if you're worried about the plastic fan bracket, it is a one-piece item and that also has some sort of circuitry on 3 sides, meaning it's connected to Mac Pro without wires (just like other Mac Pro parts). Unfortunately, you cannot buy just that part yet so you would probably need to wait until 3rd party starts selling official Mac Pro parts.
For Geekbench 5, the score on OpenCL Compute was about 3 times higher than W5700X and 4 times higher than GTX1080 FE that I used to own.
I still have both installed, and connected 1 display to Nvidia whilst other 2 displays are connected to W5700X (otherwise you cannot turn on Nvidia Control Panel). The games work flawlessly (I have 4k 144hz triple monitors) and on Davinci Resolve you can choose both GPU's on OpenCL mode.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
There is no driver for any Nvidia GPU past High Sierra. And as long as the Apple/Nvidia feud continues there never will be.
Lou
if plug your monitor to the AMD video output you will get only the OpenCL renderer within DaVinci, you will be able to use both gpus, AMD+Nvidia. If you plug your monitor to the RTX3090 output you will able to select CUDA. Resolve runs 100X faster with the Cuda kernel.
What expansion chasis is needed for the
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity 24GB GDDR6X 384-bit 19.5 Gbps PCIE 4.0 Gaming Graphics Card, IceStorm 2.0 Advanced Cooling, SPECTRA 2.0 RGB Lighting, ZT-A30900D-10P?
Oh, I didn't know Cuda was that superior in Davinci. Thanks for that information. So what you're saying is, RTX3090 alone with using Cuda will still be faster (100 times as you metaphorically say) than using RTX3090+W5700X using OpenCL correct?
Has people figured out a solution for the wake/sleep kernal panic issue with Nvidia cards yet? Could someone post a guide here? Thanks
Hmm sorry to hear that if it's 3080 or 3090 you're having an issue with Mac Pro 7,1. I haven't had any kernal panic issue yet. Mine is Founders Edition 3090.