Does a Gigabyte Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt card work in GA Z170X UD5 on Ventura?

[bhuether]

Hi, I have Ventura running on a GA Z170Z UD5 board. The board has support for a Gigabyte Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt 3 add on card. The motherboard manual says

"THB_C (Thunderbolt™ Add-in Card Connector)This connector is for a GIGABYTE Thunderbolt™ add-in card"

And on Gigabyte site regarding the card I see my motherboard listed as supported.

But on the driver page https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GC-ALPINE-RIDGE-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver it only shows Windows support.

Under system properties I see this entry for USB 3.1 controller: AppleUSBXHCIAR. I understand that is an Alpine Ridge Controller. Maybe that controller is both for USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt 3 and the Gigabyte add on card could work on Mac out of the box?

Also, I use 18.3 symbios as I have headless iGPU and dGPU RX 480, for what it is worth.


thanks

 

[Edhawk]

Read this thread, see if the answer you need is present.

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Once you get your TB card working it should work in any version of macOS, including Ventura.

 

[bhuether]

Ok, thanks will check that out