Buying a Dedicated GPU for your Monterey, Ventura or Sonoma Hackintosh

[hardcorefs]

Just to add....
It's critical to ensure the GPU works with any games you might want to play.
It seems even if the GPU seems to be fully compatible with the OSX version, I have found Graphical corruption.

Missing /un-renderable areas. (bit of an issue, when you can see thru areas of the game and any other players.)
Sort of like an inbuilt "cheat" mode, and one that is completely undetectable.

 

[stator]

That's if one is a gamer. If I was, the macos platform would not be not one of my choices.

 

[hardcorefs]

Not really, there are multiple uses for a GPU that would be affected, it's just that games show the problems quickly.
We have seem the same issues on 3D & tech drawings.
Previously we put together such systems for design work, only to have them fail at some level..
Why buy Apple Mn... when an intel can out perform them right?

 

[Jamesmykil]

The video guide says to avoid XFX branded cards.

Does the xfx rx 580 work?

 

[Feartech]

Does the xfx rx 580 work?

try it or avoid it

 

[trs96]

Does the xfx rx 580 work?

The main problem (with any brand 580) is that the vBIOS was modded for crypto mining. If that's the case it won't work until you reflash the original vBIOS. So if you're buying used, ask the seller how it was used. Hopefully they'll be honest.

 

[trs96]

Interesting to see that Amazon recommends a hackintosh friendly bundle for new Z690 and Z790 builds. The Corsair RAM and WD SN770 should work fine with this newer hardware used as a dual boot or just macOS Sonoma system.

This is the best value proposition i.e. the best amount of RAM and SSD storage (for most use cases) to go with your WX 4100.

 

[trs96]

AMD 7000 series cards sales are tanking
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Sales of AMD 7000 cards are not going well at Newegg. They always got a large number of purchases from the Hackintosh community when Apple still supported AMD GPUs. Gamers prefer Nvidia cards by a large margin. So Apple has not only hurt Intel by making their own Silicon, it's also made AMD lose a lot of sales. Add to that the market flooded with cheap RX 580 8GB GPUs for low budget gamers and AMD is in trouble.

Not a single AMD 7000 series in the top 4. Only the RX 6600 (hack friendly) makes the list.

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On Amazon too. The MSI RTX 3060 is the perennial best seller. Gamers love the 12GB of Vram. Only $290.

Not a single AMD RX 7000 series card in Amazon's top 25 best seller list. Only the RX 7900 XTX comes in at #26 Just barely ahead of a GT 710. Not good news for AMD or their graphics card partners. Many will likely stop making AMD cards and focus more on Nvidia.

 

[trs96]

The numbers don’t lie, AMD is struggling to sell both its custom and discrete Radeon GPUs. To make matters worse, this decline in sales not only encompasses the past two financial quarters, but applies to year-on-year figures too.

Try as AMD might to break the stranglehold Nvidia has on the GPU market, all of its offerings, from its best graphics cards to more budget-friendly options, are sadly failing to make a significant impact. While this chasmic gap in popularity has been well understood for some time, AMD’s latest financial reports show how much of a problem Radeon is proving for the company’s cash flow.

The biggest decline comes from ‘Gaming’, coming in at a painful 48%.

By itself, this steep decrease is concerning, but paired with the knowledge that this is down 33% from the previous quarter gives further cause for alarm. Suffice to say, Radeon GPU sales have nosedived.

These figures confirm what was partially gleaned by the Steam Hardware Survey, in which the Radeon RX 7900 XTX remains the only current generation graphics card from AMD to earn an individual spot outside of the nebulous ‘Other’ categorization. Even then, its 0.16% is nothing compared to other cards, with even the GeForce RTX 4090 proving more popular than any other AMD GPU.

AMD confirms Radeon GPU sales have nosedived

As part of its Q1 2024 financial report, AMD highlights that a decline in its 'Gaming' revenue is due to lower sales of its Radeon GPUs.

www.pcgamesn.com

 

[dasboot5]

And the idiot gamers keep buying Nvidia crap with melting connectors on cards that are only good as cruise ship anchors they are so large and they are so power inefficient you need an 800 or larger P.S. Playing streamed games is what makes the world go around. Bigger is better where is the Tech? Notttt!!
It is too bad the coders can get these cards working as the 6000 series does as the Hackintosh market base would jump at the chance to have this series in their machines... barring the hot spot problems...