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- Mar 6, 2013
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte X299X Designare 10G
- CPU
- i9-10980XE
- Graphics
- AMD 6900XT
- Mobile Phone
I don't think we can believe that though, it's just a screenshot of a Facebook message thread with all names blacked out. Anyone can say those things.I posted a screenshot earlier but got deleted. An AMD engineer was claimed he has a unrelased beta version already support big navi but there are some issue they are still working on it.
In response to that screenshot, a user on another site who has a good reputation in the Hackintosh and Mac communities claimed that he has heard direct from an AMD developer that Apple writes all their own drivers for all of AMD, Intel and NVidia GPUs. The GPU manufacturers send them the hardware and specifications and Apple does all the code. Which would certainly explain why Apple GPU drivers often have lots of bugs not found in the Linux and Windows drivers
I don't know if that's true, either. But I'd be more inclined to believe that than a Facebook screenshot with all the names blacked out.
All that said, I am a little confident for 11.4. But that's based on the remarks from the Octane and Redshift developers - whose names we do know, and whose positions make it believable that they might know - plus my personal belief that it's more likely than not that Apple will support these cards eventually.
It's all speculation. We can but wait.
Normally I'd say that it's not certain enough that anyone should go out and buy a card for use in macOS alone. But right now they're so valuable that if by any miracle someone can get one within 20% of RRP they should definitely buy it, regardless of macOS support; it's an investment I paid £200 over RRP for my 6900XT and right now I could still make a £250+ profit on it. Madness.