Converting from nVidia to AMD

[Spunky03]

Okay, I have finally given up on nVidia drivers for Mojave and purchased a Gigabyte AORUS RX 580 to replace my Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050Ti. My question is are there any documented steps to doing this? Since the AMD card is natively supported by High Sierra and Mojave do I just...

Uninstall the nVidia Web Drivers
Reboot to make sure system all good at lower resolution
Shutdown and swap the graphics cards
Power up and enjoy

Is it really that easy?

Any Clover settings I should make sure to set or unset?

Thanks...

 

[craighazan]

Okay, I have finally given up on nVidia drivers for Mojave and purchased a Gigabyte AORUS RX 580 to replace my Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050Ti. My question is are there any documented steps to doing this? Since the AMD card is natively supported by High Sierra and Mojave do I just...

Uninstall the nVidia Web Drivers
Reboot to make sure system all good at lower resolution
Shutdown and swap the graphics cards
Power up and enjoy

Is it really that easy?

Any Clover settings I should make sure to set or unset?

Thanks...

You just plug it in and that’s it. Nothing else to do.

 

[xxkenji]

@Spunky03 how things worked for you? It was just that simple?

 

[jaymonkey]

My question is are there any documented steps to doing this? Since the AMD card is natively supported by High Sierra and Mojave

@Spunky03,

If your RX 580 is based on the AMD reference design then it might just be a case of uninstalling the Nvidia WebDrivers and installing the new card. However due to differences with a PC's ACPI tables vs a Mac's there are always some fixes that are needed such as ensuring the AMD GPU has the correct ACPI device name.

For most users installing Lilu + WhatEverGreen (WEG) is the easy way to ensure that the AMD GPU ACPI fixes are applied and the correct device properties injected into the IOREG which is covered in the Lilu + Plug-in's guide :-

An iDiot's Guide To Lilu and its Plug-ins

An iDiot's Guide To Lilu and its Plug-in's Last Update: 22nd Jan 2021 (Add note about OpenCore config.plist modifications) About this Guide Note: This guide was written when Clover was the boot loader of choice as such the config.plist examples in this guide are mostley Clover specific ... if...

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Most issues occur with non-reference design AMD GPU's and tend to be with the number and types of monitor ports.

Cheers
Jay

 

[Spunky03]

@Spunky03 how things worked for you? It was just that simple?

Yes, it really was that simple.

The only thing to add is that before you shutdown do what jaymonkey suggested and add Lilu and WhatEverGreen to your EFI kexts before you shutdown to swap the cards.

 

[slim.jim]

That’s pretty much all I did. I updated to Catalina with my GTX 970 installed. Then swapped cards and removed the Web Drivers.