[Success] AMD RX6000 Series working in macOS

[WrathOfThePast]

According to MacRumors, macOS 12.1 beta1 has been released today to developers, and the update enables support for graphics cards that integrate the AMD Radeon 6600XT GPU.

Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Monterey 12.1 to Developers

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Monterey 12.1 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new software coming just a...

www.macrumors.com

I wonder if 6700 XT support is there as well?

More macOS support for big Navi is a good thing.

@dehjomz I will check on my old MacBook later tonight & let you know. Do you know the device-id for the 6700 XT? If not, I’ll scavenge the internet for it.

 

[WrathOfThePast]

unfairvga is a WEG boot arg. Try that.

@Gigamaxx I’ll try it in a little bit. By the way, I found the EFI logs as well & I fixed the problematic errors in that log already. At this point, WEG is the only piece with errors in the debug logs.

 

[CaseySJ]

According to MacRumors, macOS 12.1 beta1 has been released today to developers, and the update enables support for graphics cards that integrate the AMD Radeon 6600XT GPU.

Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Monterey 12.1 to Developers

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Monterey 12.1 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new software coming just a...

www.macrumors.com

I wonder if 6700 XT support is there as well?

More macOS support for big Navi is a good thing.

It would be odd if 6700XT is excluded. Once this is publicly released I'll immediately look here:

 

[CaseySJ]

Does this mean an Apple product with 6600XT is coming soon??

P.S. Just a reminder that discussion of Developer Betas is not permitted. The MacRumors article is in the public domain, but we should not disclose anything here that is under NDA. Just wait a couple of days until it becomes a public beta.

 

[Gigamaxx]

@Gigamaxx I’ll try it in a little bit. By the way, I found the EFI logs as well & I fixed the problematic errors in that log already. At this point, WEG is the only piece with errors in the debug logs.

You have metal, check the IOReg now. One problem could be the Navi plus Navi2 using the same kexts.
If metal is working try Geekbench Compute to see if you have the 6900 as an option.

 

[Gigamaxx]

Does this mean an Apple product with 6600XT is coming soon??

P.S. Just a reminder that discussion of Developer Betas is not permitted. The MacRumors article is in the public domain, but we should not disclose anything here that is under NDA. Just wait a couple of days until it becomes a public beta.

Dream machine Intel 1200 series with Xe graphics support and RX6600XT iMac? I know, its too much to ask for.

 

[trs96]

RX6600XT iMac? I know, its too much to ask for.

It looks like a W6600X will be an option in the 2019 Mac Pro, replacing the W5500X that is offered now. It's not much of an upgrade but it's newer and more energy efficient. Definitely better than the base RP 580X that you get without upgrading the graphics. May mean that an Ice Lake Xeon refresh is in the works too. They haven't forgotten about the cheese grater mark II.

 

[WrathOfThePast]

You have metal, check the IOReg now. One problem could be the Navi plus Navi2 using the same kexts.
If metal is working try Geekbench Compute to see if you have the 6900 as an option.

@Gigamaxx, I saw it in Geekbench a few days ago along with Metal Support in System Information, but it doesn’t give me the option to benchmark it… the IO Reg I sent you was after that discovery, so it's unchanged. However, you bring up a good point, my 5500M & 6900 XT use the same kexts for both graphics and HDMI audio...

I'm installed the 12.1 Beta on my old MacBook Pro to see if they added the device-id for XTXH to the drivers or not. Nonetheless, if it adds 6700 XT support, I have access to one those, so I can try that out to see what IO Reg looks like when it's working (my old Mac supports any eGPU that my current MacBook does). Of course, I can't talk about the results of this or provide the IO Reg till the Public Beta releases, so please let me know when it does. For now, I'm assuming they didn't add XTXH support (even if I did, I don't want to mess with that Beta on my daily driver anyway).

unfairvga is a WEG boot arg. Try that.

I tried it, but the error persists... I looked at the WEG documentation and they mention it as a DeviceProperty, not as a boot-arg. However, I'm sure it has a boot-arg variant. Is it "-unfairgva" or "unfairgva" or something else? I tried the former already.

 

[WrathOfThePast]

@dehjomz I will check on my old MacBook later tonight & let you know. Do you know the device-id for the 6700 XT? If not, I’ll scavenge the internet for it.

@dehjomz, never mind... it'd be listed as Navi 22 & the 6600 XT is Navi 23, so I don't need a device-id to check. Let me know when the Public Beta comes out & I'll check for you.

 

[MysticalOS]

@dehjomz, never mind... it'd be listed as Navi 22 & the 6600 XT is Navi 23, so I don't need a device-id to check. Let me know when the Public Beta comes out & I'll check for you.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1454132824471130117

Public beta now out. let the reporting begin