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So what’s the cheapest graphics card for Mojave on a 5,1?

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lixe

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bsbeamer said:
Believe you mean RX 580 and not an RX 850... correct?

As stated above, the RX 580 was officially made available by Apple under the eGPU Developer Kit and support for that card will continue for some time. It is NOT being sold by Apple currently.
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Yes of course I’ve meant the RX 580.

TheStork said:
I'm using a Sapphire RX 580 Pulse 8GB card in MyHero II hackintosh w/o any problems.
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So you wouldn’t care about any „maybe problems“ reagarding Mojave right now?
 
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lixe said:
Are the current Nvidia cards (1050ti,1060,1070,1080) metal capable and should therefore work with mojave? Of course the boot screen will probably be black...
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I think it's too early to know for sure. I'm hoping that is the cases but...
 
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I can 100% say the GTX 1080 (FE and Ti) are ID'd as Metal Supported by the OS.

My GTX 1080 FE in authentic 5,1 is NOT an EFI card and states in Hardware > Graphics/Displays > Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v3

I've used Metal as an Adobe renderer with this GTX 1080 FE in the past. Much prefer CUDA or OpenCL (both have better performance), but Metal does work in Adobe video applications (currently on CC 2018).
 
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These were the lowest powered GPU'S supporting Metal:
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 from Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M (aka: GK107 N13P-LP) from iMac (21-inch, Late 2012)
(edit removed nvs-510 due to high cost) The GT640/740, based on GK107, should be enough power and costs $70 on ebay. No boot screen. Drivers are built into macOS.

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lixe said:
I’ve heard of that and the RX 580 seems to work pretty well. I’m currently building a hackintosh (bad timing maybe) and already ordered an RX 580 (which I could of course still return). In case they will require an EFI GPU when Mojave gets out, I can only hope that there will be a workaround. My alternative would be a cheaper Nvidia card (1050ti), which won’t run as smooth I guess, and then just wait and see.
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You better stick to the RX580. If that doesn't work, the 1050Ti will only even worse. The high end Nvidia card works fine with the web driver. But low end cards are totally another store. No boot, not loaded, display error, all sorts of issues reported.

MisterAndrew said:
I decided to get a Sapphire HD 7950 reference I’ll flash as Mac edition to replace my HD 5870. While the 5870 could still be used for firmware updates, the 7950 will make a better backup card for Mojave. I found one for $150 that looks nice and has the original box etc. I think that’s pretty good.
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Same hardware.
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I just sold my Sapphire HD7950 Mac Edition card less than a week ago. Very good price indeed. enough for me to "create" 2-3 Mac EFI R9 280X :D

handheldgames said:
These were the lowest powered GPU'S supporting Metal:
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 from Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M (aka: GK107 N13P-LP) from iMac (21-inch, Late 2012)
The NVS-510 may be the physically smallest card to support metal. 35W TDP, 2GB memory, 192 CUDA cores and a GK107 Kepler GPU. No boot screen. Drivers are built into macOS. Looking at ebay, too expensive.



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This can easily be the best GT120 replacement (if MVC sell flashed version)
 
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handheldgames said:
These were the lowest powered GPU'S supporting Metal:
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 from Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
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Wait, so you're saying the stock card from the 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro is Metal capable?

How does that square with this verbiage from their release notes?

Supported Configurations macOS 10.14 supports: • MacBook (Early 2015 or newer) • MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or newer) • MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or newer) • Mac mini (Late 2012 or newer) • iMac (Late 2012 or newer) • iMac Pro (2017) • Mac Pro (Late 2013, plus mid 2010 and mid 2012 models with recommended Metalcapable GPU) *Support for 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models will be available in an upcoming beta
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If the stock card is metal-capable then why would they even add that proviso?
 
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handheldgames said:
These were the lowest powered GPU'S supporting Metal:
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770 from Mac Pro (Mid 2012)
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M (aka: GK107 N13P-LP) from iMac (21-inch, Late 2012)
(edit removed nvs-510 due to high cost) The GT640/740, based on GK107, should be enough power and costs $70 on ebay. No boot screen. Drivers are built into macOS.
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are you sure the 5770 supports metal? I thought that both it and the 5870 didn't support metal, thus the search for a better card.
 
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Partridge said:
are you sure the 5770 supports metal? I thought that both it and the 5870 didn't support metal, thus the search for a better card.
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I don't really want to do it at the moment since I'm busy, but if we don't get a definitive answer soon, I'll install my Genuine Apple/AMD HD 5870 and see what HS reports in regards to metal if that helps the knowledge base any.
 
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crjackson2134 said:
I don't really want to do it at the moment since I'm busy, but if we don't get a definitive answer soon, I'll install my Genuine Apple/AMD HD 5870 and see what HS reports in regards to metal if that helps the knowledge base any.
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That would be great. Thanks.
 
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Can someone confirm that the Radeon HD 7950 3GB (Sapphire for example) supports Metal(2) and will hopefully also work in Mojave? Or is there a list which GPUs support Metal or are supposed to work in Mojave? Thought I've stumbled upon such a list today, but can't find it anymore ^^
 
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lixe said:
Can someone confirm that the Radeon HD 7950 3GB (Sapphire for example) supports Metal(2) and will hopefully also work in Mojave? Or is there a list which GPUs support Metal or are supposed to work in Mojave? Thought I've stumbled upon such a list today, but can't find it anymore ^^
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99.999% certain that card will work... ;)

The cards in the nMP are all 7xxx AFAIK, and they are supported...
 
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The Spirit said:
what is the cheapest gpu to use within a 5.1 with supports the boot screen?
Thanks
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Read this thread. Also read this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...out-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/

You're looking at mostly old and/or used cards for "cheap" GPUs. The market is not exactly saturated with authentic Mac options. If you need boot screens (EFI), then the EVGA NVIDIA GTX 680 for Mac 2GB is the newest official option. There are others, but many are not authentically flashed.

Other cards work and support METAL, but they are not official.
 
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bsbeamer said:
Read this thread. Also read this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...out-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/

You're looking at mostly old and/or used cards for "cheap" GPUs. The market is not exactly saturated with authentic Mac options. If you need boot screens (EFI), then the EVGA NVIDIA GTX 680 for Mac 2GB is the newest official option. There are others, but many are not authentically flashed.

Other cards work and support METAL, but they are not official.
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what would be a "support METAL, but they are not official" card?
Thanks
 
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