Gigamaxx
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- GIGABYTE X470 Arous Gaming 7 WiFi
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- Ryzen R9 3900X
- Graphics
- RX 480
- Mac
I picked up a PowerColor AMD RX 590 Red Devil and it works! Device ID in Clover is listed as 0x67DF1002. The card list in about this Mac as "Radeon Polaris". Good news for those looking to upgrade from older R9 series cards or older.
Benchmarks are definitely higher and during the benches the backplate was warm but not really hot so cooling seems to be working well for this card.
***Update: Zlei tested a Sapphire RX 590 and it didn't work. However kikkerr4 tested the RX 590 Nitro+ and it is working, I am testing a XFX RX 590 Fatboy and it is not working either. It looks like PowerColor and Sapphire Nitro+ are the only compatible cards listed working so far.
Update 2: I edited the WEG kext to show RX 590 instead of Polaris. To test use lilu and WEG kexts and determine what RX your system determines. RX 480 or RX 580 etc... Next switch out the WEG kext provided below that matches your definition.
WEG RX 590 .zip
Benchmarks are definitely higher and during the benches the backplate was warm but not really hot so cooling seems to be working well for this card.
***Update: Zlei tested a Sapphire RX 590 and it didn't work. However kikkerr4 tested the RX 590 Nitro+ and it is working, I am testing a XFX RX 590 Fatboy and it is not working either. It looks like PowerColor and Sapphire Nitro+ are the only compatible cards listed working so far.
Update 2: I edited the WEG kext to show RX 590 instead of Polaris. To test use lilu and WEG kexts and determine what RX your system determines. RX 480 or RX 580 etc... Next switch out the WEG kext provided below that matches your definition.
WEG RX 590 .zip
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