Specifically, Metal will support any late 2012 Mac model, starting with the Mac mini onwards, including late 2012 iMac, mid 2012 Mac Pro, mid 2012 MacBook Air, 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros (Retina and non-Retina), and the new twelve-inch MacBook with Retina display. In this sense, Apple has confirmed that Metal will support Macs released since 2012, that is, older models will not experience these speed increases promised by Metal. Then we leave you the list of Macs that will be supported.įirst of all clarify that Metal for Mac takes advantage of the capabilities of all modern GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. To identify a graphics card part number, check the label on the back of the card. The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT card requires Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later with the Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 or the computer may not start up properly. In this review of the graphics options for your classic Mac Pro, explaining the reasons why the RX 580 is the best card to get as well as showing you how to install the card, how it. Both photo applications and games and video editing software such as Adobe After Effects, will experience a clear improvement, being able to execute different actions up to ten times faster by offloading certain tasks to the CPU and GPU.īut how can we know if our Mac will be compatible with Metal and will take advantage of all these improvements. Mac Pro (Original) NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (part number 630-9492), offered as an upgrade kit. Article from a 2008 Mac Pro owner (running OS X Mountain Lion) on an Nvidia GTX-570 video card upgrade (bought on auction site) that replaced an Nvidia. As with iOS, Metal in OS X El Capitan significantly reduces the graphics overhead that can occur on your computer when running OpenGL libraries, allowing low-level access to your Mac's graphics subsystem. However, for subsequently released Mac Pro models there also are compatible aftermarket video cards available, including the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X with 12.
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