[SUCCESS] Gigabyte Designare Z390 (Thunderbolt 3) + i7-9700K + AMD RX 580

[CaseySJ]

**Official: AMD Big Navi RX 6000 Series **

Everything Announced Today

Editorial Remark:
Very impressive lineup from AMD. A month ago we thought AMD couldn't compete with Ampere. That sentiment has completely flipped around.
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Big Navi:

• Hardware ray tracing (DirectX Ray Tracing)​
• Support for DirectStorage API (to speed up large data transfers from SSD to GPU)​

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The Nvidia RTX 3080 Competitor: RX 6800 XT ($50 less than RTX 3080)

• US$649 releases on Wednesday, November 18. Three weeks from now.
• 72 compute units, 2015 MHz game clock, 2250 MHz boost clock
• 16GB GDDR6, 256 bit memory bus, 300W total board power
• RTX 3080 has 10GB GDDR6X, so Big Navi has 6GB more (but GDDR6, not 6X)
• Overclock headroom

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The Nvidia RTX 3070 Competitor: RX 6800 ($80 more than RTX 3070)

• US$579 releases on Wednesday, November 18. Three weeks from now.
• 60 compute units, 1815 MHz game clock, 2105 MHz boost clock
• 16GB GDDR6, 256 bit memory bus, 250W total board power
• This is twice as much GDDR6 memory as RTX 3070 (which has 8GB)
• Overclock headroom

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The Nvidia RTX 3090 Competitor: RX 6900 XT (huge $500 less than RTX 3090)

• US$999 releases on Tuesday, December 8. About six weeks from now.
• 80 compute units, 2015 MHz game clock, 2250 MHz boost clock
• 16GB GDDR6, 256 bit memory bus, 300W total board power
• RTX 3090 has 24GB GDDR6 memory, so Big Navi has 8GB less on this model
• Overclock headroom
• Same relatively small form factor as 6800 XT (unlike RTX 3090, which is considerably larger than RTX 3080)

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[Joakim1337]

The Nvidia RTX 3080 Competitor: RX 6800 XT ($50 less than RTX 3080)

EFF YES!

I will definitely go for the RX 6800 XT – I would go for the 5900 XT if it had more memory but I need a new gpu asap. I am using a rx 580 and a rtx 2060 super (in windows), it would be so pleasing to just use one. The 2060 is causing sleep/wake issues and I can't use the 580 for rendering in Blender.

 

[ori69]

You must also rename _E23 to XE23:

If using Clover, go to Clover Configurator --> ACPI and add a new ACPI rename:

• FIND: 5F 45 32 33
• REPLACE: 58 45 32 33
• Comment: Replace _E23 with XE23

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Then reboot and check IORegistryExplorer again for RP05 section. Post a screenshot.

 

[CaseySJ]

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Unfortunately there’s nothing more I can do.

 

[joostiphone]

**Official: AMD Big Navi RX 6000 Series **

Everything announced today
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Big Navi:

• Hardware ray tracing (DirectX Ray Tracing)​
• Support for DirectStorage API (to speed up large data transfers from SSD to GPU)​

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The Nvidia RTX 3080 Competitor: RX 6800 XT ($50 less than RTX 3080)

• US$649 releases on Wednesday, November 18. Three weeks from now.
• 72 compute units, 2015 MHz game clock, 2250 MHz boost clock
• 16GB GDDR6, 256 bit memory bus, 300W total board power
• Overclock headroom

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The Nvidia RTX 3070 Competitor: RX 6800 ($80 more than RTX 3070)

• US$579 releases on Wednesday, November 18. Three weeks from now.
• 60 compute units, 1815 MHz game clock, 2105 MHz boost clock
• 16GB GDDR6, 256 bit memory bus, 250W total board power
• This is twice as much GDDR6 memory as RTX 3070
• Overclock headroom

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The Nvidia RTX 3090 Competitor: RX 6900 XT (huge $500 less than RTX 3090)

• US$999 releases on Tuesday, December 8. About six weeks from now.
• 80 compute units, 2015 MHz game clock, 2250 MHz boost clock
• 16GB GDDR6, 256 bit memory bus, 300W total board power
• Overclock headroom
• Same relatively small form factor as 6800 XT (unlike RTX 3090, which is considerably larger than RTX 3080)

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the big question is “will it blend?” “will Big Sur support the RX 6000 series”. Fingers crossed.

 

[DJ4MC]

the big question is “will it blend?” “will Big Sur support the RX 6000 series”

HaHa ""Will it Blend" love it. My big question is more on the Big Sur support. And, an upgrade guide for the Designare. You know, with Opencore... @CaseySJ

 

[brousseau6933]

Just a little annoying thing with the Quantum 2626:

If computer goes to sleep and the 2626 is on:

1- if it's not powered off - I mean AC switch to off - (led goes red during sleep) before or during sleep: it's recognized at wake up;

2- if it's powered off during sleep (led off obviously): it's not recognized at wake up if we power it on once. It has to be cycled off-on again and then, it's fine!;

3- if it's powered off during sleep but powered on again before wake-up (it doesn't trigger a wake-up like starting an USB device), it's recognized fine.

I've tried a couple of things:

- a different Thunderbolt ACPI patch (SSDT-MR-TR.aml);
- disabling onboard audio: the computer doesn't even wake-up if the 2626 is powered off during sleep?

The only solutions (workarounds) is to:

1- 2626 always on;

or

2- being sure to power it on before the computer wakes up;

or

3- powering it twice... after wake-up if I forgot to apply solution 1 or 2;

or

4- restart CoreAudio (so, looks it's a CoreAudio/driver bug. The interface is present in IORegistryExplorer even if it's not seen by CoreAudio...!).

EDIT: found on the web how to use Automator to run the script (restart CoreAudio).
Definitely a driver or CoreAudio bug...

 

[jackil182]

Let's see if we can straighten out the confusion:

• There is a difference between connecting monitors via Thunderbolt and connecting a Thunderbolt monitor.
• Not all monitors are Thunderbolt monitors.

In other words:

• If a monitor has DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI connectors only, then it is not a Thunderbolt monitor.
• If a monitor has a USB-C connector without a Thunderbolt logo printed on it, then it is not a Thunderbolt monitor.
• Thunderbolt monitors have a USB-C connector with a Thunderbolt logo. These monitors may also have DisplayPort and/or HDMI connectors.

Next:

• Thunderbolt ports carry at least 3 kinds of signals:
  • DisplayPort
  • USB 2 and USB 3
  • PCIe bus extension
• When we use a USB-C to DisplayPort cable (with USB-C end of the cable connected to Thunderbolt port on motherboard), the cable will only send DisplayPort signals to a standard non-Thunderbolt monitor that has a DisplayPort connector.
  • This provides compatibility with non-Thunderbolt monitors.
  • There is no reason to do this if you have an AMD GPU with a DisplayPort output built in.
• When we use a USB-C to HDMI cable (with USB-C end of the cable connected to Thunderbolt port on motherboard), the cable will convert DisplayPort to HDMI and send that to a standard non-Thunderbolt monitor that has a HDMI connector.
  • This provides compatibility with non-Thunderbolt monitors.
  • There is no reason to do this if you have an AMD GPU with a HDMI output built in.

Finally:

• If you have a real Thunderbolt monitor that has a USB-C (Thunderbolt) connector with a Thunderbolt logo, then and only then it becomes necessary to use a Thunderbolt Cable (with Thunderbolt logos on both ends of the cable).
• We connect the Thunderbolt cable to either of the two Thunderbolt ports on the motherboard, and the other end goes to the Thunderbolt port on the monitor.
• Then we have two options for enabling video over this cable:
  • Option 1: We can put iGPU into non-headless mode (0x3E9B0007).
    • This option is highly discouraged because it causes compatibility problems with various applications.
  • Option 2: We can connect a short DisplayPort cable from the AMD GPU to the DP-Inport on the rear IO panel. Then we can use the top Thunderbolt port (the one closest to HDMI port) to connect the Thunderbolt monitor.
    • This is the better option because the AMD GPU is much more powerful than Intel's iGPU.

Examples of Thunderbolt cables (i.e. with Thunderbolt logo printed on each connector):
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That really clears things up! Thanks a lot for such a detailed reply - good to know this stuff. It might be a good idea to add a link to that post somewhere in your table of contents, because I think many people will benefit from knowing this in advance.

 

[Jamesbond007]

**Official: AMD Big Navi RX 6000 Series **

Everything Announced Today

Editorial Remark:
Very impressive lineup from AMD. A month ago we thought AMD couldn't compete with Ampere. That sentiment has completely flipped around.
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I am going to stay with my RX580s for some time as I need to run older MacOS versions on my system. I am sure however that many people here will be interested to see if these cards will gain support on Big Sur later.

 

[brousseau6933]

Yes. I was struggling with an issue where Native Instruments plugins I legitimately own would need to be authorized every time I rebooted. After a long time of searching around online, I finally discovered that they were relying on the CPU's speed to do some kind of calculation for some reason, which isn't usually filled out by people in Clover.

I went in to Clover -> CPU -> and set my Frequency MHz to a value of '3700' (for 3.7ghz), rebooted, and reauthorized the software and the problem has finally went away. Seems kind of an odd parameter to use. I've talked to Waves who and a few other companies who have told me they use the ethernet hardware ID's. Native Instruments is the only one I've ever had a problem with. I was glad to have finally found a fix, and it was cool of them to actually give one/support the Hackintosh community.

Oh well. I had the same problem tonight, Galaxy D telling "Activate". Kudos for your solution!

**Studio One complained regularly too about activation...