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I have seen this question asked a lot, and lots of suggestions regarding a "just compatible" card for High Sierra. I have read endless posts regarding problems with installation. I have used Nvidia cards for a long time now and still have the old compatible AMD cards, which do work, but are slow. I currently use GTX1060 and GTX960 cards. Having experienced the hassle keeping the Nvidia cards up to speed with each upgrade, and last update having to downgrade drivers because of choppy video, I decided to chance an RX580 card that was priced at something below insanity. I'm just NOT going to pay $900 for a video card. I just want decent video performance.
So I ordered a Powercooler Red Devil Golden RX580 with 8Gb of RAM. I installed High Sierra 10.13.2 (I wanted to upgrade to see what hassles I experienced) with a GTX-760, which was natively supported. After the card arrived, all I did was put Lilu.kext and Whatevergreen.kext (latest versions) in /EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/Other and in clover configurator made sure radeon_deinit was checked.. It booted right into OSX very quickly. Video was very snappy with no lag. I promptly updated without even watching the machine. No hiccups. I had to edit nothing, fiddled with nothing. It just worked with a couple of kexts in the right place.
Soooooo ... those seeking a truly compatible card, this is really close and WAY more convenient than the Nvidia cards at the moment. So for the record, that specific card works really well. I'll try to run some benchmark tests. I don't even know which ones are the most meaningful. So it may take a little time, but so far I'm sold.
Initially I did not have radeon_deinit checked in the clover Graphics options. The video screen would not wake up from sleep. Once checked in Clover Configurator and the config.plist file was saved, display sleep and sleep in general seemed to work fine.
Test computer specs:
GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5
Intel i7 6700K
64Gb RAM
RX580 as listed above
Samsung Evo 840 SSD
NOTE: I have not also tried this on a Sapphire Pulse RX580 and it worked exactly as planned. And for anyone wanting more specific steps on how I did this, they are listed a few posts down this thread.
So I ordered a Powercooler Red Devil Golden RX580 with 8Gb of RAM. I installed High Sierra 10.13.2 (I wanted to upgrade to see what hassles I experienced) with a GTX-760, which was natively supported. After the card arrived, all I did was put Lilu.kext and Whatevergreen.kext (latest versions) in /EFI/EFI/Clover/kexts/Other and in clover configurator made sure radeon_deinit was checked.. It booted right into OSX very quickly. Video was very snappy with no lag. I promptly updated without even watching the machine. No hiccups. I had to edit nothing, fiddled with nothing. It just worked with a couple of kexts in the right place.
Soooooo ... those seeking a truly compatible card, this is really close and WAY more convenient than the Nvidia cards at the moment. So for the record, that specific card works really well. I'll try to run some benchmark tests. I don't even know which ones are the most meaningful. So it may take a little time, but so far I'm sold.
Initially I did not have radeon_deinit checked in the clover Graphics options. The video screen would not wake up from sleep. Once checked in Clover Configurator and the config.plist file was saved, display sleep and sleep in general seemed to work fine.
Test computer specs:
GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5
Intel i7 6700K
64Gb RAM
RX580 as listed above
Samsung Evo 840 SSD
NOTE: I have not also tried this on a Sapphire Pulse RX580 and it worked exactly as planned. And for anyone wanting more specific steps on how I did this, they are listed a few posts down this thread.
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