radeon rx580 for Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 drops july 2

7/2/2019

US sales start July 2

Initial US orders will be 10 cards for immediate shipment and 20 pre-orders for shipment July 8.

First cards shipped will be the official Apple sanctioned Sapphire Pulse 580 8 GB with single 8 pin power connect that you can feed via 6 to 8 or dual 6 to 8 for $25 more.

European partners will be following shortly, updates coming.

Mail-In flashes will be limited to the Sapphire Pulse 580 8GB with Single 8 pin and 2 @ DP, 2 @ HDMI, single Dual-Link DVI. (no VGA support without additional active adapter).

Boot Screen tested to desktop in 10.13.6, and 10.14.5, and latest Catalina Beta. It Just Works.

22 Comments

Rhian

7/2/2019 05:02:11 am

Do you have plans for Sapphire NITRO+ RX 580 8G?

Dan

7/2/2019 07:35:12 am

So is it JUST the Sapphire Pulse 580 8GB, or will my ASUS Radeon RX 580 with 2DP, 2HDMI, 1DL-DVI and single 8pin work as well?

dave link

7/3/2019 02:05:06 am

Eventually we'll work our way into more cards, starting with the ones Apple explicity supports first.

DAVE MVC

7/3/2019 02:11:36 am

NITRO gave issues first try. Will revisit eventually

bo laurent

7/2/2019 11:13:57 am

Can you explain why I would want a dual 6 to 8? Or, even better, just tell me what to buy for my MacPro4,1 (flashed to MacPro5,1). I am replacing a 980 flashed by you.

Daniel

7/23/2019 07:25:31 pm

6-pin PCIe = 75w each

8-pin = 150w

6-pin + 6-pin = 8-pin

Vasu Tummala

7/2/2019 03:14:33 pm

Hoping for a mail-in flash on my Asus ROG Strix Radeon Rx 480 8GB OC Edition

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J3TZJOA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

dave mvc link

7/3/2019 02:07:06 am

soon

Tom

7/2/2019 04:16:57 pm

Cant find on site. 4:14 pacific
Thx.

Forrest

7/2/2019 05:45:04 pm

Do the flashed cards include any kind of power management changes to stay in the power and thermal envelope of a 5,1?

H9826790

7/2/2019 09:32:15 pm

AFAIK, the PULSE RX580 8GB always stay within the cMP’s power / thermal envelope.

I did some tests with this card.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mp5-1-what-you-have-to-do-to-upgrade-to-mojave-bootrom-upgrade-instructions.2142418/

Only by running Furmark can make this card draw tiny bit outside that 225W (peak value under normal measurable time frame, not momentary power spike).

I personally will say no need to worry about the power draw for any normal usage, even very demanding work flow. And I believe it’s very impossible for MVC to fine tune each RX580 one by one. It’s very time consuming to undervolt each card properly, need a lot of stability tests. Quite impossible to get a single number that provide noticeable power saving which fit all cards.

dave mvc

7/3/2019 02:07:51 am

no, not needed

Mahdi Hedhli

7/2/2019 05:56:01 pm

Hoping for some Vega news!

Stuart Affleck

7/3/2019 03:04:18 pm

I heard you're going to be doing an EFI ROM for the Gigabyte AORUS RX580. Hoping that works out OK, I have one of those myself. Will MacStore UK be offering the mail-in flash service?

SnakeCoils

7/5/2019 08:43:06 am

Can you please clarify if those flashed RX580 cards works also with Win7/10 (Bootcamp) without issues? I know AMD drivers for Windows are very picky about firmware modifications...

Ruggero

7/9/2019 07:35:59 am

Hello, have I read correctly?
An EFI Sapphire Radeon RX580 Boot Screen update for Mac Pro 5,1 will be available soon ...?
Can you download ... at what price? This is very interesting.
Can anyone confirm?

Geoff

8/6/2019 05:39:44 pm

Hi
I'm curious what kind of performance the RX 580 would have over an AMD Radeon R9 280 (3 GB)? I got the R9 when it was becoming apparent that my NVIDIA card wouldn't ever support Mojave.

The only thing I do that requires high speed video, aside from very rare video clip processing, is to do occasional flight simulation with X-Plane...it would be kind-of nice if I could bump up the frame rate a little.

Ladd Morse

8/8/2019 10:45:39 am

I have a non-Mac flashed Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX580 w/8G of RAM (dual HDMI, dual DP, 1 DVI Ports). It works fine running my three wide-screen monitors, but not having the Mac startup screen can sometimes be annoying. Is this card eligible for Mac flashing and if so, at what cost?

Melvin Astrahan link

10/5/2019 12:46:54 pm

hi Dave, I have 3 Mac Pro 5.1, one an actual 2010, 2 were originally 2009 4.1s, they are both 6 and 12-core versions now with with X5690 cpus, all are running MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 with Sapphire NITRO+ RX 580 8G cards (the blue colored cases). All systems work perfectly except of course no initial boot screen. If you now have developed a way to reflash these 3 video cards to see a boot screen I am interested in having that service performed on all 3 cards. Thanks. Mel [email protected]

nights

5/10/2020 08:18:56 am

Hi

Big problem
I bought a new macvidcards Sapphire Pulse 580 8GB with Single 8 pin ... I have a Mac Pro 5.1 firmware 144.0000 with Mojave 10.14.6. Yes the Apple Boot screen is there. Everything is going well even with normal start. But in recovery mode I have a black screen and no picture. I also boot from a USB stick with a black screen. Even if I e.g. set a firmware password, it does not show the password input correctly and correctly on the Apple boot screen. I haven't tested the boot camp menu ...

Mike Konstan

6/14/2020 04:33:06 am

Hey, I was just reading on some other boards where a user had a similar problem you describe regarding the black screen and was also only using the single to 8pin option. Apparently the fix was to go with the dual 6 to 8pin, since the card supposedly wasn't getting enough power. Can't say that is definitely it in your case, but it's something you might want to check out.

Netiwat Wongchindarak

7/7/2020 02:14:59 am

Are you Do with nitro right now

radeon rx580 for Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 drops july 2

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