Gigabyte Z490 Vision D (Thunderbolt 3) + i5-10400 + AMD RX 580

[CaseySJ]

here are my results so my 6 years old 6600k with vega 56 is twice faster in rendering then I9 10900k z490 with Radeon VII ??? how is this possible. Geekbench 4 with radeon vii and i9900k was with radeonboost.kext and with imac pro 1.1 which gave me rendering time of 3:12 while this machine using this EFI giving me 6:38 minutes of rendering time ? and I tried to install catalina and to see if this is because of big sur and I got almost same results there did not even bother to write it down since it renders very very slow. Something is wrong here for Radeon VII, even card when I am rendering I can not hear fans or nothing like it is using igpu for rendering or something, it is very strange that spending so much money is giving me nothing, and I also had real 2019 i9 Imac but I forgot to do same tests and now I am curious to see same test on the 20.1 i9 real mac

	6600k z170 64GB 3200 Radeon VII	i9 9900k z390 64gb 3200 Vega 56	i9 9900k z390 64gb 3200 Radeon VII	i9 10900K z490 64GB 3200 Radeon VII Imac19.1
Geekbench 5 CPU	1085 4950	1207 8937	1264 9149	1287 11011
Geekbench 5 GPU	38425	55819	74404	46860
Geekbench 4 CPU	5693 20514	6192 37233	6494 37651	6489 46637
Geekbench 4 GPU	141436	158771	220747	139402
Cinebench	2233	4490	4451	6290
Render 8 minutes 4K clip in H.264 in Final Cut	4:08	3:47	3:12	6:38

The CPU scores are fine, including Cinebench, which is CPU-intensive. Only the GPU scores are off. Are you using the same RadeonBoost on the Z490 Vision G?

 

[CaseySJ]

Hello, does it matter if I take the i5 10600KF or 10600K? I mean I'm planning to get the Gigabyte Gaming OC RX 5700 XT so do I really need the Intel UHD 630 GPU to get a hackintosh going?

Not really. But the iGPU is helpful if the card goes kaput for some reason.

Agreed -- given the small price difference between the K and KF, it's better to go with the K because iGPU can be useful in emergencies. Also, macOS will utilize Intel QuickSync on the iGPU.

 

[CaseySJ]

Hi Everyone,

I thought you might like to know that, following on from the information posted here, I've just swapped out the 970 Evo that I was using for the MacOS boot drive with a Western Digital SN750 and the boot delay has totally gone!

Thanks for all your help on solving this issue, this thread rocks

Glad to hear it. For the sake of accuracy, you mean that you replaced the Samsung 970 EVO or the 970 EVO Plus?

 

[CaseySJ]

Thanks Looking at the newegg listing I couldnt tell if their were SATA ports or not.

The motherboard has 6 SATA ports, but depending on which NVMe M.2 slots you occupy, some of those 6 SATA ports become unusable. Please see the spoiler in Step 5 of Post 1 of this thread.

 

[lcrl]

The motherboard has 6 SATA ports, but depending on which NVMe M.2 slots you occupy, some of those 6 SATA ports become unusable. Please see the spoiler in Step 5 of Post 1 of this thread.

Thank you. So As I read the chart there even if all three M2 slots are used SATA3.1, 3.2 and 3.2 are available?

 

[CaseySJ]

Thank you. So As I read the chart there even if all three M2 slots are used SATA3.1, 3.2 and 3.2 are available?

If you use only PCIe NVMe SSDs in those three M.2 slots (not SATA M.2 SSDs) then the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th SATA ports are usable. These are labeled SATA3-1, SATA3-2, SATA3-3.

 

[Doymilk]

What are your Microphone and Output settings?

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That's extremely embarrassing; I was looking in Preferences.
Somehow it had set itself to 'Background Music', whatever that is.
Sorry for the simple question, but thanks for your help!

 

[Diorama]

The CPU scores are fine, including Cinebench, which is CPU-intensive. Only the GPU scores are off. Are you using the same RadeonBoost on the Z490 Vision G?

yes, CPU is fine. GPU is not and rendering time in Final Cut. I tried with RadeonBoost no difference. Remember that on z390 using 1.1 increased my score cinebench to 220k from 180k with 19.1 and now is hardly 130k. I just connected VEGA 56 and got 129k and rendering was also minut faster but not close to 3 minutes like before. So in my case it was better that I stayed with z390 and i9 9900k since I use this mostly in Final Cut

 

[CaseySJ]

yes, CPU is fine. GPU is not and rendering time in Final Cut. I tried with RadeonBoost no difference. Remember that on z390 using 1.1 increased my score cinebench to 220k from 180k with 19.1 and now is hardly 130k. I just connected VEGA 56 and got 129k and rendering was also minut faster but not close to 3 minutes like before. So in my case it was better that I stayed with z390 and i9 9900k since I use this mostly in Final Cut

If you're using the RadeonBoost kext, please type this in Terminal (on Z490 Vision G):

kextstat | grep -v apple

Do you see the kext listed in the output?

 

[sweetphreak]

Hi again! I have to say I´m quite happy with my working hackintosh setup. However, I´d like to make it dual boot with windows now. How should I do it? Is there any guide you´d recommend? Any opencore settings I have to take into account?
I just tried creating a USB installer for windows with the rsync -wha command in terminal, I boot into windows but then I got stuck trying to install. I got an error when I selected the windows drive.