[Success] AMD RX6000 Series working in macOS

[gonzas144]

Hi. I'm looking to buy a 6600 XT to update my old hackintosh rig (currently with High Sierra and Haswell) and at my local store they have the XFX 6600 XT Speedster Swift 210 quite cheap. Does anyone have any experience with it? It's just a regular 6600 XT?

Thanks

 

[Edhawk]

@gonzas144 your might want to have a read of this post if you are contemplating purchasing and XFX RX6600.

[Success] XFX RX 6600 XT graphics card in Monterey 12.2.1

Although graphics cards assembled by XFX have negative comments in Hackintosh forums by having custom BIOS that can be more problematic for macOS that of other brands, I have installed a XFX QICK 308 AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8GB in Monterey 12.2.1 and the result has been excellent, installation was...

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[jamesfawcett]

Has anyone had any success with SSDT-BRG0.aml on Ventura? Mine worked perfectly on Big Sur and Monterey, but I can't get any graphical output under Ventura.

Just wondering if anyone is working on that (or had any success?)

 

[ramazarusx]

Before when I opened Blender only 1 GPU was showing. After correcting the issue now shows 2 GPUs.

What correction if you don't mind me asking?

 

[c-o-pr]

Glad to hear it! No other changes are necessary.

Incidentally, someone just pointed me to this kext, which I haven’t tried myself, but it looks interesting in case you’d like to monitor GPU temp.

Releases · aluveitie/RadeonSensor

Monitoring Radeon GPU temperature on macOS. Contribute to aluveitie/RadeonSensor development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

I'm using RadeonSensor with 6600xt and it works just like you'd hope

 

[anmac1789]

Which AMD graphics card will be needed for running ventura out of the box ? Is it still the AMD RX 580/570 series or AMD 6600/6800/6900 along with their XT versions ?

 

[ori69]

Which AMD graphics card will be needed for running ventura out of the box ? Is it still the AMD RX 580/570 series or AMD 6600/6800/6900 along with their XT versions ?

Yes

 

[Edhawk]

With the release of Ventura will be implementing a new Metal graphics process, Metal 3.

The RX400/500 series of dGPU's only work with Metal 2.
The RX Vega 56/64, RX 5000 and RX 6000 series dGPU's all work with Metal 3.

So if you are looking for a discrete GPU that works best with Ventura the RX Vega or newer would be needed.

 

[trs96]

From the Metal (API) article on Wikipedia:

"Metal 3 introduces MetalFX upscaling framework which renders complex scenes in less time per frame with high-performance upscaling and anti-aliasing."

For anyone gaming in Ventura or working in 3D, it's best to use a Metal 3 compatible GPU.

Which AMD graphics card will be needed for running ventura out of the box ? Is it still the AMD RX 580/570 series or AMD 6600/6800/6900 along with their XT versions ?

Metal 2 GPUs will still work, Metal 3 support is good to have but isn't a requirement for Ventura. RX 400/500 series cards work with no issues. They just lack MetalFX upscaling. I've used a Radeon Pro WX-2100 and an RX 570 with no problems to report. Even UHD630 graphics have Metal 3 support so there are many options for Ventura.

 

[etorix]

I've used a Radeon Pro WX-2100 and an RX 570 with no problems to report.

WX 2100 is Lexa and should NOT work. Is this a typo?
WX 4100 and higher are known to work.