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Will a GTX 1050 Work on my Mac Pro?

Hey guys, i just have a quick question. I am wanting to upgrade my Nvida Gt 120 Graphics card to a Nvida Geforce Gtx 1050. I know i need to install new drivers. Will this card fit and work in my mac? I know i have to get more power. This card will be used for After Effects, Premier Pro and Final cut. I'll also use it for some games such as Rocket League and Gta V. Anyways thanks for reading.

Specs:

Mac Pro 4.1 (Early 2009)

OSX Sierra (10.11.0)

16 Gb Ram

3.33 GHz Quad Core intel Xeon e5

NVIDA GeForce GT 120 512 Mb

3 TB of storage

Mac Pro, iOS 10.1, Operating system is 11.0 (Seirra)

Posted on Oct 28, 2016 7:23 PM

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maisonYCD

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Posted on Mar 10, 2018 10:20 AM

I have 2 Mac Pro 2012 2x6-cores.

Each came installed with the ATI Radeon HD 5770.

I have installed the GTX 1050 on one and the gtx 950 on another.
Both work, albeit without the boot screen.
To get the boot screen, I keep the original card in for one monitor that doesn't require 4K capability.

I also installed the NVIDIA web drivers.

Just make sure you order yourself through amazon or something, some mini-6pin to 6pin power cable for video card.

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alex7375

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702 points

Jan 3, 2018 7:12 PM in response to tko03

I too am looking for a graphics card for my 2009 Mac Pro.

I read that Nvidia GTX 10x cards have problems with Nvidia drivers.

When the computer wakes from sleep the screen flickers.

I read that AMD R9 280 , RX 260, RX 280 , RX 580 RX 480 work better and have native support built into MacOS High Sierra.

kaz-k

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Oct 28, 2016 9:11 PM in response to tko03

It could work if following driver is installed on your Mac Pro.

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/102822/en-us

lllaass

Level 10

210,513 points

Oct 29, 2016 1:02 AM in response to tko03

Presently there are not any Mac drivers for that series of cards.

The link kaz-k provides only supports:

GeForce 600 Series:

GeForce GTX 680

GeForce 200 Series:

GeForce GTX 285

GeForce 100 Series:

GeForce GT 120

GeForce 8 Series:

GeForce 8800 GT

Quadro Series:

Quadro K5000 for Mac, Quadro 4000 for Mac

Quadro FX Series:

Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 5600

The cards do work with Boot Camp though with Windows drivers

Dec 4, 2016 8:11 AM in response to tko03

I bought that card, and have the same Mac Pro. I tried every NVIDIA driver I could find, (Nvidia doesn't make it easy to locate all the various Mac drivers). Most wouldn't even install with Sierra, the few that would didn't work. Monitor stayed black for a very long time after boot. I didn't expect to see the boot screen, but I did think it would eventually show the desktop 😟 I'm returning to the card tomorrow.

Dec 4, 2016 12:40 PM in response to tko03

NO! Be warned.

It won't work, unless APPLE helps Nvidia supporting driver development for the new GTX 10x0 / Pascal Architecture.

What WORKS:

Instead I recommend to put one (or two) nvidia GTX 980ti or a titan X black into your MacPro (google how to "980ti in mac pro"). They are offered by macvidcards. You also need OS X 10.11 or 10.10 (not Sierra!) and later Nvidia Webdriver for Mac. I run several MacPros with this multi-GPU constellation, runs very nice.

There is a big community of Nvidia/Mac addicted waiting since 6 months for Apple and Nvidia releasing drivers with Pascal/1050/1070/1080 and Titan X PAScal support. Both Apple and Nvidia are "in charge"... unfortunately not able to support this newest pascal architecture (maybe because Apple focuses on AMD?).