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Radeon Compatibility Guide - ATI/AMD Graphics Cards

ARRRGGGGHHHH!!

OK: thank you for saving me. I've got a return/refund approved on the card.

So: if I want to continue to move forward, then I take it I need to build a new hackintosh (or pray that Nvidia releases drivers?)

Any suggestions for what mobo/CPU/card -will- work with, and accelerate, FCP? I'm more a creative than a gamer...

Thanks again. Not the news I wanted, but I appreciate your response.
Cannot really make a recommendation (otherwise someone will go "ARRRGGGGHHHH!!" when it does not work :rolleyes:).
Do your own research first, don't just listen to folks who say "it's works OOB...it's fine for me...etc" as their usage and needs may be completely different to yours. Unless then can categorically prove (systematic repeatable tests) that it does what you need, then be vary of the claims. AMD RX580 is perfectly good GPU for the the GUI but has issues for encoding/decoding certain codes.

Vega seems to be better supported in terms of encoding/decoding.
But so are latest Intel CPU's + IGPU's. If you can afford it, look at latest i7's & i9's and latest Xeon's - specially the one's used in real iMac Pros.
Even on real Mac's, they use the GPU for GUI and rendering together with the CPU, and their own custom T2 chip for encoding.

I have come to a conclusion that I need to move to a newer system after the holidays.
 
Thanks. Sounds like sage advice. Like you, I've had good service and performance from my setup (which runs all day, just fine at 4.6) but as you say, perhaps it's time to move on. First glance, it looks like it will cost $1200 or so.

Anyway, thanks again. Good luck to us both! :)
 
Sorry about this, but one last question. Just rereading your comments and this struck me "With the latest Mojave release, Apple have removed h/w codec feature of the RX 580."

So, if Nvidia has stopped offering drivers and Apple removed the h/w codec in Mojave are you saying that there is basically No Way to use a hackintosh with FCPX moving forward? IOW, I need to go back to "real" Apple hardware?

There's no rush on my part, as I assume I can just stick with what I've got for a couple of years, but I make at least part of my living editing video... and etc etc...

Thanks.
 
So, if Nvidia has stopped offering drivers and Apple removed the h/w codec in Mojave are you saying that there is basically No Way to use a hackintosh with FCPX moving forward? IOW, I need to go back to "real" Apple hardware?
There are workarounds (may be not ideal). Using powerful latest CPU's and very fast NVMe SSD's, will allow FCPX to use the hack without utilising the full benefits the AMD GPU.

Maybe if there's enough backlash from Apple fanboys who use eGPU's (with similar problems now), then maybe Apple will rethink and fix the s/w temporarily (before moving on in the few years time to their own fully custom chip).
 
Hey Stork you have a great system there.
The discussion we are having is related to FCPX and AMD GPU support.
How are your experiences/results with FCPX usage on that system ?
Unfortunately, I don't use FCPX so I can't help you out with FCPX. My systems are for general purpose computing and personal audio recording.
 
Unfortunately, I don't use FCPX so I can't help you out with FCPX. My systems are for general purpose computing and personal audio recording.
That's OK.
AMD GPU's are great for general purpose computing (with no issues about web-drivers, etc., like NVIDIA) and mainly work OOB as GUI.
The issues with the AMD GPU's are more to do with specific Apps that encode/decode video that macOS does not handle very well (read bugs). In fact Apple have (with the latest update) now disabled h/w encode/decode for some of the AMD GPU's.
 
That's OK.
AMD GPU's are great for general purpose computing (with no issues about web-drivers, etc like NVIDIA) and mainly work OOB as GUI.
The issues with the AMD GPU's are more to do with specific Apps that encode/decode video that macOS does not handle very well (read bugs). In fact Apple have (with the latest update) now disabled h/w encode/decode for some of the AMD GPU's.

I’ve been reading up a bit in this and the same problem was happening in Windows and users had to remove and update to new AMD drivers. So AMD launched RX cards without driver support and then corrected it for Windows apps.
This really is ironic seeing as how Apple has said the new Metal2 is supposed to use the graphics cards more effectively and take the load off of the CPUs. But this encoding/decoding issue is contrary to that stated goal.
There may be another aspect to it as well. Apps for macOS being created for all users and many Macs don’t have a dedicated GPU so maybe they just focused on the Intel side because all macs currently support have this in common?
 
Guess this the correct thread for this.

I just purchased and installed:
XFX Radeon RX 570 DirectX 12 RX-570P8DFD6 8GB 256-Bit DDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card

First the Clover boot menu is corrupted. I can just make out the icons on the boot loader screen. This is on my Z270X Hack, with i5-7600K CPU on ASUS ITX motherboard. I dual boot on this machine.

I just removed the NVIDIA GTX 950 that I've used on the system for a year, having given up hope of being able to upgrade to Mojave. I was on 10.13.6 at the very latest security update, having just fixed the NVIDIA driver on that update.

So it starts with a corrupted Clover splash screen. I booted to Windows 10 and installed AMD Radeon drivers. Seemed to work OK.

I just finished updating my GA-Z97X to use a Gigabyte Radeon 580 8GB card, that went smoothly or as expected.

Using that knowledge gained, I turned OFF the Nvidia Injection in Clover on the Z270X machine, and attempted to boot, using this XFX RX 570 card.

Black screen. :rolleyes:

I came back to this thread, re-read post #1 and added RedeonDeInit = true to config.plist. Rebooted - all using a USB boot stick so I can make these Clover config.plist changes on my GA_Z97X hack.

Still black screen.

I removed any all all Nvidia references in the config.plist. I can't generate a debug dump on the Z270X as I can't get beyond the black screen. But I have attached the config.plist from the USB stick.

I think I'm in a case where the XFX Radeon RX 570 is incompatible.

Is that the case?
 

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