RTX 2080 and 2080 ti bootcamp

[rolltide4life]

Does anyone have Nvidia RTX 2080 or 2080 ti to use in bootcamped windows? does it run at pcie link speed 5.0 gt/s (PCIE 16X) ?

Thanks!

 

[JronMasteR]

Hi there, I am currently running a RTX 2080ti. It does run at full speeds.
However, you need to know that it only works if you install Win 10 in UEFI mode.
I couldn't boot the system with Win 10 in BIOS mode.

Edit: If you read through the bootrom thread, using Win 10 in UEFI mode can cause serious boot rom corruption which could actually brick your mac pro. This is why I wanted to go back to BIOS mode... and that's when I figured out that the 2080ti does not work in that case

 

[rolltide4life]

Hi there, I am currently running a RTX 2080ti. It does run at full speeds.
However, you need to know that it only works if you install Win 10 in UEFI mode.
I couldn't boot the system with Win 10 in BIOS mode.

sounds good to me. I am currently using W10 in UEFI mode so that will not be a problem for me.
is it possible for you take a screenshot of z-gpu in bootcamped windows? thanks for the reply!

 

[JronMasteR]

sounds good to me. I am currently using W10 in UEFI mode so that will not be a problem for me.
is it possible for you take a screenshot of z-gpu in bootcamped windows? thanks for the reply!

Here the screenshot

 

[h9826790]

It's possible that only 138.0.0.0.0 or 140.0.0.0.0 firmware will allow full PCIe 2.0 x16 in Windows.

 

[JronMasteR]

I don't know. What I do know is that only after upgrading to 138, MVC GPU's would remain in PCI-E 2.0 mode AFTER waking from sleep in Win 10. Before 138, MVC GPU's where locked to 1.1 until reboot

EDIT: At least that was true for Maxwell and Pascal GPU's from MVC

 

[rolltide4life]

thats really awesome. there is no reason for us to use MVC now ?

thanks again for the screenshot!

 

[JronMasteR]

thats really awesome. there is no reason for us to use MVC now ?

thanks again for the screenshot!

You're welcome
For the RTX, the only reason I could think of would be the ability to use it in BIOS mode.
However, no one knows if there will ever be drivers for Turing in Mac OS...

 

[rolltide4life]

I am thinking to use my mac pro 5,1 as full blown windows machine now. which manufacturer do you currently use for your 2080ti card?

Thanks again for the speedy reply man

 

[JronMasteR]

You're welcome, glad to help
I actually bought the founders edition... Mainly because of the looks
And because I never had issues with the FE cards.
There are a lot of good brands... I'd probably go for EVGA or ASUS

Be aware if you plan to game a lot, the mac pro's old CPU's will bottleneck the GPU in some games.

I'll be getting a new 9900k machine and the 2080ti will go in there.