The NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12GB ECC 384-bit GDDR5 is a professional Metal graphics card modified for Mac Pro models 4,1 - 5,1 (2009-2012) to show -


• Apple Logo Boot Screen

• Boot Menu Selector

• Progress Bar

• Verbose Single User Mode

• Recovery Mode

• FireWire Target Mode

• Firmware Updates

• OS X Installer Setup

• OpenCore Setup


This cards power limits have been tweaked and modified within safe range for Mac Pro power limit requirements in mind to prevent crashing under full load for a smooth and crash free experience.


This video card is Plug ’n Play (gpu power cables mandatory)


Native support starts on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 with official Nvidia drivers up to Big Sur 11.x. OCLP provides support on Sequoia 15.x and Sonoma 14.x and Ventura 13.x and Monterey 12.x


Tested working on Mac Pro 4,1 - 5,1 up to Sequoia 15.x

Tested working on Windows 7 - 11 Boot Camp


Cable adapters, port functionality, performance, resolutions, refresh rates, may act differently between different operating systems. Behavior in one version may be different than in another.


Card has been fully stress tested and monitored on all output ports and works perfectly in both either OS X versions or Windows Boot Camp.


Supports 2+ multiple displays. Adapters that are 'Active' or 'Passive' will yield different results.



Maximum Resolutions:

  • Dual Link DVI: 1080p @ 60Hz
  • DisplayPort 1.2: 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz, 5120 x 2880 @ 30Hz
  • VGA (w/adapter): 2048x1536 @ 75Hz
  • *Note: 4K 3840 x 2160 resolutions require OS 10.9 or better for best compatibility/performance
  • *Note: 4K @ 60Hz & 5K @ 30Hz on DisplayPort 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 adapter

Output ports come as: 


1 x Dual-link DVI-I, 1 x Dual-link DVI-D, 2 x DisplayPort


Graphics Features


Metal Support

DirectX 12 (11.1)

OpenGL 4.6

OpenCL 3.0

Vulkan 1.2.175

CUDA 3.5

Shader Model 6.5 (5.1)

Clock Speeds

GPU Clock

797 MHz

Boost Clock

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz 

6000 Mbps effective

Render Config

Shading Units

2880

TMUs

240

ROPs

48

SMX Count

15

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

54.12 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

216.5 GTexel/s

Bandwidth

288.4 GB/s


*Main image is only a representation of GeForce in the Mac Pro and actual card may look different upon arrival.


*Cables included upon request at checkout. Strongly urged to re-use your existing 6pin cables if applicable.

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