MP 7,1 GPU Options 2024 for MacOS and Windows

[Tony Danger]

I wonder how to uninstall the Radeon drivers? And in that case, the MPX module is no longer available, right?

So when I was running from the 6800xt without drivers, it just uses the default windows settings (so it will give picture at least).

Uninstalled the Radeon Pro software from Add/Remove programs then installed Adrenaline from AMDs site. This gave me full performance and audio pass through on DP.

On MacOS the card just works. No ideas if there’s issues with sleep, I don’t use the feature. When I leave the machine I shut it down completely.

 

[Tony Danger]

Sorry, my fault, takin aussi dollars 1:1 for Euros.

Anyway. Nobody would pay 70% of the release price for a 5 year old machine which can not even keep up with a well equipped 5,1...and any recent 600 Euro Mini would whipe the floors with. Not even "never used".

But please feel free to buy...if it looks like a bargain to you.

Mac Pro 7,1 in the UK / EU sells for £1,500 / €1,700 upwards all day long. I got incredibly lucky buying mine, but for entry level spec 1,500+ is normal.

 

[avkills]

Sure would be nice if we could use 7xxx cards from AMD in 7,1 machines.

 

[Tony Danger]

Sure would be nice if we could use 7xxx cards from AMD in 7,1 machines.

Agreed, but since Apple has killed off Intel it’s unlikely.

 

[flyproductions]

Mac Pro 7,1 in the UK / EU sells for £1,500 / €1,700 upwards all day long. I got incredibly lucky buying mine, but for entry level spec 1,500+ is normal.

Yes, sounds alot more realistic to me than some 12 to 20k aussi Dollars which equals 7 to 12k Euros...for something becoming more of a "collector's item" than a professional tool every day.

One could learn from what happened to the 5,1 prices years ago...with not even some Apple Silicon arround. Basic configurations will drop below the 1k-line sometime (very) soon.

 

[Tony Danger]

Yes, sounds alot more realistic to me than some 12 to 20k aussi Dollars which equals 7 to 12k Euros...for something becoming more of a "collector's item" than a professional tool every day.

One could learn from what happened to the 5,1 prices years ago...with not even some Apple Silicon arround. Basic configurations will drop below the 1k-line sometime (very) soon.

I think part of what will hold the prices up on these for a while is the CPUs. They’re still very valid in the enterprise world. It’s not difficult to find better species units for £4,000 - , £6,000 which would easily hit your $12k AUS. AUS to GBP is about 2 > 1

Those prices i shared above are for entry specs give or take a little.

 

[flyproductions]

I think part of what will hold the prices up on these for a while is the CPUs. They’re still very valid in the enterprise world. It’s not difficult to find better species units for £4,000 - , £6,000 which would easily hit your $12k AUS. AUS to GBP is about 2 > 1

Those prices i shared above are for entry specs give or take a little.

Yes, this is today! ...at the very dawn of the 7,1.

I don’t know, where you get your 6.000 from. The highest i see in your pictures is a farely maxed out configuration with a 28-core which didn't even hit 5 grand. And also a 16-core, that was sold below 2. At the moment a more or less realistic number for a basic configuration, not right before christmas, should be somewhere around 1.500 Euros. But this will change soon!

As i said above: One willing to learn could learn from what has happened to the prices of the 5,1 some years ago. Sure the Xeon Ws sell higher than the X56xx do or ever have did. But, on the other hand, there was no Apple Silicon around then. And today even the base-spec M4 Mac Mini whipes the floor with the 28-core 7,1 „Pro“ in a lot of tasks, having i. e. more than twice of the SC-CPU performance. So one does not have to be a clairvoyant to see, that at the latest the drop out of OS-support with (most likely) the next big upgrade for all of the Intel-Macs will bring very hard times for the "still proud" owners/sellers of 7,1s.

Don't get me wrong! I very much like these machines and sure will buy one of them one day. But i'm not stupid enough to be one of the last, paying premium for a dying technology. No matter, what the first hand owner was stupid enough to pay Apple...with the M-Macs in clear sight.

 

[Tony Danger]

Yes, this is today! ...at the very dawn of the 7,1.

I don’t know, where you get your 6.000 from. The highest i see in your pictures is a farely maxed out configuration with a 28-core which doesn't even hit 5 grand. And also a 16-core, that was sold below 2. At the moment a more or less realistic number for a basic configuration, not right before christmas, should be somewhere around 1.500 Euros. But this will change soon!

As i said above: One willing to learn could learn from what has happened to the prices of the 5,1 some years ago. Sure the Xeon Ws sell higher than the X56xx do or ever have did. But, on the other hand, there was no Apple Silicon around then. And today even the base-spec M4 Mac Mini whipes the floor with the 28-core 7,1 „Pro“ in a lot of tasks, having i. e. more than twice of the SC-CPU performance. So one does not have to be a clairvoyant to see, that at the latest the drop out of OS-support with (most likely) the next big upgrade for all of the Intel-Macs will bring very hard times for the "still proud" owners/sellers of 7,1s.

Don't get me wrong! I very much like these machines and sure will buy one of them one day. But i'm not stupid enough to be one of the last, paying premium for a dying technology. No matter, what the first hand owner was stupid enough to pay Apple...with the M-Macs in clear sight.

Literally 10 seconds of searching you’ve got one for $9,500 and $11,000 equivalent GBP / AUS.

 

[Regulus67]

Sure would be nice if we could use 7xxx cards from AMD in 7,1 machines.

I have just test installed a RX 7900 XTX.

I got the card for Windows gaming only. And I like how much room there is left around the card.
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Booted up in macOS Monterey, just to see if it would run at all.

It is painfully slow 😂

Oh, I almost forgot.
It would not let me install the drivers while the Vega II card was installed, in Windows 10.


edit: The DIY 5k display connected to the USB-C port works well. With full resolution 👍