Radeon Compatibility Guide - ATI/AMD Graphics Cards

hylkepylke · Dec 16, 2019

Just chiming in: when I started building my new setup, I read some stuff about the Gigabyte RX Vega 64 Gaming OC not being the best card for macOS. However, it works flawlessly, I only need WhateverGreen, and I have one of the fastest AMD cards for my hack setup now. I haven't tested all the ports yet, but at least one of the three HDMI ports and one of the three DP ports work. When I move, I might want to test a proper multi monitor setup.

DevilMatt84 · Dec 20, 2019

Hi guys I’m using Asus Strix 5700xt end everything works fine but when I’ve try to render a video with fcpx seems like the computer don’t uses max gpu acceleration as you can see in the picture.
anyone can help me with that ? Thank you

intel 8700K
Asus Strix z390-E
Asus Strix 5700XT

jaymonkey · Dec 20, 2019

DevilMatt84 said:
Hi guys I’m using Asus Strix 5700xt end everything works fine but when I’ve try to render a video with fcpx seems like the computer don’t uses max gpu acceleration as you can see in the picture.

@DevilMatt84,

Thats pretty normal, FCPX only uses the GPU for rendering effects and transitions, it is not used for transcoding.
See this thread for a more in depth discussion on it :-

Vega Hardware Accelaration

Hi everyone I am coming to you looking for advice. I´ve used to have an Nvidia GTX980 and since it is no longer supported on newer macOS versions I´ve sold it and bought an AMD Vega 64 looking forward to learning and take advantage of it on FCPX. I´ve been exporting h.264 files with it but it...

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Try running the BruceX test as detailed in Post #2 which will prove the FCPX is using the GPU when needed.

Cheers
Jay

neilj · Dec 21, 2019

Have : Catalina 10.15 running on Asus Z390A Prime motherboard, i5 coffee lake 9400F (no integrated graphics), NVMe Kingston 250 Gb storage with nvidia 460gtx (nv_disable=1).

Want to upgrade the nvidia fermi card with an AsRock Radeon rx580 card if it works with my rig.

Q. Does the ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon Rx 580 8Gb work out the box on Catalina with hardware acceleration on my setup (z390a, i5 coffee lake with no integrated graphics) ? I have heard to stay clear of AsRock gpus for mojave,catalina.

Thanks.

RGDDJ21 · Dec 26, 2019

Sapphire Radeon Nitro R9 390 8GB GDDR5 Tri-X OC PCIe Graphics Card is completely for Catalina?

Scott1204 · Jan 5, 2020

pastrychef said:
Ah yes!! I completely forgot about how the T2 factors in... That makes perfect sense! Thank you!

Hey Pastrychef, I have your setup and hardware (9900K, Radeon VII, Mac 1,1, etc.) & wanted to try enabling the IGPU to see if I could replicate the improvements in HEVC exports. After turning it back on in BIOS, the system no longer boots past the Apple logo. I think I’m missing a setting... maybe inject Intel in Clover? Any ideas?

H264 exports quickly in FCPX but HEVC takes as much as 15mn for a 2mn Clip which isn’t right considering the hardware. What’s strange is I have the newest versions of FCPX and Compressor that let me select the VII in preferences.

pastrychef · Jan 5, 2020

Scott1204 said:
Hey Pastrychef, I have your setup and hardware (9900K, Radeon VII, Mac 1,1, etc.) & wanted to try enabling the IGPU to see if I could replicate the improvements in HEVC exports. After turning it back on in BIOS, the system no longer boots past the Apple logo. I think I’m missing a setting... maybe inject Intel in Clover? Any ideas?

H264 exports quickly in FCPX but HEVC takes as much as 15mn for a 2mn Clip which isn’t right considering the hardware. What’s strange is I have the newest versions of FCPX and Compressor that let me select the VII in preferences.

No. Inject Intel isn't the answer.

Please post your EFI.

dim78 · Jan 5, 2020

hi im having trouble finding my frame buffer, in step 2 you say Run redsock_bios_decoder. This will give you the encoder ID and transmitter ID. now this step is assuming that you already know how to use redsock bios decoder because you dont just run it to get the results. i have found no documentation on how to use it and i have tried running it with the bios after it in terminal but no luck. could someone please elaborate on how to use it. thankyou

jaymonkey · Jan 5, 2020

DevilMatt84 said:
When I’ve try to render a video with fcpx seems like the computer don’t uses max gpu acceleration

@DevilMatt84,

FCPX will only use the dGPU to render effects and transitions (basically anything that can make use of tile based rendering), it is not used for transcoding, the same is true for just about all Video editing software unless a specific hardware codec accelerator is used such as the RED Rocket card or the new Apple afterburner card.

If you want to see this for yourself run the BruceX video encode test project :-

Graphics Test: Bruce X

In order to help users who plan on using Final Cut Pro X (FCP) to edit video, this is a benchmark that has been designed to test your GPU and because FCP is Open CL based it should preference AMD cards over Nvidia. So here are the instructions: Step 1 Download the XML file Step 2 Open...

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That project has no source video, it comprises of nothing but effects and transitions so is dGPU heavy.

Edit: Opps sorry, i did not notice that i already answered this in a previous post, please ignore.

Cheers
Jay

glofter1 · Jan 5, 2020

Scott1204 said:
Hey Pastrychef, I have your setup and hardware (9900K, Radeon VII, Mac 1,1, etc.) & wanted to try enabling the IGPU to see if I could replicate the improvements in HEVC exports. After turning it back on in BIOS, the system no longer boots past the Apple logo. I think I’m missing a setting... maybe inject Intel in Clover? Any ideas?

H264 exports quickly in FCPX but HEVC takes as much as 15mn for a 2mn Clip which isn’t right considering the hardware. What’s strange is I have the newest versions of FCPX and Compressor that let me select the VII in preferences.