Without rambling on, here’s a diagram that depicts the evolution of the Mac Pro over the years and some key limiting factors of each era:ĭepending on your goal (whether trying to dual purpose your Mac Pro for both MacOS productivity and gaming in Windows or dabbling in Linux or just sticking straight-up with MacOS) – one choice of Mac Pro may be better than another, but one thing is for sure – all tower form factor Macs versus the Mac Pro 6,1 (known affectionately as the “trash can”) have a major advantage when it comes to overall graphics throughput.
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There are limiting factors on the logic board and CPU (leading theory at one point was lack of AVX instruction sets on the Xeon X series CPUs used by the Mac Pro 5,1) that do not allow these graphics cards to POST and function.
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For example, while the Pixlas Mod can be done to the Mac Pro 5,1 and provide you with all the power you need for the most powerful GPUs on the market today and while the Mac Pro 5,1 can be patched using SurPlus or MonteRand to run Big Sur or Monterey respectively (which have drivers for the AMD “Big Navi” cards that include the Radeon 6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT), you cannot just drop in a Radeon 6900 XT and expect magic to happen. In short, you might be able to run the latest GPU on a new system, but might not be able to run that same GPU on an older system (even if patched to run the latest version of MacOS). Everything from supported OS given graphics drivers available to power delivery and even various components of the CPU or logic board can wind up being limiting factors that you need to be somewhat aware of. Many factors are at play when determining what kind of graphics card you can run with your Mac Pro as these machines evolved over the years from the original Mac Pro 1,1 released in 2006 through the Mac Pro 7,1 released in 2019. Each design of the Mac Pro over the years has had its advantages and disadvantages when it comes to overall system architecture and design, including the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) options available.
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