I have a MacPro graphics card that is not officially supported. Does you list include Nvidia cards that claim to support Metal. For example a GTX 980 4 GB works fine in High Sierra. It requires a new driver every time there is a dot change to MacOS.

I have a Nvidia GTX 980 in a Mac Pro 5,1 that works well under MacOS 10.13.6. It is flashed to work on a Mac Pro PCIe card slot. Could Apple acknowledge it? I have guarantees from the company that sold it to me that it will work with Metal and macOS X 10.14. Currently, there is not a 10.14 driver update. So I am also using a AMD 580 card on recommendation of Apple. The driver often lags the updates of macOS. So I can't test it right away. The recommendation for the Nvidia card is always to wait until the driver updates appear. I realize that this isn't for everyone. You have to update the driver each macOS dot update. But I have had no issues with it up to Mojave.

Nvidia GTX 980 is a great card for working with Adobe products, especially Premiere with Cuda cores. On another issue, does anyone else have vital 32 bit apps? I have a couple. I a

Mac Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), Mac Pro 5,1 Nvidia GTX 980

Posted on Sep 27, 2018 9:16 AM

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Geotrax

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Posted on Sep 27, 2018 11:45 AM

Hello dayru, unfortunately, my understanding of the situation is that the only officially supported GeForce GTX Metal capable graphics card is the GTX 680 Mac Edition. However, most modern GTX cards do support Metal with the web driver, but you won't be able to update. Since you have a FLASHED GTX 980, you should be able to update to Mojave and then install the web drivers once available from NVIDIA. I would hold off upgrading until then, though.

To answer your question about why the cards are not OFFICIALLY supported, it is because they are technically still "PC" graphics cards and not "Mac Edition" cards. While Apple has Radeon drivers built into macOS, there are no GeForce drivers built in for anything but the 6xx and 7xx cards.

Hope it helps!
-Geotrax

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