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[Success] AMD RX6000 Series working in macOS

TheBloke said:
A page or two back in this thread I replied to your messages of yesterday talking about TB4 docks - if you missed that could you take a look? I'd love to know more about what you've tested with regards to DP tunnelling.

In particular, I'm interested to know if there's any way to get two displays from that one USB-C port (extended, not mirrored.)

Thanks
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Hello there, at least one display works with my dock connected to this USB-C port. A 1440P @ 144Hz monitor. I haven't tried connecting two monitors to see whether they both work in macOS big sur, or if only one works. But even if both don't work with the dock, there are still available displayport and hdmi outputs on the card. I also didn't test to see whether sound is also being routed over the USB-c port to the monitor.

I can say that this same thunderbolt4 dock works to drive dual monitors displaying separate images when connected to my macbook. Not sure if the same can happen using the 6800xt's usb-c port in macOS. And any conclusions we draw are seemingly based on an early version of the driver for a "usb" port that doesn't even support usb devices at the moment. A half-baked USB-c port at the moment in macOS, lol. So our assumptions/conclusions on 11.4 beta1 are subject to change.
 
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Alright, it appears that I will likely have to spoof my GPU ID because my 6900XT is the pre-binned version, which has the original ID 37AF instead of 37BF.
Unfortunately I know very little about ACPI-related things. While the Dortania guide has been helpful as always, I'm struggling a bit with figuring out the exact ACPI path of my GPU device because there is a pci-bridge element in the tree, and I have no clue how to model that in my SSDT.

If somebody could point me to some resources that elaborate on how to model these kinds of chains, that would be very much appreciated.

I got as far as this before my wits ran out.

Code: 
DefinitionBlock ("", "SSDT", 2, "DRTNIA", "AMDGPU", 0x00001000)
{
    External (_SB.PC02, DeviceObj)
    External (_SB.PC02.BR2A.SL05, DeviceObj)

    Scope (\_SB.PC02.BR2A.SL05)
    {
        if (_OSI ("Darwin"))
        {
            Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)  // _DSM: Device-Specific Method
            {
                Local0 = Package (0x04)
                {
                    // Where we shove our FakeID
                    "device-id",
                    Buffer (0x04)
                    {
                        0xBF, 0x73, 0x00, 0x00
                    },

                    // Changing the name of the GPU reported, mainly cosmetic
                    "model",
                    Buffer ()
                    {
                        "AMD Radeon 6900 XT"
                    }
                }
                DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                Return (Local0)
            }
        }
    }
    Scope (\_SB.PC02)
    {
        Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
        {
            If (LEqual (Arg0, ToUUID ("a0b5b7c6-1318-441c-b0c9-fe695eaf949b")))
            {
                If (LEqual (Arg1, One))
                {
                    If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
                    {
                        Store (Buffer (One)
                            {
                                 0x03
                            }, Arg4)
                        Return (One)
                    }

                    If (LEqual (Arg2, One))
                    {
                        Return (One)
                    }
                }
            }

            Store (Buffer (One)
                {
                     0x00
                }, Arg4)
            Return (Zero)
        }

    }

}

I'm attaching a shoddy phone picture for the time being until I get a full ioreg dump going.

Edit: Attached IOReg dump.
 

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Gigamaxx said:
Yes, I have 5900x GA x570 with RX 6800 and it’s fine.
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I am trying OpenCore but it only shows 11.2.3 so did you had installed this before and then upgraded via system upgrade to beta ? if not then how to download the 11.4 beta 1 directly ? I tried with gibMacOS-master, downloaded the version but got some warning related translation file missing at the time of copying it to usb :(
 
TheBloke said:
I think most of us only have PCIe 3.0, except for those with AMD systems. But yes I think most of us have a faster CPU.

Your Blackmagic Raw Speed Test result is actually really interesting - only 42 FPS despite you having the same GPU as me, the 6900XT.

@oreoapple I think this is more evidence that the BRST benchmark is bottlenecked. Maybe that 125 FPS limit we both see with our GPUs is CPU or RAM or PCIe or just code limited. If it was a true GPU benchmark, Cyberneticist should be getting a very similar result to ours, but they're getting 1/3 the speed.

So I'm happy to believe that BRST is not representative of the GPU. The question remaining is whether it's representative of Resolve Studio. I hope not! It does only test a very specific thing though, and in a real life scenario the user will likely have multiple GPU operations going on simultaneously (decode/debayer + noise reduction + VFX + etc) and hopefully this will enable more full use of the GPU.
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Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6900 XT
 

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byteminer said:
Alright, it appears that I will likely have to spoof my GPU ID because my 6900XT is the pre-binned version, which has the original ID 37AF instead of 37BF.
Unfortunately I know very little about ACPI-related things. While the Dortania guide has been helpful as always, I'm struggling a bit with figuring out the exact ACPI path of my GPU device because there is a pci-bridge element in the tree, and I have no clue how to model that in my SSDT.

If somebody could point me to some resources that elaborate on how to model these kinds of chains, that would be very much appreciated.

I got as far as this before my wits ran out.

Code: 
DefinitionBlock ("", "SSDT", 2, "DRTNIA", "AMDGPU", 0x00001000)
{
    External (_SB.PC02, DeviceObj)
    External (_SB.PC02.BR2A.SL05, DeviceObj)

    Scope (\_SB.PC02.BR2A.SL05)
    {
        if (_OSI ("Darwin"))
        {
            Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)  // _DSM: Device-Specific Method
            {
                Local0 = Package (0x04)
                {
                    // Where we shove our FakeID
                    "device-id",
                    Buffer (0x04)
                    {
                        0xBF, 0x73, 0x00, 0x00
                    },

                    // Changing the name of the GPU reported, mainly cosmetic
                    "model",
                    Buffer ()
                    {
                        "AMD Radeon 6900 XT"
                    }
                }
                DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                Return (Local0)
            }
        }
    }
    Scope (\_SB.PC02)
    {
        Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
        {
            If (LEqual (Arg0, ToUUID ("a0b5b7c6-1318-441c-b0c9-fe695eaf949b")))
            {
                If (LEqual (Arg1, One))
                {
                    If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
                    {
                        Store (Buffer (One)
                            {
                                 0x03
                            }, Arg4)
                        Return (One)
                    }

                    If (LEqual (Arg2, One))
                    {
                        Return (One)
                    }
                }
            }

            Store (Buffer (One)
                {
                     0x00
                }, Arg4)
            Return (Zero)
        }

    }

}

I'm attaching a shoddy phone picture for the time being until I get a full ioreg dump going.

Edit: Attached IOReg dump.
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I believe you can adjust via device properties too. Use Hackintool to grab the path

Not at my comp so might be a little off but should be something like this

Code: 
DefinitionBlock ("", "SSDT", 2, "DRTNIA", "AMDGPU", 0x00001000)
{
    External (_SB_.PC02.BR2A, DeviceObj)
    External (_SB_.PC02.BR2A.PEGP, DeviceObj)
    External (_SB_.PC02.BR2A.SL05, DeviceObj)

    Scope (\_SB.PC02.BR2A)
    {
        If (_OSI ("Darwin"))
        {
            Scope (SL05)
            {
                Name (_STA, Zero)  // _STA: Status
            }

            Scope (PEGP)
            {
                Device (BRG0)
                {
                    Name (_ADR, Zero)  // _ADR: Address
                    Device (GFX0)
                    {
                        Name (_ADR, Zero)  // _ADR: Address
                        Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)  // _DSM: Device-Specific Method
                        {
                            Local0 = Package (0x04)
                                {
                                    "device-id",
                                    Buffer (0x04)
                                    {
                                         0xBF, 0x73, 0x00, 0x00                           // .s..
                                    },

                                    "model",
                                    Buffer (0x13)
                                    {
                                        "AMD Radeon 6900 XT"
                                    }
                                }
                            DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                            Return (Local0)
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
    {
        If ((Arg0 == ToUUID ("a0b5b7c6-1318-441c-b0c9-fe695eaf949b") /* Unknown UUID */))
        {
            If ((Arg1 == One))
            {
                If ((Arg2 == Zero))
                {
                    Arg4 = Buffer (One)
                        {
                             0x03                                             // .
                        }
                    Return (One)
                }

                If ((Arg2 == One))
                {
                    Return (One)
                }
            }
        }

        Arg4 = Buffer (One)
            {
                 0x00                                             // .
            }
        Return (Zero)
    }
}
 
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byteminer said:
Alright, it appears that I will likely have to spoof my GPU ID because my 6900XT is the pre-binned version, which has the original ID 37AF instead of 37BF.
Unfortunately I know very little about ACPI-related things. While the Dortania guide has been helpful as always, I'm struggling a bit with figuring out the exact ACPI path of my GPU device because there is a pci-bridge element in the tree, and I have no clue how to model that in my SSDT.

If somebody could point me to some resources that elaborate on how to model these kinds of chains, that would be very much appreciated.

I got as far as this before my wits ran out.

Code: 
DefinitionBlock ("", "SSDT", 2, "DRTNIA", "AMDGPU", 0x00001000)
{
    External (_SB.PC02, DeviceObj)
    External (_SB.PC02.BR2A.SL05, DeviceObj)

    Scope (\_SB.PC02.BR2A.SL05)
    {
        if (_OSI ("Darwin"))
        {
            Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)  // _DSM: Device-Specific Method
            {
                Local0 = Package (0x04)
                {
                    // Where we shove our FakeID
                    "device-id",
                    Buffer (0x04)
                    {
                        0xBF, 0x73, 0x00, 0x00
                    },

                    // Changing the name of the GPU reported, mainly cosmetic
                    "model",
                    Buffer ()
                    {
                        "AMD Radeon 6900 XT"
                    }
                }
                DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                Return (Local0)
            }
        }
    }
    Scope (\_SB.PC02)
    {
        Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
        {
            If (LEqual (Arg0, ToUUID ("a0b5b7c6-1318-441c-b0c9-fe695eaf949b")))
            {
                If (LEqual (Arg1, One))
                {
                    If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
                    {
                        Store (Buffer (One)
                            {
                                 0x03
                            }, Arg4)
                        Return (One)
                    }

                    If (LEqual (Arg2, One))
                    {
                        Return (One)
                    }
                }
            }

            Store (Buffer (One)
                {
                     0x00
                }, Arg4)
            Return (Zero)
        }

    }

}

I'm attaching a shoddy phone picture for the time being until I get a full ioreg dump going.

Edit: Attached IOReg dump.
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Your RX 6900XT is at the following PCI path:

_SB.PC02.BR2A.SL05.PCI-Bridge@0.GFX0

But only first first 4 parts of the path are defined in the DSDT. The two parts in bold must be created by the SSDT in order to reach the correct final endpoint (the GPU). Only then can we change the Device ID.

The process is described in this post:
www.tonymacx86.com

Gigabyte Z490 Vision D (Thunderbolt 3) + i5-10400 + AMD RX 580

It works. Thanks! So you used this path for construction of SSDT? IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/IOU1@7/IOPP/PXS2@0/IOPP/pci-bridge@4/IOPP/GFX1@0 Glad to hear it. Just curious what is the logic? The thinking was as follows: Your Nvidia GPU was being attached to...
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I've made the necessary changes and attached both the AML and DSL files. The DSL file should have all the comments intact.
 

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Finally, it's alive! MSI 6800xt Gaming X Trio 3xDisplayport 1x HDMI Running triple 4k.

Few bits of strange behaviour, seems like OSX is hogging a lot of memory compared to when I was using the 5700xt and it goes to full memory utilisation when I load logic. Oddly I can no longer boot when monitors plugged into the 5700xt, but I'll be removing that shortly so I get full 16xPCI on the 6800xt.

Overall seems a success,
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Hi guys, I installed the update with usb and the system works with my former RX 470 in mac 11.4

However with the same efi when I try booting with RX 6800 XT after the verbose part when it's supposed to show the password screen the screen gets in a loop of trying to show video but failing. Do I need to do anything extra?

OpenCore 0.6.8
Ryzen 5 5600x
B550M
Rx 6800 xt
 
xizzun said:
Hi guys, I installed the update with usb and the system works with my former RX 470 in mac 11.4

However with the same efi when I try booting with RX 6800 XT after the verbose part when it's supposed to show the password screen the screen gets in a loop of trying to show video but failing. Do I need to do anything extra?

OpenCore 0.6.8
Ryzen 5 5600x
B550M
Rx 6800 xt
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agdpmod=pikera boot arg.
 
Pentium G3258 w/RX 480
GA-H97-D3H |  Pentium G3258 |  Radeon Other
iMac 17.1 w/RX480
GA-Z170M-D3H |  i5 6500 |  Radeon Other
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