GPU recommendation for the future, please

[Regtom]

Not tested on a Hackintosh, but interesting spec comparisons on the RX560 vs GTX1050. Overall, the 1050 just outperforms the 560 by a few percentage points. But also uses more energy overall.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1430-radeon-rx-560-vs-geforce-gtx-1050/page8.html

That said, I agree with Brianm801 and Shuhung that avoiding the web drivers might be nice to try. But it looks as though the RX560 wasn't plug and play this summer. Has native support been added in later updates to High Sierra?

(I recall once seeing a list of supported GPUs, maybe for Mavericks, that was just "Any NVIDIA GPU after this version" and now it seems there are so many which are, but not natively, but they work, but you may have issues. Anyone know of a simple list of natively supported GPU? I just spent half an hour digging to no avail. Most everything references eGPU support, which isn't the same as what the Mac Pro would support.

 

[Stork]

See my post here > https://www.tonymacx86.com/posts/1631849/

 

[mitch_de]

Thanks!
But for me it doenst matter OOB or not - it does only matter runs NON OOB with LILU+WEG like RX 560 - + (perhaps dev id patch in AMD driver) before i buy the card.

 

[Brianm801]

What about AMD RX 550? For me,i want less power consumtion than RX 560 - i use now Nvidia GT 1030 (very less watt, fast for that 30 watt! - working good but future + hassle with Webdrivers = think about 50 Watt RX 550...)

The 560 is only 60W (doesn't even require/have a PCIE power connector). It's also only ~$20 more... get the RX 560.

 

[Brianm801]

Aslo.. just FYU: Lilu & WhateverGreen are not required anymore with Clover 4296+ and option RadeonDeInit=YES.

 

[mitch_de]

The 560 is only 60W (doesn't even require/have a PCIE power connector). It's also only ~$20 more... get the RX 560.

The RX 560 is 80 Watt Only the RX 550 has 55-60 Watt..
I think about buying RX 560 - the 550 seems to be unusable on OS X.

PS: Found that there are some RX 560D Modell - same gpu as 560 but disabled some of the gpu compute units (896 vs 1024)- saves some watts. A bit slower than non D but even faster than RX 550 i think. EDIT: Its an umnamed RX 460 for cheap markets like china. Comes up to europa this time...
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-RX-560D-vs-Radeon-RX-560

 

[Smallersen]

To contribute something to the discussion:
I have tested a 1060 6GB, but it performed quite bad in every day performance, video playback, Photoshop, Lightroom were not satisfying.
Now I got a RX 580 8GB, which is much better in every day performance - it has native drivers.

I would recommend AMD in the moment for graphics.

Just: 1060 consumes 8 watt in idle, RX 580 should consume 14 watt - but in reality 580 consumes 30 watt (!) more in my system. So the official consumption values are not necessary valid in a Hackintosh.

 

[Regtom]

Just want to add a quick update. Tested the GTX 1050 with the most up to date Sierra drivers and cannot get dual screens working. Contacted NVIDIA, who simply said, "Not designed for a Mac" and refused to even speak with me. Going to return the card and pick up the RX 560 to see if that works OOB.

 

[zlei]

i switched to rx580 and it run perfectly with clover injecting

 

[Regtom]

Finally have my new RX560 installed. Picked up an MSI RAdeon RX560 OC Edition with 4gb. I kept the GTX 1050 around just to I could run all three cards through Geekbench OpenCL benchmarking and am reporting the scores for anyone who comes across this thread (knowing benchmarks are only a tool and don't represent performance when gaming or working, but it is what I have):

EVGA Geforce GTX 650 (02g-p4-2651-kr): Geekbench score of 17907 (more details below)
https://www.evga.com/products/Specs/GPU.aspx?pn=e69a3e0d-61f9-4ac2-ba37-0f0215bf42b3

Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050 2GB (GV-N1050OC-2GL): Geekbench score of 64071 (more details below)
http://www.gigabyte.us/Graphics-Card/GV-N1050OC-2GL#kf

MSI RX560 AERO ITX OC 4GB: Geekbench score of 75696 (more details below)
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/Radeon-RX-560-AERO-ITX-4G-OC.html

So the RX560 (note it is an overclocked version of the chipset) really is outperforming the the 1050 with Geekbench. I also ran LOTRO and ran through Bree at Extra High settings, though the game prefers Ultra High for both the 1050 and 560, and did notice a decided improvement (Bree is really poorly rendered and tends to cause a lot of hanging at odd times in my experience) keeping the framerate near or above 30 all the time. I haven't set up dual monitor as yet, which may be the real kicker as I could not get the 1050 to output the second monitor so wish me luck.

And thanks for the advice. The RX560 does look to be the better card.

GTX 650 Full OpenCL performance scores: 17907
Sobel
41022
1.81 Gpixels/sec

Histogram Equalization
17371
542.8 Mpixels/sec

SFFT
6495
16.2 Gflops

Gaussian Blur
24063
421.5 Mpixels/sec

Face Detection
5633
1.65 Msubwindows/sec

RAW
76912
744.5 Mpixels/sec

Depth of Field
46990
136.5 Mpixels/sec

Particle Physics
4664 737.5 FPS

GTX 1050 Full OpenCL performance scores: 64071

Sobel
129168
5.69 Gpixels/sec

Histogram Equalization
105861
3.31 Gpixels/sec

SFFT
12847
32.0 Gflops

Gaussian Blur
77366
1.36 Gpixels/sec

Face Detection
31947
9.33 Msubwindows/sec

RAW
337054
3.26 Gpixels/sec

Depth of Field
158142
459.4 Mpixels/sec

Particle Physics
12271
1939.9 FPS

RX560 Full OpenCL performance scores: 75696


Sobel
167321
7.37 Gpixels/sec

Histogram Equalization
80501
2.52 Gpixels/sec

SFFT
11361
28.3 Gflops

Gaussian Blur
147426
2.58 Gpixels/sec

Face Detection
17795
5.20 Msubwindows/sec


RAW
533430
5.16 Gpixels/sec

Depth of Field
202488
588.2 Mpixels/sec

Particle Physics
24859
3930.0 FPS