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The MacRumors forum has a large community of classic Mac Pro enthusiasts who keep upgrading their machines. The best luck lately is with Nvidia cards and using their web drivers. Certain ones will work on a mac, with the caveats already mentioned. You can buy stock PC graphics cards and not mod them. If I were in the market for a new desktop, the bespoke stuff offered by people like Create Pro blows Apple's current offering out of the water, both on price and on value. The expandability of the old Mac Pro is incredible to be honest. On a semi-related note, I am still mystified by the new Mac Pro. A card flashed with a Mac BIOS will be able to work at PCIe 2.0 speeds, supporting twice the data rate.Ĭards with our Mac BIOS are able to run their full monitor arrangement (unless specifically noted) and make use of the most up to date technologies, including 4K monitor support and CUDA, OpenCL and OpenGL support. When installed in a Mac Pro a stock PC GPU will only be able to utilize the outdated PCIe 1.0 format.
This is very helpful for users who regularly need to switch boot drives and operating systems. Here are a few of the benefits:Īpple releases very few GPU options and they are often out of date compared to what is available for a PC.Ī Mac BIOS enables you to see the gray boot screen at startup (where you see the Apple logo and hear the iconic boot chime).
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Some people may question why they should install a card flashed with a Mac BIOS as opposed to an official Apple released card or a stock PC graphics card (GPU).
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