Re: [Avid-L2] Recommendations for upgrading GPU on MacPro 2010

Just for the heck of it I am running a new card on my mid 2010 macpro cheese grater running Mojave and Media composer; Radeon RX580 8 GB works well! 

Owen

On Feb 8, 2020, at 3:55 PM, pale.edit@gmail.com wrote:



Yes.  The card is primarily aimed at PCs since Apple no longer sells new computers that are appropriate for this card.  The card lacks an EFI which means that you get a black screen until the OS fully loads.  This also prevents you from holding down the option key during boot to get a choice of boot disks.  If that's an important feature to you, you should stick to Mac cards.  A work around would be to hold on to your old card to pop in when you need to do that.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 3:39 PM genuinerichard <richard@editorialfreedom.ca> wrote:

Thanks Pierre.  The whole video card thing is a bit confusing.  AMD makes much more expensive cards that they promote as specifically for video post/animation.

Is it the case with the RX580 that you get a black screen on boot up until it gets to the login screen?  Is that because it is a PC card that hasn't been "flashed" for Mac?

Richard