Hi All,
BACKSTORY:
I have a classic problem which I have been reading about on here for hours but cannot work out if I have found the easiest solution or not?
I have a MacPro 5.1 with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders addition that I want to take past 10.13.6 (Spec below).
The main use of this machine is for Logic X which I cannot upgrade without upgrading the O.S. however I bought this machine with the GTX 1080 as I make logo's and some music videos with the Adobe suite and therefor need some CUDA acceleration meaning I cannot upgrade the O.S 😖
QUESTION:
While reading about the upgrade process and looking at possible cards I noted the Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB appears to have both CUDA, needs no additional power and can go up to Big Sur with no messing about? Is that right, I buy it, plug it in and run a few O.S. updates and boom CUDA and Big Sur?
I know the 1080 kicks the crap out of the Titan stats wise (would it be that bad a job in After Effects or would this mostly be higher render times?). If this gets me Big Sur and hours of my life back upgrading, flashing and reading guides I will take it, might even be writing tunes again this side of 2023.
Please feel free to call me an idiot, point out better cards or berate me for not reading more before posting this as I deserve abuse for the measly few hours I have put into reading about this with all the amazing articles you have made. I also did try and search but not as hard as I should, I just cant help wonder if it is this easy why are there not a tonne of articles titled "just get this card and you're done" articles so I must be missing something?
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro5,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3.46 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 12
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per Processor): 12 MB
Memory: 64 GB
Boot ROM Version: MP51.0089.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.39f11
SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f11
Serial Number (processor tray): J520904Y3BH8C
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-4
PCIe Lane Width: x4
VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0640
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3386
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 8191 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x1b80
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: VBIOS 86.04.17.00.01
Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v3
BACKSTORY:
I have a classic problem which I have been reading about on here for hours but cannot work out if I have found the easiest solution or not?
I have a MacPro 5.1 with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders addition that I want to take past 10.13.6 (Spec below).
The main use of this machine is for Logic X which I cannot upgrade without upgrading the O.S. however I bought this machine with the GTX 1080 as I make logo's and some music videos with the Adobe suite and therefor need some CUDA acceleration meaning I cannot upgrade the O.S 😖
QUESTION:
While reading about the upgrade process and looking at possible cards I noted the Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB appears to have both CUDA, needs no additional power and can go up to Big Sur with no messing about? Is that right, I buy it, plug it in and run a few O.S. updates and boom CUDA and Big Sur?
I know the 1080 kicks the crap out of the Titan stats wise (would it be that bad a job in After Effects or would this mostly be higher render times?). If this gets me Big Sur and hours of my life back upgrading, flashing and reading guides I will take it, might even be writing tunes again this side of 2023.
Please feel free to call me an idiot, point out better cards or berate me for not reading more before posting this as I deserve abuse for the measly few hours I have put into reading about this with all the amazing articles you have made. I also did try and search but not as hard as I should, I just cant help wonder if it is this easy why are there not a tonne of articles titled "just get this card and you're done" articles so I must be missing something?
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro5,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3.46 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 12
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per Processor): 12 MB
Memory: 64 GB
Boot ROM Version: MP51.0089.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.39f11
SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f11
Serial Number (processor tray): J520904Y3BH8C
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-4
PCIe Lane Width: x4
VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0640
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3386
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 8191 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x1b80
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: VBIOS 86.04.17.00.01
Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v3
