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My experience of switching from Nvidia to AMD

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Just want to share my experience moving from Nvidia GTX970 to AMD RX580 on my hack.
It was actually a more straightforward and easier than I expected.

1. Remove the NVIDIA Web Driver - it has a built in uninstall
2. Make sure you have both Lilu and WhateverGreen in the kext/other directory
3. Set IGPU in the BIOS to either ON or AUTO (not OFF)
4. Set the GPU priority in the BIOS to PCIe

Then reboot, and everything works

Nice. Do you game on that setup bro? I am in a similar position. Just ordered a Sapphire Pulse 580 8gb (From a GTX 960) and I have a 6700 CPU. Hoping to get back into PC gaming, hope it will run decent.
 
Hello, I want to switch from Nvidia to AMD and buy RX580 8gb, but there are many models of RX580 8gb. Which model RX580 8gb does it work OOB?

My rig for photo editing.
Os: Sierra 10.12.6
Motherboard: Gigabyte z170x gaming 7
Cpu: Intel Core i7-6700K, 4.0GHz, Skylake, 8MB, Socket 1151‎
Current gpu: Gigabyte geforce gtx 970 g1 gaming 4gb
Two Dell, 2k and 4k monitors
Thank you.
 
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Can you confirm that you are getting hardware acceleration since switching to the RX580?
 
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