hey guys it's Lance at Mac Sound Solutions and today I have installed a
Rx 5700 XT into my Mac Pro 5-1 which is a 2009 running Xeon 5680s 33.3 gigahertz
processors and I'm also upgraded of course to Catalina because this will
not run in anything but Catalina and later so I'm gonna put the links in my
description on the methods I use to do this now I did not use Dosdudes patcher
to get Catalina installed I use TSI Alex from Mac rumors so it's not being
patched what you have to do is take a hard drive hook it up to a computer that
is Catalina compatible and install Catalina on that drive and then stick
that into your Mac Pro and then you boot up into recovery mode you put in his
terminal command and then bingo you're booting up in Catalina now I was able to
boot up in Catalina this is pretty remarkable into my 980ti
this has the Mac efi soldered into the motherboard or into the logic board and
but I wasn't sure if it would work but I was able to boot up into Catalina with
that card I don't get video acceleration but it's enough to get around to do
things in the system you get it on it was coming up on one monitor instead of
my three monitors I was able to do like for instance transfer all my files over
and also do the opencore install the opencore install that Martin Lo came
up with he took it and made it into a little convenient package that takes you
about five minutes to do which is unbelievable so it gives you boot screen
on a video card that does not does not have a Mac efi which in the past never
used to be this is a brand new thing once you have catalina on your computer
you install open core and you get your boot screen now he I'm
pretty sure he said that you should not install it on an nvme in a PCIe slot
because for one reason how are you gonna get that out of your Mac to update it on
another Mac you'd have to have like one of those PCIe boxes with Thunderbolt or
something so the best way to do it is to install it on an SSD that you're going
to keep in one of the four slots I personally didn't do that
I installed it on my owc mercury acscelsior which is my backup drive and
that's also a PCIe drive so I what I did was I installed on a spinning drive
formatted in a APFS I installed Catalina from my macbook pro which is running
catalina i was able to install it on there and then I took that and I took that and I stuck
it in my Mac Pro and I used Carbon Copy cloner 5 and I cloned the system to my
SSD and lo and behold it worked and then I installed the opencore package which
I also put on that drive I believe he said you could put the open core on any
of the internal drives which is a better idea because the Mac will always see it
but you really have to read up on the whole situation before you do it
you know there's different video cards you could put in I went with this
because I know the base card 5700 will run on the internal Mac power but I was
not sure that this would and the first time I had it in there I booted up it
booted up okay then I ran the Heaven benchmark just to see what kind of
scores I would get it was getting a good score but boink! the whole thing shut down
oh my god jeez I don't have enough power feeding the card after I zapped my PRam
I erased opencore that's one way you can kind of get rid of open core and go
back to your original Mac EFI I reinstalled opencore and then booted up
and at first I was only getting one monitor also but then I read up on how
somebody was getting one monitor and then
kind of unplugged and plugged their monitors back in and sure enough that
worked I got all three monitors running as you can see and I got the open core
with a boot screen and now open core instead of getting that great boot
screen you now get the black boot screen like the modern Macs do so it's pretty
cool and it's gonna keep me working on this Mac Pro for at least another year
and maybe further because you know the new Mac Pros are so pricey gotta wait
for those to come down in price because you know the value ratio is hmm but I'm
gonna wait for a refurbished I'm gonna wait at least a year so that the prices
come back to reality because they are really expensive beautiful machine but
you know you can have a thread Ripper PC with opencore and you're gonna crush
the Mac Pro I'm not doing like huge scientific calculations can you please
just hold it steady for me all right all right!
there we go... what does that do what do? NO!!!!!!!!!
this Mac Pro does everything I needed to do for audio and you know now my video
card is stronger and my Final Cut Pro X time exporting is going to be a lot
better because with the 980ti it was pretty slow but at the same time
I used to edit 4k multicam shows that it's like hour-long footage with ten
cameras and I create proxy media from the 4k I'd edit and the proxy I'd export
back in the 4k and it worked great so our first benchmark is the Bruce X
test 5k export as you can see here the RX 5700 xt just crushes the gtx 980ti
in dozen 12 seconds gtx 980ti took a minute in 16 seconds so this is really
gonna speed up exporting in Final Cut Pro X so I wanted to do more of a
real-world test exporting a video that I had edited this had a huge amount of
color correction and it had overlays text slideshow you name it it's my wife
singing the American National Anthem it's on her YouTube channel anyway the
RX 5700 xt was able to do it in a minute in 14 seconds and the 980ti took 2
minutes and 32 seconds so the RX 5700 xt was able to do it faster than real time
pretty good so if you're a Final Cut Pro editor the RX 5700 xt is really gonna
speed up your productivity if you're on a mac pro 5-1 so here we have the heaven
benchmark and as you can see the 5700 xt crushes the gtx 980ti running in 2K
mode 1440p with the highest ultra settings set so we are getting 65
frames per second as opposed to 42 fps pretty good now we have rise of the Tomb
Raider overall score is 77 frames per second on the arts 5700
XT again in 1440 mode and 51 frames per second on the 980ti and that's in Mac OS
folks 77 frames per second in 2k in ultra settings pretty good and here we
have the Metall Geekbench five test which I didn't have at the time when my
980ti ax was installed so I took their number off the website for the card but
this is the actual test run on my card with Geekbench 5 and once again it
smokes the 980ti ok so now we're on my steam account and
you can see just how many games I can no longer play due to the fact that they
are 32-bit that hurts a little basically this video card is a big step up I'm in
Catalina now there's no turning back you know one of the worst things is you lose
QuickTime 7 Pro you lose all your 32-bit applications I wish Apple would come out
with QuickTime Pro X so you know some things you just got to say bye-bye to to
stay current cuz Apple loves to just chop things off like that but I am
current and I'm and it's working and I haven't had any power outages I've
stressed the cards several times now with a lot of different benchmarks so
far so good I just got to get all my plugins working with Pro Tools most of
them are there and Pro Tools is running and it's recording so I think I'm good I
think I've done it it took me a couple of days to figure it all out but there
we go so links are in the description on how
to do this I'm glad to help out any way I can in the comments if you have any
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