Our cheapest AMD option with native Metal and Mojave/Catalina/Big Sur/Monterey/Ventura/Sonoma/Sequoia support and miniDisplayPorts.
System requirements:
- Apple Mac Pro 3,1 (2008), Mac Pro 4,1 (2009) or Mac Pro 5,1 (2010-2012)
- Apple Mac Pro 1,1 (2006) and Mac Pro 2,1 (2007) are also supported after installing Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or newer up to Mac OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan)
- installed Mac OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion) or newer
- native support by macOS Mojave/Catalina/Big Sur/Monterey and Ventura/Sonoma/Sequoia via patcher, no drivers needed
Key features:
- compatible with macOS and Windows (via BootCamp)
- supports Apple boot screen (gray screen with Apple logo on startup) via DVI and miniDisplayPorts (on 4K displays and miniDisplayPorts boot screen is not available)
- uses internal Mac Pro power supply
- supports PCI Express 2.0 x16 link under macOS and Windows (in Mac Pro 3,1/4,1/5,1)
- supports four displays simultaneously: 1x dual-link DVI-I, 1x HDMI 1.4, 2x miniDisplayPort 1.2, analog displays supported (more than 2 displays requires an active miniDisplayPort to DVI adapter)
- supports 4K@60Hz via miniDisplayPort ports and 4K@30Hz via DVI and HDMI
- supports Metal, OpenCL and OpenGL in applications and games
- supports sound via HDMI and miniDisplayPorts under macOS (after installing additional driver)
- allows an upgrade to macOS Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma and Sequoia (in Mac Pro 3,1/4,1/5,1)
Technical specification:
- graphics processor clock: 1000 MHz
- memory speed: 1200 MHz
- amount and type of memory: 2 GB GDDR5
- bus width: 256-bit
- bus: PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (5.0 GT/s) in Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 or PCI-Express 1.1 x16 (2.5 GT/s) in Mac Pro 1,1/2,1/3,1
