The ATI Radeon HD 5870 in my 2012 MacPro (5,1 running High Sierra 10.13.6) died earlier today. A moment of silence, please. It was driving my primary monitor which went black (while the menu monitor, driven by an ancient ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB, stayed on). After 20 seconds or so the computer restarted, and my main monitor displayed a screen of vertical green lines and would not reboot. A hard restart resulted in multiple startup "bongs", never booting. Removing the card allowed the computer to boot with the Radeon 2600. Whew. I was worried something had gone wrong in the MacPro itself.
In an effort to keep doing client work I swapped in a GeForce GTX 970 card I had sitting around. Via Screen Sharing from another MacPro on our network I was able to update the Nvidia Web Driver and CUDA and restart. Once I did that my desktop appeared after booting, but the poor performance of the card makes it essentially unusable.
Any guess as to what could be causing this? I've read other threads on these forums that indicate the GTX 9XX series of cards work acceptably on High Sierra.
Removing all of the other cards from the PCI slots doesn't help. I removed 3-4 startup items I wasn't using. I switched from the DVI port to the Display Port. I tried the card in a different slot. Nothing helps.
This GTX card worked much more smoothly a few years ago when I was running either Yosemite or El Capitan (I don't remember which). I bought it in the hopes that a CUDA-enabled card would speed up my work in After Effects or make my viewport more responsive in Cinema 4D, but it really didn't. The only big performance improvement came when using its CUDA power to calculate fluid simulations in the Turbulence FD plugin in C4D, where it was much much faster than using the CPUs to make those calculations.
This issue is sort of moot since I have an HP workstation I can (reluctantly) use. I've also ordered a
SAPPHIRE Radeon PULSE RX 580 8GB that should be here on Monday. It sounds like that's been working pretty well and is Metal-compatible. No CUDA, but I was doing okay without that. I'm anxious to see how much I'd have to spend to get a new MacPro that's better than my current system. I really don't want to move to Windows.
Here are some screen grabs of my setup:
Thanks!
Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics
In an effort to keep doing client work I swapped in a GeForce GTX 970 card I had sitting around. Via Screen Sharing from another MacPro on our network I was able to update the Nvidia Web Driver and CUDA and restart. Once I did that my desktop appeared after booting, but the poor performance of the card makes it essentially unusable.
Any guess as to what could be causing this? I've read other threads on these forums that indicate the GTX 9XX series of cards work acceptably on High Sierra.
Removing all of the other cards from the PCI slots doesn't help. I removed 3-4 startup items I wasn't using. I switched from the DVI port to the Display Port. I tried the card in a different slot. Nothing helps.
This GTX card worked much more smoothly a few years ago when I was running either Yosemite or El Capitan (I don't remember which). I bought it in the hopes that a CUDA-enabled card would speed up my work in After Effects or make my viewport more responsive in Cinema 4D, but it really didn't. The only big performance improvement came when using its CUDA power to calculate fluid simulations in the Turbulence FD plugin in C4D, where it was much much faster than using the CPUs to make those calculations.
This issue is sort of moot since I have an HP workstation I can (reluctantly) use. I've also ordered a
SAPPHIRE Radeon PULSE RX 580 8GB that should be here on Monday. It sounds like that's been working pretty well and is Metal-compatible. No CUDA, but I was doing okay without that. I'm anxious to see how much I'd have to spend to get a new MacPro that's better than my current system. I really don't want to move to Windows.
Here are some screen grabs of my setup:
Thanks!
Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics
