Radeon™ 64 Pro Vega Graphics on iMac Pro 10 Core/64Ghz Ram

Radeon™ Pro Vega 64 Graphics could be a problem with my Audio Machine. Currently had the logic board crash again and will not run my T3 drives and external monitor or audio interface. Drives show power but screen will not illuminate or fully boot up.

My hunch is that something is wrong with the graphics card on the board as the T3 ports run through the GPU. They replaced the logic board and power supply once again and still not booting up my peripherals. However when I tested my peripherals on a Vega 56 new iMac pro in the store the drives booted up just fine. Any guesses?



iMac Pro, 10.14

Posted on Oct 9, 2020 10:22 PM

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Oct 10, 2020 6:27 PM in response to 3030jazz

Yes... in that case, you’d have to talk to Apple about that. Make appointment @ your local genius bar, see what they say . If you had Apple care your warranty would be 3 years . If you wanted to return it, it would be 30 days from when you bought it. Again i dunno. If you tried to shoehorn a vega 64 in, you may have done some damage. So, take it in see what they say + get back to us


jihn b

Oct 10, 2020 5:39 PM in response to Johnb-one

Yes John B

it is definitely a iMac Pro 27” build in 2017 and I chose the upgrade 64G graphics card instead of the regular 56gpu. It also has 64 G of ram


i am running pro tools 2019.6 and Mohave. This computer cost me about $8400.00 Cad with tax. At that time the New Mac Pro was not released so I had no option. Previously I had been successful with a hot rodded 27” 2012 iMac and the included monitor The bonus.


it seems to me this computer is incapable of powering its own GPU, my two OWC envoy 2T SSD’s an external monitor and my powered slate digital VRS8 interface All at once, even though it was supposedly built to do this. Otherwise I would have built a custom PC. I feel like I’m stuck here and maybe should be pressing Apple to give me a credit toward a Mac that will do this work. All the while clients are waiting.

Oct 10, 2020 6:53 PM in response to Johnb-one

Yes definitely I did not accept the 2nd repair which did not solve the issue. My Apple store people are very reasonable, just waiting to hear how reasonable the voice from on high will be. They have a policy of three repairs before replacement.


it’s just crazy that Apple puts a new CPU and PSU and still no better than before.

i must be that lucky guy.


off the shelf base line new iMac Pro in the store worked fine.

Oct 10, 2020 3:59 PM in response to 3030jazz

Yes... a very simple one...but 1st a question to you: i know, yes... this sounds kinda dumb and foolish...but it has to be asked: do you have an iMac (which has a built in monitor) or a Mac Pro ( which does not)?? It should tell you the name, model and year of your Mac under “about this mac”, under the apple icon, top left of your screen. If you do for sure have sn iMac, how on Earth did you manage to try to get a Vega 64 in there???? As far as I know, the only iMacs with that capability are the new iMac pro’s... yes.... THOSE ones.. starts at about $ 4, 000 and goes up from there depending on what you ordered. Those are build-to-order, i believe. The only way to get even slightly better graphics would be to use an eGPU via Thunderbolt 3. No other way is really possible. If you are using an add- on Thunderbolt 3 card, the only one i’ve heard if is the Titan Ridge card- and that has to be flashed to work on a Mac. The Vega 56, 64, 5700 xt and the vega frontier edition and the Radeon VII will ALL require some kind of power mod to get them to work properly. The logic board only supports around 200-220 watts max power draw before it shorts out and shuts everything down. So—- your call,3030jazz—- do you want to keep having to pay for a new logic board and power supply plus labour and installation or not... that’s gotta be an easy $ 1,000 each time, plus labour and installation, at least. If you want to ‘get wise’ look up ‘The House of Moth’ and “Pixlas Mod”.... as i said, it’s your call...not mine....


good luck to you


john b

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