The following articles regarding trying to use video cards as eGPU cards may be of help. A number of SATA, Ethernet, and FDDI PCIe cards have been updated with firmware to support this, however no Mac compatible video cards have so far. The main issue is that with Thunderbolt the card has the potential for being 'unplugged' while the computer is running, whereas this is not realistically possible when fitted inside a computer in a normal PCIe slot. The problem here is that for PCIe cards of any type to be officially rated as compatible with being connected via a Thunderbolt PCIe expansion box, they need firmware which supports this approach. Now taking your post literally, you could be asking for recommendation for a PCIe video card that works both in a MacPro5,1 and also would work in an external Thunderbolt connected box as I described above.

This will not help you with regards to your MacPro5,1 and has limited help currently for even Thunderbolt equipped Macs. (It was actually launched in 2013.) This is often referred to as an 'eGPU' as in external GPU. It is possible in theory to fit a standard PCIe video card in a PCIe expansion box and connect that expansion box via Thunderbolt to a computer which of course supports Thunderbolt, e.g. Under Graphics/Displays, if 'Supported' is listed next to the Metal entry, the graphics card will work with macOS Mojave.Īccording to Apple, once a Metal-capable graphics card has been installed in a 2010 or 2012 Mac Pro, macOS Mojave can be downloaded and installed after turning off FileVault.As Illaass said you cannot add Thunderbolt to a classic Mac Pro i.e. You can check to see if your graphics card is compatible by holding down option while selecting Apple logo to access System Information.

MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 128-bit 4GB GDDR5Īpple also lists other AMD graphics cards that 'might' be compatible with macOS Mojave:.

Apple's new macOS Mojave update is not compatible with mid-2010 and mid-2012 Mac Pros with stock GPUs, but it is supported on 20 Mac Pro models that have been upgraded with graphics cards that support Metal.Īpple today shared a new support document that provides a list of graphics cards that are Metal-capable, which will be useful for 20 Mac Pro owners who want to purchase a new graphics card to upgrade to macOS Mojave.Īccording to Apple, the following graphics cards are known to be Metal-capable and compatible with macOS Mojave on the mid-2010 and mid-2012 Mac Pro models:

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