@RandomDSdevel I saw you were asking if the wx7100 was compatible with the Zbook G5 17, did you ever find out?
I'm worried about a possible BIOS whitelist.
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No. Actually, I eventually came to the following conclusions:
- AMD doesn't seem to list a mobile variant of the Radeon Pro WX 7100 on its web site, so I almost wonder if it even exists.
- Even if this card does exist, I have my doubts that it's usable in the HP ZBook 17, be that a G5 or a G6.
- Other sites which do list such a card rate it as being a 130-watt MXM card, which seems…a bit too power-hungry to be reasonable, to put it mildly. I balked somewhat at what that could mean for battery life even though I really wanted to pack the most powerful discrete GPU I could find into my build.
- I wasn't ever able to find a suitable heat sink for that card for either the G5 or the G6.
All that being the case, I'm sticking with the WX 4170 mobile; it's a known-good card that HP even offered as a customize-to-order option for the G5 on their web store. (They
may also mention it in the G6's Maintenance and Service Guide, though the reference isn't specific enough to tell for certain despite the historical odds of it not being anything
but that card.)
I'd recommend you do the same if you want a discrete GPU. (Let me know if you can actually get it working reliably, either exclusively or under graphics switching, before I manage to look into trying my hand at setting one up myself; I've seen on more than a couple places here on the forums that laptops with both integrated and discrete GPUs can be…annoying — and even unstable — to some extent. Seeing the Clover configuration you have for it might help me.) This should serve well enough until I consider upgrading to a newer card. As I may well have expressed before, the Radeon RX 5700M looks nice even though a mobile-workstation variant of it would likely be a better idea, though it is, again, a card beefy enough that would raise concerns about power draw. (According to what I've seen, it's…a
180-watt card.
Shiver…)
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Also what is the Audio codec of the G6? is it the same awful and full of bugs Conexant 8400 that is on the G5?
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I can't boot my machine up and pull this information from it until I've
finally had time* to sit down and torubleshoot/fix my graphics card issue, but HP says on
its relevant specifications page that the G6 has '[a]udio by Bang & Olufsen.' Vague as that is, who knows what
that means…
* Ironically, you'd
think I'd have more free time on my hands during the current worldwide situation, but, alas,
noooooo… 
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And last, the NVME drive that ships with the Zbook G5 is not compatible with OSX and will give you a KP, so I have kept my windows install in it and keep it from mounting on OSX by editing the OSX FSTAB.
Keep in mind as the G6 might have the same
Thanks for the heads-up. As you can tell from what I've posted (originally in my OP and now on
my GitLab repository, as well as possibly in this thread,) though, I originally skimped on storage in my laptop order, getting only the lowest available capacity 2.5" SATA-Ⅲ SSD (256 GiB,) and opted to go for replacing it with an aftermarket 4-TiB 2.5" SATA-Ⅲ Samsung 860 Pro SSD that I managed to purchase at a slight discount instead. I should therefore be all set to use that as an internal drive.
