I’m sure I had about 113,000 with an RX470 in GB4 and that’s without an compute unit tweaks.
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AMD Confirms RX 480 At $199 USD, Other APU & Polaris Announcements
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Score on Geekbench almost doubled after the script (now is 131690). Still don't know how select which graphic card should be used for a Steam game for example...
Well my system wasn't performing good at all. XRG monitor was showing the ADM card's RAM something like 100% busy even in idle. When using two video card it was not possible to rotate the display (one of the 2 monitor I'm using is in pivot mode).
After some more test I decided to uninstall the GT120: now everything is working like a charm:
- dual display (one via DP-DP cable, one using a DVI to DP adapter)
- games and app are running just fine
- rotate option is now available in Display's preferences
- of course no boot screen
- some slowness in booting and shooting down now
After some more test I decided to uninstall the GT120: now everything is working like a charm:
- dual display (one via DP-DP cable, one using a DVI to DP adapter)
- games and app are running just fine
- rotate option is now available in Display's preferences
- of course no boot screen
- some slowness in booting and shooting down now
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makes sense; I've seen some "strangeness" when using mixing nVidia w/ AMD cards.
Perhaps look around for a cheap-ish Mac flashed AMD card just for boot and GUI.
You may need to swap your monitor to one of the 480 cards for gaming.
If you use the script read it first don't be lowendlinux and spend an hour chmoding, ./ing, and sh ing while swearing about OS X
Might do the same, however I will try 10.12.3 first as the kext appears to have been updated. (1.48.16 vs 1.48.21).
EDIT: Just ran up OpenGL Extensions Viewer, seems that 1.48.16 is just the OGL version?
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It's not possible at the moment. Each GPU will accelerate the screens attached to it, you can't run RX 480 acceleration "through" your GT120.
I know the current game won't work in that way. But isn't Metal can let the "compute" GPU to accelerate a screen that not directly connected to it? I am not challenging you, just want to discuss this topic and make sure that I have the correct concept.
I forgot to confirm that Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB (21260-00-20G) fits just well on 5,1 cMP (no friction at all between the rear surface of the card and the lower compartment of the Mac Pro).
Yes, probably there are some models out there with a bigger butt
[doublepost=1485256618][/doublepost]Did somebody tried to update to 10.12.3?
Then I must have a lot of junk in my trunk. I’ve not yet applied the update as I usually clone overnight before doing that.Yes, probably there are some models out there with a bigger butt
[doublepost=1485256618][/doublepost]Did somebody tried to update to 10.12.3?
1024 GCN core RX 460 is on par, slightly slower than GTX 1050.
Raven Ridge APU GPU will also have 1024 GCN cores. CPU and GPU packages are rated at 45W TDP both, the 5W TDP in 95W SoC is for HBM2. GPU is between 25% and 75% faster compared to 1024 GCN Core RX 460, in gaming. Everything depends on the implementation of hardware features by developers.
For example, a game like Overwatch can see 25-35% increase in framerate compared to 1024 GCN core RX 460.
Game like Doom can see even 75% increase in performance.
There is few features in the Vega hardware that will not be "visible" to DX12, in current state.
Raven Ridge APU GPU will also have 1024 GCN cores. CPU and GPU packages are rated at 45W TDP both, the 5W TDP in 95W SoC is for HBM2. GPU is between 25% and 75% faster compared to 1024 GCN Core RX 460, in gaming. Everything depends on the implementation of hardware features by developers.
For example, a game like Overwatch can see 25-35% increase in framerate compared to 1024 GCN core RX 460.
Game like Doom can see even 75% increase in performance.
There is few features in the Vega hardware that will not be "visible" to DX12, in current state.
Project Scorpio sort of confirmed to have a 6GFlops Polaris GPU.
And Volta to be announced this year on 12nm? With GDDR6 and HBM2?
And Volta to be announced this year on 12nm? With GDDR6 and HBM2?
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Manuel, if I will get any information on the Memory specs I will write it in Pascal thread.
12 nm is just refined 16nm process with different name.
My plan was to have the "secondary" display connected to the GT120 for boot screens etc and the "main" display connected to the RX 480 to achieve full GPU acceleration when needed (I mean all full screen apps like games or rendering apps..).
But my plan has failed miserably seen it looks like that an nVidia card can not live togheter with an ATI/AMD card that good and especially macOS does not handle well the presence of two different video cards (you cannot choose which one to use when you open an app that is "GPU aware").
I disagree with general part of your statement: I had a 750Ti running alongside an HD5770 (for bootscreen) and I never had any hassles. I seems to me to be more of a problem specific to your configuration.
That doesn't help you, I know.
So guys at least this is not a general issue but something related to my specific config. Did you ever read about GT120 compatibility for these these kinds of multi GPU things? I had issues (graphics glitches in finder and some crashes) also when I tried to use the GT120 for my "pivot" screen and a HD5870 for the Cinema HD Display. Maybe I have a faulty GT120
Bad news for Vega?
http://wccftech.com/sk-hynix-hbm2-radeon-vega-2017/
The good news is that it seems to be on schedule for Q2.
http://wccftech.com/sk-hynix-hbm2-radeon-vega-2017/
The good news is that it seems to be on schedule for Q2.
I cannot give you any link, to confirm this, because this info is not fully official, but I have at least a proof, that you can deduct yourself:
Bristol Ridge GPU has VP9 and H.265/HEVC native decode, and encode, which was only only in Polaris lineup. Performance of Bristol Ridge APU is 35-40% of RX 460, with 512 GCN cores, and without fast GDDR5 memory, and lower core clock, than RX 460.
Bristol Ridge GPU has VP9 and H.265/HEVC native decode, and encode, which was only only in Polaris lineup. Performance of Bristol Ridge APU is 35-40% of RX 460, with 512 GCN cores, and without fast GDDR5 memory, and lower core clock, than RX 460.