[Guide] Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Nitro+ with macOS Catalina

[paulkol]

Hey, I got the 5700 XT to work, and I see it during the booting time too. Only problem is, it is 30Hz on 4k only. There is no good resolution (or refresh rate) even if I look ti switchResX app. IS there something I'm missing? I can see that xard in "system info" asRadeon 5700 XT 8GB

 

[coffeeshop]

what what what is going on with the catalina 10.15.5 and rx 5700 xt ?????
I cannot install it, I get an error after the first phase of the installation process.
this is hell.
kext and efi drivers are all up to date using the latest clover version

 

[madvinegar]

After finishing the first stage of the installation, and before the second stage, add this boot argument:

-wegnoegpu

 

[coffeeshop]

reading the opencore guide and it looks like you are right thanks for the tip
so my card is not supported on 10.15.5 ?

 

[elastik]

Can anyone tel me if the Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Nitro+ is Metal compatible? I have to work with adobe Peremiere and After Effects and I will install the card tomorow. But if it is not "Metal" Compatible I will sen it back.

Thanks for the help

 

[slim.jim]

Can anyone tel me if the Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Nitro+ is Metal compatible? I have to work with adobe Peremiere and After Effects and I will install the card tomorow. But if it is not "Metal" Compatible I will sen it back.

Thanks for the help

All 5700 cards should be. Here is the graphics info from my PowerColor RX 5700 XT

 

[slim.jim]

Hey, I got the 5700 XT to work, and I see it during the booting time too. Only problem is, it is 30Hz on 4k only. There is no good resolution (or refresh rate) even if I look ti switchResX app. IS there something I'm missing? I can see that xard in "system info" asRadeon 5700 XT 8GB

Hold the option key and click scaled, check the show low resolutions box, change the refresh rate to 60Hz. You need to make sure both cable and monitor support HDMI 2.0.

 

[madvinegar]

Can anyone tel me if the Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Nitro+ is Metal compatible? I have to work with adobe Peremiere and After Effects and I will install the card tomorow. But if it is not "Metal" Compatible I will sen it back.

Thanks for the help

I have the MSI Radeon RX5700xt Mech Oc 8GB.
It has metal support.
I have made a video with Benchmarks if you want to see.

 

[m+t]

Hold the option key and click scaled, check the show low resolutions box, change the refresh rate to 60Hz. You need to make sure both cable and monitor support HDMI 2.0.

Running OpenCore reduced the amount of issues I had significantly, now runs really smooth.

Tested several HDMI cables (including one rated 8K@60Hz) that only provided 30Hz, no 60Hz.
Using a DisplayPort cable did the trick, now running at 4K@60Hz.

ps. Strangely Linux and even OpenBSD do support 4K@60Hz over HDMI with the same monitor.

 

[m+t]

Can anyone tel me if the Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Nitro+ is Metal compatible?

Can also confirm that System Information states Metal is supported on the Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Nitro+

Metal:    Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily2 v1

Other options
RX 5700 XT works well for games, though in hindsight I wish I returned my RX 5700 XT and got something that performs better for my use cases (Pixelmator, Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve). Upgraded because GeForce was no longer supported in Hackintosh. Pugetsystems has some nice benchmarks and recommendations for After Affects which might help you. Also check the OpenCore GPU buyersguide.