MP 1,1-5,1 Activate AMD hardware acceleration

[MacManu77]

I can follow the 13 steps to post 594 to get the full gpu acceleration and stay with Mojave 10.14.6 from how I understand... Right?

I did not understand if the turbo Boost will work well or not, and if anyway the cpu will have all the cores active and working well.

 

[h9826790]

I can follow the 13 steps to post 594 to get the full gpu acceleration and stay with Mojave 10.14.6 from how I understand... Right?

I did not understand if the turbo Boost will work well or not, and if anyway the cpu will have all the cores active and working well.

You can do everything in post 594 to get full HWAccel now. It will stay until you select another boot drive in system preference -> startup disc, or perform a NVRAM reset. This also serve as a fail safe protection.

If HWAccel / OpenCore is disabled, you can simply do step 7+8+13 to re-enable OpenCore on the next boot.

For TurboBoost, it will be disabled at this moment if you follow the exact steps in post 594 to use OpenCore 0.5.4. But if you go 0.5.5 beta, then TurboBoost will work flawlessly. I will update post 594 once 0.5.5 go official. But IMO, you can safely go 0.5.5 beta now. I keep testing the latest 0.5.5 beta, very stable on my cMP.

 

[MacManu77]

You can do everything in post 594 to get full HWAccel now. It will stay until you select another boot drive in system preference -> startup disc, or perform a NVRAM reset. This also serve as a fail safe protection.

If HWAccel / OpenCore is disabled, you can simply do step 7+8+13 to re-enable OpenCore on the next boot.

For TurboBoost, it will be disabled at this moment if you follow the exact steps in post 594 to use OpenCore 0.5.4. But if you go 0.5.5 beta, then TurboBoost will work flawlessly. I will update post 594 once 0.5.5 go official. But IMO, you can safely go 0.5.5 beta now. I keep testing the latest 0.5.5 beta, very stable on my cMP.

Yes, I'm interested in coding/decoding of h264 that hevc.

Can I start the procedure with Mojave 10.14.6 in the nvme in the signing?
The other hd physicists are discovering them all.

 

[h9826790]

Yes, I'm interested in coding/decoding of h264 that hevc.

Can I start the procedure with Mojave 10.14.6 in the nvme in the signing?
The other hd physicists are discovering them all.

You can do that on your NVMe

 

[MacManu77]

You can do that on your NVMe

Thanks Again
One thing with those 13 steps will then work all the Gpu Port? Or just some?

 

[h9826790]

Thanks Again
One thing with those 13 steps will then work all the Gpu Port? Or just some?

Should be all ports.

 

[MacManu77]

Should be all ports.

Thanks,
the 0.5.5 beta where can i find it?

 

[MIKX]

VideoProc is giving away a free license - must register the " giveaway license " before Feb. 14th 2020.

Just activated my license.

LINK https://www.videoproc.com/giveaway/?mail=JanGV00

 

[w1z]

Thanks for sharing the catalina config.plist file.

Replaced boardid with Mac-27AD2F918AE68F61 (MP7,1) and instead of using the prefilled Patch section, I used -wegtree ie.

-no_compat_check cwae=2 -wegtree shikigva=80

 

[tommy chen]

mojave securityupdate 2020-001 overwrites the appleGVA.framework

 

[Grumply]

If I add a second Radeon VII into the machine, will it provide hardware acceleration automatically? Or is there a part of the process that needs to be repeated?

 

[kohlson]

mojave securityupdate 2020-001 overwrites the appleGVA.framework

Yup. It has sharpened my "skills" in performing this modification. I use the hex method. Now, start to finish, it takes me less than 15 minutes. Most of this is reboot time for disable/enable SIP. The only real challenge for me is that I have installed this on a couple of friends' cMP, and it takes longer to drive to their place than to do the update.

 

[MacManu77]

mojave securityupdate 2020-001 overwrites the appleGVA.framework

only with the hex method,right?

 

[h9826790]

only with the hex method,right?

Correct, other method won't be disabled by OS update

 

[MacManu77]

Correct, other method won't be disabled by OS update

thanks,
I think I look forward to the open core 0.5.5 and I run the 13 steps to get the acceleration of my Dji Mavic 2 Pro with codec video hevc.

 

[h9826790]

If I add a second Radeon VII into the machine, will it provide hardware acceleration automatically? Or is there a part of the process that needs to be repeated?

I don't think so.

All HWAccel is done via VideoToolBox, which the user has no control at all. Which means, for HWAccel, we have no way to assign one GPU for task A, and the other GPU for task B.

Also, I believe only the GPU that has PCIe name GFX0 can do HEVC hardware encoding.

 

[tsialex]

I don't think so.

All HWAccel is done via VideoToolBox, which the user has no control at all. Which means, for HWAccel, we have no way to assign one GPU for task A, and the other GPU for task B.

Also, I believe only the GPU that has PCIe name GFX0 can do HEVC hardware encoding.

I'm hoping that Apple will refactor the VideoToolBox code to enable multiple GPUs hardware encoding. Makes sense for multiple MP7,1 GPUs and DUO MPXs.

For now, just GFX0 is working, like you said.

 

[startergo]

-wegtree places all cards under GFX0. I think FCPX can utilize multiple GPU's

 

[tsialex]

-wegtree places all cards under GFX0. I think FCPX can utilize multiple GPU's

FCPX bypass the VideoToolBox API and uses the GPUs directly via METAL.

 

[Ludacrisvp]

-wegtree places all cards under GFX0. I think FCPX can utilize multiple GPU's

No, I’m 99.9% sure they get numbered sequentially.
GFX0
GFX1

 

[startergo]

No, I’m 99.9% sure they get numbered sequentially.
GFX0
GFX1

I am pretty sure it is
GFX0@0
GFX0@1

Edit: @Ludacrisvp I think with the latest commits things changed
GFX0@0
GFX1@0
:

 

[MacManu77]

Hi,

With the open core 0.5.5 what you say is best updating the post # 594 with the updated files?

 

[MacManu77]

With open core 0.5.5 about 5w higher idle power consumption was that correct?

 

[h9826790]

With open core 0.5.5 about 5w higher idle power consumption was that correct?

Fixed, and post #594 updated accordingly

 

[MacManu77]

Fixed, and post #594 updated accordingly

Thanks, always very helpful.
question: wanting only full GPU acceleration, following the 13 steps I have the possibility then to use the 4k monitor in hdpi?