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. Once you get to High Sierra (supported unofficially on the Mac Pro 3,1 and officially on the Mac Pro 4,1/5,1) and beyond you can’t have both a high powered Metal capable GPU (like a Vega 56 or RX 580) running in tandem with a lower powered non-Metal card (such as a Radeon HD 2600 XT) or the Mac just won’t boot into those newer OSes. You can check to see if your graphics card is compatible by holding down option while selecting Apple logo to access System Information. That Ive been able to find on the subject, the only two that support a boot screen are: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition. You still need the original video card installed in order to see a boot screen. MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 128-bit 4GB GDDR5Īpple also lists other AMD graphics cards that 'might' be compatible with macOS Mojave: Per the list John linked to, most only support metal as a secondary card.Full-blown GPU execution is controlled via the Metal Shading Language.

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: Metal is a low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API.

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