Can I use a Geforce GTX570 on Early 2009 MacPro running Mavericks

...fairly new to all this so please bear with me;
I have bought an early 2009 MacPro with a single Geforce GTX570 graphics card which is running fine on Mac OS10.7.5
I would like to start video editing and color grading using Final Cut Pro 10.1 and DaVinci Resolve lite 10.1 (and Resolve 11 when it is released in the near future)
A system requirement for Final Cut Pro 10 is OSX10.9 (Mavericks).
So, the question I am trying to answer is; can I upgrade the OS to Mavericks and will the Geforce GTX570 work with it?
I'm not sure where to start to find the answer, the NVIDIA Geforce support site wasn't very helpful and I haven't real
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks

Geforce GTX570 works well with Mavericks. Take a look at this https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4391012?start=45&tstart=0

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