Metal Graphics Card Mac

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Hey guys in this post i am going to talk about the compatible graphics card for MacOs Catalina.


  1. Then more recently, I had to upgrade my friends iMAC with a Kepler GPU because Apple's latest OS's from High Sierra onward use a newer but significantly more low-level and efficient METAL graphics.
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition. When it comes to Graphics Cards, NVIDIA can easily make it.
METAL COMPATIBLE GRAPHIC CARD?
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Accelerating graphics and much more. Metal provides near-direct access to the graphics processing unit (GPU), enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps on iOS, macOS, and tvOS. Building on an approachable, low-overhead architecture with precompiled GPU shaders, fine-grained resource control, and multithreading support, Metal further evolves support for GPU-driven command creation, simplifies working with the array of Metal-capable GPUs.

CATALINA ONLY SUPPORTS METAL COMPATIBLE GRAPHICS CARDS!! Metal Compatible Graphics cards help in accelerating the performance of the apps and games on Apple platforms.
Catalina requires you to have a Metal Compatible Graphic card for full graphics acceleration but Metal Compatibility is not necessary for installing Hackintosh MacOs.
Is my Graphics Card Metal Compatible?
In case of Intel, all of the graphics card from Intel HD 4000 series or higher are Metal Compatible. This is the reason that you can not install MacOs Catalina On MacBook Pro 2011, because it has Intel HD 3000 series graphic card, which is not metal compatible. While, MacBook Pro 2012 supports MacOs Catalina which has Intel HD 4000 series graphics card.
If your system is not Metal Compatible, then installing Hackintosh MacOs Catalina on your laptop will result in only 4MBs for the graphics instead of 1536MBs.
Here is the list of Nvidia Cards that are Natively Supported with Catalina:
GTX Titan | GK 110GTX Titan Black | GK 110GTX Titan ZGTX 780 TiGTX 780GTX 770GTX 760 TiGT 740GT 730GT 720GT 710GTX 690GTX 680GTX 670GTX 660 TiGTX 650 TiGTX 645 (Fermi)GT 640 (Kepler edition, GK 107/208 core)GT 630 (Kepler edition, GK 208 core)Quadro 410Quadro K420Quadro K600Quadro K2000/DQuadro K4000/DQuadro K4200Quadro K5000Quadro K5200Quadro K6000Quadro NVS510

Graphics card requirements

Metal Graphics Card Mac

Final Cut Pro, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 require a graphics card that supports Metal, an Apple technology that lets the system and apps efficiently tap into the capabilities of today’s graphics processors (GPUs). If you're editing 4K video, using 3D titles, or editing 360º video, 1GB of VRAM is recommended.

Supported aftermarket graphics cards

The following aftermarket graphics cards support Metal in macOS Mojave and later:

  • AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
  • NVIDIA Quadro K5000 for Mac
  • AMD Radeon VII
  • MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 128-bit 4GB GDRR5
  • SAPPHIRE Radeon PULSE RX 580 8GB GDDR5
  • SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
  • NVIDIA Quadro K5000 for Mac
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
  • AMD Radeon RX 560
  • AMD Radeon RX 570
  • AMD Radeon RX 580
  • AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100
  • AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
  • AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
  • AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100
  • AMD Radeon Frontier Edition

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