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Yes, both non-reference GCN 1.0 cards and all GCN 1.x cards will have to either use RadeonFramebuffer or modify an existing one.
The first option should usually work flawless with GCN 1.0 cards (e.g. 7770[needs Info.plist patch], 7850, 7950, 7970), I did some tests on my own and even read about successful Eyefinity setups (5 or 6 screens from one card).
GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.2 still seems to be in beta stage. Just received a HD 7790 for testing (Bonair, GCN 1.1, aka R7 260 and R7 360). Works fine OOB but driver will crash immediately when attaching a 2nd screen. Will see if a framebuffer patch improves stability.
GCN 1.2 is a little better I guess, because it's already sold in 5K iMac (in contrast to GCN 1.1 - quite surprising this stuff even works).
In my opinion this framebuffer stuff isn't a big issue for Hackintoshs. RadeonFramebuffer does a quite good job, and even if it doesn't you can still patch a framebuffer to match your card. Using Clover this is quite simple, set it and forget it.
Not that easy on a real MacPro though, no bootloader there to handle the kext patching.
The first option should usually work flawless with GCN 1.0 cards (e.g. 7770[needs Info.plist patch], 7850, 7950, 7970), I did some tests on my own and even read about successful Eyefinity setups (5 or 6 screens from one card).
GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.2 still seems to be in beta stage. Just received a HD 7790 for testing (Bonair, GCN 1.1, aka R7 260 and R7 360). Works fine OOB but driver will crash immediately when attaching a 2nd screen. Will see if a framebuffer patch improves stability.
GCN 1.2 is a little better I guess, because it's already sold in 5K iMac (in contrast to GCN 1.1 - quite surprising this stuff even works).
In my opinion this framebuffer stuff isn't a big issue for Hackintoshs. RadeonFramebuffer does a quite good job, and even if it doesn't you can still patch a framebuffer to match your card. Using Clover this is quite simple, set it and forget it.
Not that easy on a real MacPro though, no bootloader there to handle the kext patching.