Make Offer - Apple Mac Pro (2013) 4 Core Xeon 3.7GHz 32GB RAM 512GB SSD 3GB AMD FirePro D500 Apple Mac Pro A1481 Late 2013 (500gb, 16gb, 3.5ghz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5, D500.) $1,500.00. AMD FirePro™ and Radeon™ Pro graphics empower content creators and designers at many levels, from casual makers and students all the way up to seasoned professionals and enterprise workstation users. Radeon Pro Software is certified in over 100 workstation applications covering the leading software professionals use, including Autodesk. Mac Pro 'Six Core' 3.5 (Late 2013) - is powered by a single 3.5 GHz Six Core 22-nm Xeon E5-1650v2 processor with a dedicated 256k of level 2 cache for each core and 12 MB of level 3 'Smart Cache.' By default, this model has 16GB of 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM, a 256GB SSD, and dual AMD FirePro D500 graphics processors with 3 GB of GDDR5 memory each. Testing conducted by Apple in November 2019 using preproduction 2.5GHz 28-core Intel Xeon W-based Mac Pro systems with 384GB of RAM and dual AMD Radeon Pro Vega II graphics with Infinity Fabric Link and 32GB of HBM2 each, configured with Afterburner and a 4TB SSD. Mac Pro systems tested with an attached 5K display. AMD FirePro was AMD's brand of graphics cards intended for use in workstations and servers running professional Computer-aided design (CAD), Computer-generated imagery (CGI), Digital content creation (DCC), and High-performance computing/GPGPU applications. The GPU chips on FirePro-branded graphics cards are identical to the ones used on Radeon-branded graphics cards.
If you use Boot Camp to run Windows on your Mac, you can visit the AMD website to download the latest version of their drivers for Windows. These Mac computers use AMD graphics:
- 15-inch MacBook Pro introduced in 2015 or later
- 27-inch iMac introduced in 2014 or later
- 21.5-inch iMac with Retina display introduced in 2017 or later
- iMac Pro introduced in 2017
- Mac Pro introduced in 2013 or later
Check your version of AMD graphics drivers
- Start up your Mac in Windows.
- Take any of these steps to open Radeon settings:
- Right-click your desktop and choose AMD Radeon Settings.
- Or click Radeon Settings in the notification area.
- Or choose AMD Radeon Settings from the Programs menu.
- In Radeon settings, click the System Tab, then click the Software tab.
- The version number is shown under Driver Packaging Version.
Download and install the latest AMD graphics drivers
- In Windows, go to the AMD website, then click Drivers & Support.
- Select your product from the list, not the menu: First select Graphics, then select Mac Graphics in the next column, then select Apple Boot Camp in the next column.
- Click Submit to view the list of available drivers.
- Look for the driver version that supports your Mac model. If it's a later version (higher number) than the version installed on your Mac, click Download.
- Extract the downloaded ZIP file, then run the Setup app in the resulting folder to install the drivers.
Oculus Rift disappointed Mac owners everywhere when they announced they were not going to support Macs on day 1, if ever.
There is no FirePro D500 available by itself in Windows, (only installed in a Mac Pro running Windows) so they appear to have ignored that as an Option. It is certainly powerful enough, and its Drivers should be similar to comparable AMD cards, so it should not be a lot of work to support it.
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I suggest you contact them and suggest they 'get with the Program' and include all the excellent Mac Pro late 2013 graphics card as an 'out-of-the-box' option. They are being extremely shortsighted to ignore them, as the Mac Pro has good market penetration in Academic environments.
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AMD may also be interested to hear that their high-end Mac Pro cards are not being considered as valid options for Oculus Rift. Perhaps they can apply some pressure as well.
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