Best would be to get some cheap HP GeForce GT630 2 GB or DELL GeForce GT640 1 GB/GTX645 1 GB for PC (doesn't need to be flashed with Mac rom). If your current card doesn't support Metal (like factory installed NVIDIA GeForce GT120, AMD Radeon HD4870, HD5770 or HD5870) and your new card is too new to have High Sierra support (like RX5000/RX6000 series), then you need a helper card. If you have NVIDIA card make sure to have the latest Web Driver driver installed which can be downloaded from Drivers page, otherwise installer would complain about Metal support or FileVault enabled: My graphics card is Metal capable, but macOS Mojave installer still complains about lack of Metal support. If your macOS High Sierra partition is still running HFS+ filesystem it will be automatically converted to APFS after macOS Mojave installation. We recommend performing Boot ROM update and macOS Mojave installation with no other PCIe cards installed and a SATA drive connected to one of the internal drive bays. fixes critical CPU security bugs like Spectre & Meltdown etc. adds support for PCI-Express 2.0 (5.0 GT/s link) for all PCI-Express 2.0 or faster cards instead of much slower PCI-Express 1.1 (2.5 GT/s link) Please check your Boot ROM version by following these steps: How to identify my Mac Pro model and Boot ROM? You need to update Mac Pro 5,1 Boot ROM to version 144.0.0.0 in order to install macOS Mojave 10.14 and newer unsupported systems like macOS Catalina 10.15, macOS Big Sur 11, macOS Monterey 12, macOS Ventura 13 and macOS Sonoma 14. Installing macOS Mojave 10.14 and performing Mac Pro 5,1 Boot ROM update
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