I found the installation of the card was smooth and just as the YouTube link above. A photo of the cable I used is shown below. The power requirements for the new MSI graphics card are much more significant when compared with the original. It is a good thing that I did because I didn’t realise that I would need a new power cable – you will need a dual mini 6pin to 8pin cable to install and power the card. I found a YouTube video which included instructions on how to upgrade/ replace the graphics card in the machine. At the time of writing this was available from Amazon for around £180. On this basis I decided to try a MSI card the Radeon RX580 ‘Armor’. however, the unsupported article suggested that the ‘AMD Radeon RX 580’ family of graphics cards could potentially work despite not officially being supported. MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 128-bit 4GB GDRR5.However, there is an older (unsupported) Apple Support Article that gives a wider range of potentials as listed below: I could not find these two cards available for sale in the UK as the cards are getting quite old now. This main page suggest that only two cards are compatible: This Apple Support Article gives details. but that is just a plain guess.Īpple have published an article about which graphics cards are compatible with the MacPro. It could be a potential security issue with the Intel chips that Intel can’t (won’t?) fix. Unfortunately Apple have removed support for Mac Pro 5,1 in the latest operating system ‘Catalina’ there are a couple of potential reasons but I don’t believe they have published an official reason why. The day-to-day operation using High Sierra was very, very good and much faster than my current Mac Pro laptop.Īfter using the computer for a while I thought it would be good to investigate opportunities to upgrade to ‘Mojave’. The process of installing High Sierra and completing the updates to get the latest patches was very smooth and I experienced no issues. Apple Bootable Installer – Apple Support. I downloaded a version of High Sierra and created a bootable USB stick using this tutorial. The HD was clean and ready for a fresh installation of Mac OS. The unit had a 3.2 Xeon with 16gb of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 (1024mb). It is a Mac Pro 5,1 or designation A1289. The image below shows the version of the Mac Pro I was given. There are a lot of tutorials on the internet to show how this is achieved but I wanted to share some thoughts on how the process went.

After a long time looking at tutorials on the internet I decided to get a new ‘metal’ enabled graphics card to update the OS X to ‘Mojave’ from ‘High Sierra’. I have recently been gifted an old Mac Pro 5,1 from around 2010.

Mac pro 5.1 metal gpu