pastrychef's Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming (WI-FI AC) build w/ i9-9900K + AMD 6600 XT

[pastrychef]

I just ran a Geekbench 5 Metal Score benchmark to compare my OC and Clover EFI and it seems like that the radeonboost.kext is not properly working with OC. First of all, the boot process with OC gets stuck once I remove the radeonboost.kext, and the metal score with radeonboost.kext in clover scores 88000, without it scores 50.000. In OC it scores 50.000 with the radeonboost.kext (without I cannot try). I use the iMac19,1 in both settings and your latest EFI folders (with the USB modifcation, see above).

Does anyone experience the same?

Around 50,000 sounds about right for a Vega. Here are my Vega 56 results.



My Radeon VII can only get 80,000 on Metal.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

Around 50,000 sounds about right for a Vega. Here are my Vega 56 results.
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My Radeon VII can only get 80,000 on Metal.
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I get around 88000 with my vega 56 AND the radeonboost.kext with Clover boot loader. I've read this from others as weill. As soon as I delete the radeonboost.kext I get the same result as you - around 50000. I thought this is what the radeonboost.kext does.

What is power play?

My temps should be fine, but I will da another test later to be sure.

 

[pastrychef]

I get around 88000 with my vega 56 AND the radeonboost.kext with Clover boot loader. I've read this from others as weill. As soon as I delete the radeonboost.kext I get the same result as you - around 50000. I thought this is what the radeonboost.kext does.

What is power play?

My temps should be fine, but I will da another test later to be sure.

That's an amazing score for a Vega. If the reporting from Geekbench is true, I'd just go back to using Clover.

If you search the Geekbench site, the only systems reporting over 80,000 are MacPro7,1s with "AMD Radeon Pro Vega II" which are closer to Radeon VIIs than Vega 56/64.

macOS vega - Geekbench 5 Compute Search - Geekbench Browser

You can confirm if RadeonBoost is working by looking in System Information > Graphics/Displays.

If the kext is not working correctly, you can consult with the author of the kext here:

Tired of low Geekbench scores? Use RadeonBoost!

OUTDATED. PLEASE DON'T USE THIS KEXT ON ANYTHING LATER THAN CATALINA. THIS KEXT IS NOT BEING MAINTAINED ANYMORE BECAUSE I SWITCHED TO APPLE SILICON MACS Hello everyone! Together with the help of @DSM2.Hackintosh I built a Kext aiming at removing limitations put in place by Apple for PC...

forums.macrumors.com

PowerPlay Tables allows you to overclock and/or adjust the power limits some AMD video cards. The tables can be modified with VGTab created kext or in Device Properties.

AMD PowerPlay - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

That's an amazing score for a Vega. If the reporting from Geekbench is true, I'd just go back to using Clover.

If you search the Geekbench site, the only systems reporting over 80,000 are MacPro7,1s with "AMD Radeon Pro Vega II" which are closer to Radeon VIIs than Vega 56/64.

macOS vega - Geekbench 5 Compute Search - Geekbench Browser

You can confirm if RadeonBoost is working by looking in System Information > Graphics/Displays.
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If the kext is not working correctly, you can consult with the author of the kext here:

Tired of low Geekbench scores? Use RadeonBoost!

OUTDATED. PLEASE DON'T USE THIS KEXT ON ANYTHING LATER THAN CATALINA. THIS KEXT IS NOT BEING MAINTAINED ANYMORE BECAUSE I SWITCHED TO APPLE SILICON MACS Hello everyone! Together with the help of @DSM2.Hackintosh I built a Kext aiming at removing limitations put in place by Apple for PC...

forums.macrumors.com

PowerPlay Tables allows you to overclock and/or adjust the power limits some AMD video cards. The tables can be modified with VGTab created kext or in Device Properties.

AMD PowerPlay - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Well. Thats why I was asking. I get 82152 with radeonboost.kext and my vega56.kext when I boot with clover. As soon as I remove the radeonboost.kext, I then only score 57548. With radeonboost.kext enabled and vega56.kext disabled I get 77345. But that's just a synthetic benchmark. I haven't tried out any real programs.

edit: and in my VBIOS-Version it doesn't say radeonboost.kext but 113-C944A1XT-014

 

[pastrychef]

Well. Thats why I was asking. I get 82152 with radeonboost.kext and my vega56.kext when I boot with clover. As soon as I remove the radeonboost.kext, I then only score 57548. With radeonboost.kext enabled and vega56.kext disabled I get 77345. But that's just a synthetic benchmark. I haven't tried out any real programs.

edit: and in my VBIOS-Version it doesn't say radeonboost.kext but 113-C944A1XT-014

I don't know why you are getting those results. I would ask CMMChris as he's the one who made the RadeonBoost kext.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

I don't know why you are getting those results. I would ask CMMChris as he's the one who made the RadeonBoost kext.

I asked him. By the way, I just booted with your OC bootloader (including the radeonboost.kext), and it doesn't show any VBios Version. Somewhere I read that it has been disabled for Vega 56?

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

Ok, I just wanted to let you know my real life experience with all of the different combinations. Spoiler: I will use Clover with radeonboost.kext enabled, but without the vega56.kext. Here's why:

I rendered a video scene in Davinci Resolve with temporal noise reduction so that the graphic has to do some heavy lifting. The results are:

12:03 minutes with radeonboost.kext and vega56.kext enabled (booted with clover)
12:46 minutes with radeonboost.kext and vega56.kext disabled (bootet with clover)
12:40 minutes booted with OC (which doesn't seem to load neither radeonboost.kext nor vega56.kext)
12:24 minutes with radeonboost.kext enabled and verga56.kext disabled (booted with clover)

I realized that the fan spinning and power consumption was much louder with the vega56.kext enabled, so I decided to go with the clover boot without the vega56.kext. Allthough, to be honest, the differences between all of the results is really minimal, so it doesn't really matter in a real life situation.

 

[pastrychef]

Ok, I just wanted to let you know my real life experience with all of the different combinations. Spoiler: I will use Clover with radeonboost.kext enabled, but without the vega56.kext. Here's why:

I rendered a video scene in Davinci Resolve with temporal noise reduction so that the graphic has to do some heavy lifting. The results are:

12:03 minutes with radeonboost.kext and vega56.kext enabled (booted with clover)
12:46 minutes with radeonboost.kext and vega56.kext disabled (bootet with clover)
12:40 minutes booted with OC (which doesn't seem to load neither radeonboost.kext nor vega56.kext)
12:24 minutes with radeonboost.kext enabled and verga56.kext disabled (booted with clover)

I realized that the fan spinning and power consumption was much louder with the vega56.kext enabled, so I decided to go with the clover boot without the vega56.kext. Allthough, to be honest, the differences between all of the results is really minimal, so it doesn't really matter in a real life situation.

Yes, when you mess with the PowerPlay Tables, Vegas can consume a lot of power.

 

[Nicoras]

Yes, when you mess with the PowerPlay Tables, Vegas can consume a lot of power.

Speaking of tuning, 5700 XT is close. Coming to me in 5 days. Any info you got regarding tuning Navi?

 

[pastrychef]

Speaking of tuning, 5700 XT is close. Coming to me in 5 days. Any info you got regarding tuning Navi?

Just add the "agdpmod=pikera" boot argument.