Is XFX Navi Cards safe?

[fravin]

In the past we used to avoid XFX cards, right?

But now, with Navi GPUs, should we be afraid of that?

I'm considering a XFX 5600 XT THICC II Pro and I would love to rear some good news

Will it work?

 

[jaymonkey]

@fravin,


The issue with XFX graphics cards has been widely overstated as in reality it only effected a very few low and mid tear Polaris based dGPU's (RX 540, 550 & 560 I think). The problem was caused by them using a non standard VBIOS which could be resolved by re-flashing the card with a reference VBIOS (usually from an equivalent Sapphire card).

All XFX graphics cards since then such as RX 580 & 590, Vega 56 & 64, Radeon VII and Navi work just fine.

Cheers
Jay

 

[trs96]

it only effected a very few low and mid tier Polaris based dGPU's (RX 540 & RX 550 I think)

It's primarily the RX560s by XFX that won't work with macOS without reflashing the Vbios. This is one reason they are the only 560s left for sale on Amazon at a reasonable price.

 

[fravin]

All XFX graphics cards since then such as RX 580 & 590, Vega 56 & 64, Radeon VII and Navi work just fine.

Thanks Jay!