Radeon Compatibility Guide - ATI/AMD Graphics Cards

[littyboy]

Hoping someone can help me out since I've been out of the hackintosh loop for years.

I built/installed one 5 years ago and want to upgrade my GPU from a GTX 760 to RX 580 Sapphire Pulse. I heard the sapphire pulse works right out of the box with no kexts needed (right?).

I'm thinking all I have to do is upgrade my OS from Mavericks to Mojave? and then replace the GPU?

What's the "easiest" way to get this GPU upgrade going without having to wipe my OS?

 

[jaymonkey]

I heard the sapphire pulse works right out of the box with no kexts needed (right?).

@littyboy,

There are very few GPU's (if any) that work OOB ... A PC's ACPI tables are very different to a Mac's EFI, as such when a GPU is added to a Hackintosh the ACPI device name is usually wrong (EG PEG0 when it should be GFX0).

And depending upon the GPU type certain other MacOS device properties may need to be set to avoid the common black screen on boot issue and display connectors not working.

We generally recommend installing Lilu + WhatEverGreen which will ensure that the RX 580 is configured correctly.

Cheers
Jay

 

[sajjad365]

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[littyboy]

@littyboy,

There are very few GPU's (if any) that work OOB ... A PC's ACPI tables are very different to a Mac's EFI, as such when a GPU is added to a Hackintosh the ACPI device name is usually wrong (EG PEG0 when it should be GFX0).

And depending upon the GPU type certain other MacOS device properties may need to be set to avoid the common black screen on boot issue and display connectors not working.

We generally recommend installing Lilu + WhatEverGreen which will ensure that the RX 580 is configured correctly.

Cheers
Jay

thanks. Would I be able to run the rx 580 in an old macos (el capitan) with the lilu and weg kexts?

Noob question, to install these kexts, I mount the EFI with clover config, then drop them into kexts/other folder?

 

[jaymonkey]

Would I be able to run the rx 580 in an old macos (el capitan) with the lilu and weg kexts?

@littyboy,

Yes that should work, the earliest version of MacOS that Lilu + WEG are listed as being compatible with is El Capitan.

Cheers
Jay

 

[Bustycat]

Has anyone tested Radeon HD 7850 2GB with its HDMI port for macOS Catalina?

Okay I ordered one as a gamble. Let’s see if it can work with macOS nowadays.

 

[Bustycat]

AMD Radeon HD 7850 2 GB (MSI R7850 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC) works well that I could upgrade my office build (GA-H61M-S2PV | i5-2500K) from High Sierra to Catalina smoothly. Only Lilu and WhateverGreen are needed without any specified change to config.plist. The display is connected via HDMI directly.

macOS recognises it as ‘AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB’.

Metal is supported.

 

[wstrohm]

My setup at left has been working perfectly since upgrading to Mojave 10.14.6 about a year ago. BUT, I just updated Lilu and WhateverGreen to the latest versions and guess WHAT? Black screen on boot, after working for several restarts with these new kexts in both /Library/Extensions and EFI/CLOVER/kexts/other. I would like to try reinstalling the previous versions of Lilu and WhateverGreen, but... how do I get onto the Mac OS now? IGFX maybe? Or can someone confirm that their RX 580 works with the latest Lilu and WhateverGreen kexts, so that I can chase other rabbits? Thanks for reading!

 

[Bustycat]

My setup at left has been working perfectly since upgrading to Mojave 10.14.6 about a year ago. BUT, I just updated Lilu and WhateverGreen to the latest versions and guess WHAT? Black screen on boot, after working for several restarts with these new kexts in both /Library/Extensions and EFI/CLOVER/kexts/other. I would like to try reinstalling the previous versions of Lilu and WhateverGreen, but... how do I get onto the Mac OS now? IGFX maybe? Or can someone confirm that their RX 580 works with the latest Lilu and WhateverGreen kexts, so that I can chase other rabbits? Thanks for reading!

They should not be duplicated and the most important feature of WhateverGreen is actually addressing a black screen. You may need to check if something in your Clover conflicts with them.

 

[wstrohm]

They should not be duplicated and the most important feature of WhateverGreen is actually addressing a black screen. You may need to check if something in your Clover conflicts with them.

Do you mean that Lilu and WhateverGreen should not be in both the EFI partition and also in /Library/Extensions? And what could be a conflict with Clover, if Clover was not changed, except for the update of both of those kexts?