

Its the first thing the Mojave installer makes you do no matter what. Had absolutely no problem getting the firmware upgrade to run and take. There is very little boot time value in going NVMe for the boot drive.My Mac Pro was connected to our 4K Fire TV when I did the upgrade, and I was still using HDDs at the time, 100% HFS+. Support him with a donation if you decide to go Catalina. The DosDude1 Catalina Patcher for installation is brilliant and works beautifully. If updating from High Sierra, make sure it's APFS, and not HFS+, otherwise the BootROM update won't work. The BootROM update won't work if there's a 4k-capable display attached. Make sure you upgrade the BootROM to 144.0.0.0.0

I've also helped a friend with a 6-core 5,1 Mojave with a Radeon RX 580.

What's the current state of graphic cards with Metal support?Īs far as I've understood, the limitations posted by Apple of not supporting models before 2012 are due to their own configurations of Mac Pro never shipping with a compatible graphics card, so it's not due to the HW of the Mac Pro itself, or any artificial limitations on the software side. I have a Mid 2010 Mac Pro (MacPro5,1), running High Sierra, that is in need of Metal support for graphics development purposes (not gaming).
