The device ID is present in the appropriate locations in the drivers. It's 73BF if you want to look for it yourself.
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The device ID is present in the appropriate locations in the drivers. It's 73BF if you want to look for it yourself.
I have sold my VII and am waiting for new cards ?.
I was hoping this would be a good place to discuss which coolers we think would fit in the cMP without blocking the second PCIe slot. Sapphire has a pretty good photo of the size of the “2.5 slot” reference cooler here.
We can count on the 6800 to be 2 slot but the XT’s are oversized. When actual cards are released we can then look into which ones have best OpenCore display compatibility and OS compatibility.
I was hoping this would be a good place to discuss which coolers we think would fit in the cMP without blocking the second PCIe slot. Sapphire has a pretty good photo of the size of the “2.5 slot” reference cooler here.
We can count on the 6800 to be 2 slot but the XT’s are oversized. When actual cards are released we can then look into which ones have best OpenCore display compatibility and OS compatibility.
Sapphire does not sell W5700 Pro, which is a 2 slot card:
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but a similar RX 5700XT, which is a 2 slot as well:
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Eksu, were you not happy with the VII? That GPU is still very good, especially with compute. Have you looked at the Pro VII? That one should be compatible with Mojave still. I personally wouldn't go with a GPU that requires an unsupported OS, especially since Mojave is still receiving security updates. I'm also not fully convinced Apple has worked out all the bugs with their Navi drivers.
Oh I was very happy with the VII, I just wanted to get an upgrade before it depreciated. I actually sold my VII for more than I bought it for - more than enough to cover a 6800XT and almost enough for a 6900XT.
I have a 280X with bootscreen, 460, 580 and w7000 FirePro, so I have some backups I am running on now.
I primarily use my GPU for gaming in Windows (on a LG Ultrafine 4K, 4096x2304) and in MacOS probably my most common use case is h264/265 transcoding in MacOS. With the double performance upgrade I would like to start gaming on a LG ultrafine 5K. If driver support doesn’t work out I’ll buy a VII when they have gone down in price, maybe an anniversary edition in red.
I should also add that I’ve been running Big Sur beta since day one. My hope is whatever card I end up with has OpenCore display support in an unaccelerated manner for Mojave and Catalina and such.
I have a 280X with bootscreen, 460, 580 and w7000 FirePro, so I have some backups I am running on now.
I primarily use my GPU for gaming in Windows (on a LG Ultrafine 4K, 4096x2304) and in MacOS probably my most common use case is h264/265 transcoding in MacOS. With the double performance upgrade I would like to start gaming on a LG ultrafine 5K. If driver support doesn’t work out I’ll buy a VII when they have gone down in price, maybe an anniversary edition in red.
I should also add that I’ve been running Big Sur beta since day one. My hope is whatever card I end up with has OpenCore display support in an unaccelerated manner for Mojave and Catalina and such.
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11.1 includes framebuffer support for Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT, & 6900 XT (Edit: Driver is incomplete.) There are also 3 specific frame buffer personalities for Navi 21 GPUs which suggests 3 new MPX modules for the 7,1 are coming.
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Just in case you missed it, AMD announced the Arcturus CDNA based Instinct MI100 HPC GPU. There isn't any indication this architecture will be supported by macOS, but it's still interesting. It looks like it may be based on Vega, rather than Navi. Arcturus is GFX908 while Vega 20 is GFX906 and GFX907. Navi 21 is GFX1030. It seems to me if Apple was intending to replace the Vega II GPUs for the 7,1 they would choose Arcturus instead of the gaming focused Big Navi. Perhaps then the upcoming Navi 21 GPUs are headed for a different Mac than the 7,1, which doesn't make sense to me if other Macs are being transitioned to Apple Silicon soon. Perhaps then the high end Apple chips are still a ways away and we'll see Apple continue to update Intel based Macs on the upper end over the next year.
So, is there any test that has been conducted on 11.1 beta and 6800xt? Thanks.
A very limited number of people have got their hands on the 6800XT so I guess it will take some time!
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / 6900 XT for macOS?
Functional driver or just bits of code?
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Lou
Post 30 here:
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / 6900 XT for macOS?
Functional driver or just bits of code?
Lou
Okay, so 11.1 is required.
Those GPUs will probably work better by the time of the 11.1 final release, but of course Apple's drivers for all Navi GPUs have had issues.
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / 6900 XT for macOS?
Functional driver or just bits of code?
Lou
I don't know if this can be somehow related to this thread but it looks like the new M1 macbooks can detect eGPUs and successfully show the OS on a connected display, no acceleration though.
It's relevant in relation to compatibility of AMD GPUs with an Apple Silicon based Mac Pro desktop.
I have an MSI Vega 64 Air Boost blower card in my MP5,1 running Mojave 10.14.6 via RefindPlus/OpenCore. I've noticed that the Vega 64 fan does not spin at idle, resulting in a GPU idle temp hovering anywhere between 55-60C dependent on ambient room temperatures.
Doing anything GPU intensive will of course get the Vega fan spinning. GPU temp usually peaks at 75C under load which is fine. Once the load is removed, the fan will continue to spin until it reaches 50C, at which point it will shut off again.
For the sake of longevity, I'm hoping though that there's an easy solution to get my fan to spin while idling. Any suggestions?
Doing anything GPU intensive will of course get the Vega fan spinning. GPU temp usually peaks at 75C under load which is fine. Once the load is removed, the fan will continue to spin until it reaches 50C, at which point it will shut off again.
For the sake of longevity, I'm hoping though that there's an easy solution to get my fan to spin while idling. Any suggestions?
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This looks perfectly normal to me.
Unless the fan start / stop ever few minutes (or even ever few seconds). Otherwise, keep it spinning just to burn the fan's life span.
Keep the GPU cool is good. However, keep the temperature range narrow is also good. Every warm up / cool down will cause a little bit of stress due to expansion / contraction.
So, if the GPU can keep itself work between 50-75. It may be a better option than keep the fan running, but let the GPU work between 35-75.
Anyway, if you really want to build your own fan profile, you may try VGTab.
Thanks for the reply. That's reassuring. I have much more experience with GPUs on the PC side of things; obviously not so much on the Mac. With my PC's, all of the GPU's I've used had the fans running while idle. They would ramp up or down depending on die temps, but would never actually stop spinning. On the Vega 64, I only see the fan turn on after a particular threshold is met (above 60C I think).
I also wasn't sure how to use VGTab kext injector with WEG and Lilu already running in my OC Mojave install. Reading some different threads, the likelihood for a conflict to exist is pretty high if I try to combine WEG/Lilu and VGTab kexts together.
Anyway, if you think it's fine I'll probably just leave it as is.
It's not a PC / Mac thing.
The graphic card you are running is also a PC graphic card. Many graphic cards has this zero fan mode in the last few years.
If you are not sure how to install the PowerPlay kext, better just leave it (anyway, that's independent to Lilu / WEG).
I understand the PC/Mac thing - I know that this is a PC graphics card. What I meant to say is that I'm more familiar with tweaking software settings on the PC side of things. There's a lot more software support for hardware under Windows when it comes to GPU tweaking than there is for Mac OS. I understand I can achieve similar results modifying kexts, etc, but alas I'm not very familiar with doing that yet.
Out of curiosity, is there a guide out there on how to install the PowerPlay kext in a system that already has LiLu/WEG installed?
Start from step f
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Or you can inject that via OpenCore if you want to
How to - downvolt a Radeon VII
OK, the goal achieved. Now, we can downvolt the Radeon VII with a kext (which only contain an info.plist to inject the required parameters), no need to modify the system kext anymore. OS update won't revert the modded kext. PRAM reset won't break the GPU driver. In fact, we can simply reset PRAM...
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Or you can inject that via OpenCore if you want to
Thanks. I'll tinker around with it later.Start from step f
How to - downvolt a Radeon VII
OK, the goal achieved. Now, we can downvolt the Radeon VII with a kext (which only contain an info.plist to inject the required parameters), no need to modify the system kext anymore. OS update won't revert the modded kext. PRAM reset won't break the GPU driver. In fact, we can simply reset PRAM...
Or you can inject that via OpenCore if you want to
@h9826790 - sorry, one more stupid question:
I just looked at my MP3,1 with a Radeon 7950 in it running Catalina. The fans on that graphics card are constantly running - even at idle. Based on what you wrote before, I'm assuming that since the 7950 is an older card, its BIOS is set in such a way that the fans will run constantly and only ramp up under load. Whereas, the Vega 64 being a newer card, has its BIOS telling it that it should only turn its fan on after it reaches a certain temperature threshold.
Is my understanding correct?
The reason I ask (and also why I said this is a stupid question), but my newest GPU is a GTX 1080Ti installed in a Windows box. My experience with newer-ish graphics cards ends with that, and the 1080Ti's fans run constantly irrespective of load. All other previous GPUs I've owned have had cooling fans that constantly spun at idle like the 1080. The Vega 64 is the first card I've owned that didn't do that.
Just want to make sure nothing's amiss with my setup.
I just looked at my MP3,1 with a Radeon 7950 in it running Catalina. The fans on that graphics card are constantly running - even at idle. Based on what you wrote before, I'm assuming that since the 7950 is an older card, its BIOS is set in such a way that the fans will run constantly and only ramp up under load. Whereas, the Vega 64 being a newer card, has its BIOS telling it that it should only turn its fan on after it reaches a certain temperature threshold.
Is my understanding correct?
The reason I ask (and also why I said this is a stupid question), but my newest GPU is a GTX 1080Ti installed in a Windows box. My experience with newer-ish graphics cards ends with that, and the 1080Ti's fans run constantly irrespective of load. All other previous GPUs I've owned have had cooling fans that constantly spun at idle like the 1080. The Vega 64 is the first card I've owned that didn't do that.
Just want to make sure nothing's amiss with my setup.