Metal-GPU for Mac Pro 3,1 (2008)

It would make basically no difference except Metal.

A like I said, go with the GTX680.

Even though it’s around $150-300 USD, It’s a great buy.

Any of us users online would be able to help you (support wise) with that card because many people use that card for the 3,1.

I've been running a GTX 770 in my cMP 3,1 for a while now and it's been great. Recently I stopped using the Nvidia drivers in favor of the ones built into OSX :)

Here's a screen shot from my system info, note the ROM version and the field below that:

From what I've read of others' experiences you'll see great improvements with any of the other compatible cards listed on that site linked above by Eau Rouge.

Good luck!

Are you trying to update to Catalina? You can’t, your hardware isn’t supported.

I wouldn’t see the point in upgrading to a metal GPU,

but if you want a metal GPU, Try Nvidia Kepler cards.

NVIDIA GTX 680

gtx7/8/9, and ATI 79xx, R7/R9 XXX

Still I wouldn’t see the point;

Youre stuck at El Capitan;

If you are probably interested in installing unsupported macOS .. you can’t do that, it isn’t allowed...

Try a Radeon 5870, it’s in my Mac Pro 1,1 and works fine...

Yep, I bought mine already flashed from Macvidcards. The GTX7/8/9 series apparently all use the same built-in OSX drivers for metal as the GTX680 so they should all work fine for you.

No I only posted that site as it is in the States and the largest amount of users here are probably from the states.

I am in the UK and bought mine from Apple Cards UK,

https://www.applecards.co.uk

But they are out of almost every card.

Don't see why you can't give me a link, is this from a mac parts shop or just some punter wanting to

monetise some old stuff he has got. Does it say in the advert for it that it has Metal support, that

it has definitely been flashed for use in a mac, and do you know for definite that it works.

When you install the NVIDIA GTX 680, what do you do for the appropriate drivers?

You can do either, I’ve seen them down to $60 secondhand, and the rest you can do yourself.. 😃