Mac pro metal gpu9/15/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a shame you can’t really push these cards any further. While I was fully aware of the limits of the NVidia web drivers last year (High Sierra was the end of the line), these 980/980Ti cards and their successors – the 10Ti are great options for the Mac Pro 5,1 running High Sierra with the NVidia Web Drivers. As fate would have it, I had been quite satisfied with the performance I was getting from the GTX 980Ti in my 2,1 last year and got another. This 5,1 is a very powerful machine and has been an incredible pleasure to own so far (grabbed for under $1000 shipped on eBay last year). ![]() The GPU madness this year is a bit of a different story, but at the end of the day comes down to the same conclusion for my use case but with just 2 of those 3 cards being used. That May 2020 article in itself was a bit of GPU madness with me employing 3 different cards for various purposes. This is a bit of a throwback to my article from May of last year – Tri-Booting a Mac Pro 2,1 – not long before I had just procured my Mac Pro 5,1 (well technically a 4,1 that was flashed to a 5,1 with dual Intel Xeon 5680 CPUs with 12 cores at 3.33 GHz). ![]()
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