Still rocking the HD 4870 that came with my 4,1. Just bought an RX 460 to tide me over until Apple pulls a rabbit out of its hat next year.
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Poll: What video card is in your Mac Pro?
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Sorry to hear that. I use my 680 for three screens, all 1920 x 1080, so it's not working all that hard. Pretty light duty for a video card, and I don't do much video or 3D these days, just print work primarily. For that, the 680 is a good fit for me.
Always had AMD cards before (4870 to 5870 to 7950) due to official Mac editions being available at the time and the relative cost but recently I cross graded to a GTX680 (flashed PC card) so I could run F1 2016.
Not sure what happens next as I just read that Mafia 3 which Aspyr are porting to MacOS and I had planned to get will be AMD only...
Hopefully the new upgradable Mac Pro will make it easier to keep up to date with GPU progress with either brand and it would be so much easier if we can do without the unique EFI.
Not sure what happens next as I just read that Mafia 3 which Aspyr are porting to MacOS and I had planned to get will be AMD only...
Hopefully the new upgradable Mac Pro will make it easier to keep up to date with GPU progress with either brand and it would be so much easier if we can do without the unique EFI.
PCI slot 4 (x4): NVIDIA GeForce GT120 512MB for boot screens
PCI slot 1 (x16): Sapphire Nitro Radeon R9 380X 4GB
PCI slot 1 (x16): Sapphire Nitro Radeon R9 380X 4GB
Quite a range of GPUs at our facility. Our baseline Mac Pro 4,1 / 5,1 workstation configuration for general design and 1080p / proxy-based editing have GTX 960 2GB cards. Workstations for After Effects and C4D have GTX 970 4GB cards. Our color grading / 4K edit station has a GTX Titan X (Maxwell). The Titan X is the only Nvidia card with Mac ROMs, as I bought it from MVC when nobody else had a Titan X in stock and we needed it ASAP for a big project.
I also have a couple of Radeon 7950s and an R9 280X still floating around, all of which have Mac ROMs. Our nMP's have 2xD500's, but I need to set up Nvidia eGPUs for a few of those to handle preview generation before rendering in Octane.
I also have a couple of Radeon 7950s and an R9 280X still floating around, all of which have Mac ROMs. Our nMP's have 2xD500's, but I need to set up Nvidia eGPUs for a few of those to handle preview generation before rendering in Octane.
cMP 1,1 I think there is an nvidia in it.
cMP 3,1 with a GTX 680 flashed or mac, I just moved it with a only 43" 4K monitor,
I can't boot it now, I have to switch a cable or add a monitor, very irritating.
I use the 1,1 for the Epson printers and adobe.
I used the 3,1 with at home for adobe with a 23" IPS at home.
Now I moved it to the studio too.
I have faster Macbooks but I need the 32gb and 64gb ram + hardrives.
My external hard drive solutions just die faster and I have to put in the drives in the mac pro anyway.
Clients regulary lose files after 2 years or something.
My next investment will be a windows PC, sometimes people bring nMP to the studio.
I don't think of a hard switch, just buying less macs ... I or we use 6 macs in total.
cMP 3,1 with a GTX 680 flashed or mac, I just moved it with a only 43" 4K monitor,
I can't boot it now, I have to switch a cable or add a monitor, very irritating.
I use the 1,1 for the Epson printers and adobe.
I used the 3,1 with at home for adobe with a 23" IPS at home.
Now I moved it to the studio too.
I have faster Macbooks but I need the 32gb and 64gb ram + hardrives.
My external hard drive solutions just die faster and I have to put in the drives in the mac pro anyway.
Clients regulary lose files after 2 years or something.
My next investment will be a windows PC, sometimes people bring nMP to the studio.
I don't think of a hard switch, just buying less macs ... I or we use 6 macs in total.
msi gtx 770 4gb (pc card)
(also have old gtx 660 pc, gt120 mac & quadro 4000 mac)
not shore it's relay worth trying to sell the old ones
That GT 120 should sell for a decent price, they are always in high demand. That said, it's so small and requires no additional power cables that it's handy to keep around for yourself.
Tried to run my GTX 1060 with my GT 120 in at the same time. In macOS all works fine, however if I boot to Windows, no matter what I do, the GTX 1060 gives a picture for a brief moment and then the GT 120 takes over. After that there is no picture from the GTX 1060.
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That is what I am now doing. But since the poll offered multiple choices, including multiple GPUs, I though I'd share my observations.
