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There are only a couple other cards that will work in this machine, but you'll loose the Apple boot screen with them, as the Sapphire Mac Edition card retains that functionality. This made a big difference and was required to support Metal when transitioning from a non Metal OS. We have upgraded the GPU to an AMD Sapphire Radeon 7950 Mac Edition card with 3GB VRAM (which isn't much by todays standards but more than the stock 1GB). We have been doing this for a long time and the latest FCPX 10.4.8 seemed to improve the performance on this machine. I can attest that on our Mac Pro 12 core mid 2010, 5.1 version that HD 1080 with XAVC-I, Prores 422 HQ and H.264 all run and edit very good. Some of those are available refurbished: Please Log in to join the conversation. This would also enable new interface methods like Thunderbolt, USB-C, etc.Īn even better choice would be a 2019 six or eight-core iMac 27. Just don't get one with a 1TB "Fusion" drive, and get the top GPU for that model year which was Radeon Pro 580. You can find a used or refurbished 2017 iMac 27 which is probably faster on most FCPX workflows for around $1,500 to $2,000. More info: OTOH that is making yet another investment in a 10-yr-old machine. You would have to test that yourself.Īpple has done lots of work to improve FCPX using the new Metal2 API for GPUs, but only certain cards and machines are compatible with this. It would greatly accelerate traditional GPU functions plus also might provide hardware acceleration for H.264 encode/decode. If so it might be worth considering putting an AMD Radeon Vega 64 GPU in there (if compatible). AMD's term for this is Universal Video Decoder / Video Coding Engine (UVD/VCE). Note this is a separate hardware block unrelated to the GPU which is packaged on the GPU. However - based on a test Max Yuryev ran, there is some limited evidence that FCPX might also use the similar video acceleration hardware on AMD Vega-series GPUs. On the iMac Pro and new Mac Pro it appears this is handled by Apple's custom T2 chip. guides/Mac_OS_X_CompatibilityįCPX on that machine might do the job for 1080p H.264 material, but it would be better if you had H.264 hardware acceleration. You are on Mojave which implies you have 2010 Mac Pro model 5,1 - earlier models were not compatible.

You are asking about FCPX video editing, so this is the right forum. The card is on the list of approved GPU's, but I have no idea if its adequate in 2019. I've used this machine for years for my Protools HD Studio for years and now adding video editing. I've recently gotten into video editing with FCP X, and I do so on a 12 Core Mac Pro, 64GB Ram, SSD Drives, with a Nvidia GTX 680 Video Card.