R9 390 Mac Pro mid 2010 compatibility

Hi there,

I think that the title says it all already, but anyways...

Is the new R9 390 compatible with the Mid 2010 Mac Pro (5,1) running Yosemite 10.10.3?

Im thinking about making an upgrade and if this one is not compatible, I will be going with the R9 290x from Saphire. That should be solve my R9 290 not running on Yosemite, problem.

Thanks

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), Intel Xeon 3,3GHZ AMD Radeon R9 290

Posted on Jul 15, 2015 4:48 AM

17 replies

Nov 30, 2015 8:00 AM in response to ColinMac34

Apple do not officially tell you what AMD cards are supported, in fact officially the answer is probably no for most that actually do work because Apple is not interested in supporting third-party products. I did find the following article which includes a table listing which Apple provided driver supports which cards.

See http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/171291-radeon-compatibility-guide-ati-amd-gra phics-cards.html

It looks like while Apple have done all that is needed to support the R9 290 range they have not done so for the R9 390 range. Some users appear to have bodged things themselves but it sounds like even El Capitan still does not have full R9 390 support.

As the R9 390 range still do not support HDMI 2.0 and other things, I don't see the point getting one over a R9 290.

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Dec 2, 2015 2:12 PM in response to John Lockwood

I was able to "play" with an AMD R9 390X 8Gb, so just for fun I put it in my Mac Pro 3,1 and it worked out of the box (including being able to select boot disks with pressing <alt> after the chime)...

Although the PCIe power was insufficient when trying to run heavy games under Windows 8.1 (via BootCamp), on the Mac side (running El Capitan 10.11.1) it was all fine.

Thanks for the link to the compatibility guide!

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