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1080Ti support this function. Just depends on the manufacture how to programme the fan curve
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There’s way too many posts to know if this has been covered and from what I managed to see I couldn’t find the answer.
Someone please tell me I just didn’t buy a very expensive brick
I just put a 6800xt card in an enclosure on the most up to date Big Sur and it doesn’t work.
Someone please tell me I just didn’t buy a very expensive brick
I just put a 6800xt card in an enclosure on the most up to date Big Sur and it doesn’t work.
So I’ve learned. I was searching through to see if anyone had any indication of a timeframe but 70+ pages is a lot to go through
The Navi 21 GPUs are very new so discussion about them would be limited to the few last pages of this thread. I apologize for the confusion of the first post. It tracks the device IDs included in the drivers and not all of the GPUs listed have been tested by users. I’ve updated the first post to show that the 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT are not supported. What I can recommend is if you need a new GPU buy one from Apple or select a 3rd party GPU that is widely known to be supported. GPUs that were recently released and are not sold in any Mac are often not supported.
AMD announced the new Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card today. It's a 230 watt card with a suggested price of $479. Of course it might not be supported under macOS when it releases. It looks like the first Navi 22 GPU. The device ID could be 0x73DF since the 6800, 6800 XT, & 6900 XT cards are 0x73BF.
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Built on the AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture, AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series graphics deliver next-generation performance and visuals for all gamers & streamers.
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I'd first be more concerned with Rosetta potentially disappearing in the near future vs. any GPU improvements/upgrades on macOS side. For anyone using a Mac for professional work, this could be a huge deal moving forward. More machines will be stuck on Catalina 10.15.7 versions and those baked-in GPU drivers. No alternative for M1-based at the moment.
"three Navi 21 GPUs coming to Macs" - can you cite your source please?
I discussed it on November 17th here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/amd-polaris-vega-navi-gpu-macos-support.2083168/post-29265088
Apple only creates frame-buffer personalities for GPUs they sell, either in a Mac or in some cases a 3rd party GPU they have sold through the Apple store such as the Blackmagic eGPUs. It’s likely those GPUs will be MPX modules for the 7,1 or 8,1 Intel based Mac Pros.
LOL, that was 4 months ago!
Absolutely pathetic on Apple's part to limit their own consumers like this and equally pathetic for Apple consumers to just let Apple get away with it.
New GPUs from Apple usually show up in the drivers months ahead of their release. These are specific Apple GPUs by AMD, not the PC versions that are currently available. We should expect the drivers to be functional when Apple is getting ready to release the products.
I put an AMD RX6900XT into a 5,1.
It even won’t post (chime)
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It even won’t post (chime)
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / 6900 XT for macOS?
I put an AMD RX6900XT Reference Model into a customer 5.1 machine. it even wont post (no chime). I added an uga GPU and it got to a Firmware loop (loud chime, chime, chime, chime....) in one second rhythm. I asume a glitch in the RX Bios with Mac Firmware. Mac Firmware was 144, rebuilt with...
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slightly off topic:I put an AMD RX6900XT into a 5,1.
It even won’t post (chime)
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / 6900 XT for macOS?
I put an AMD RX6900XT Reference Model into a customer 5.1 machine. it even wont post (no chime). I added an uga GPU and it got to a Firmware loop (loud chime, chime, chime, chime....) in one second rhythm. I asume a glitch in the RX Bios with Mac Firmware. Mac Firmware was 144, rebuilt with...
Have you ever been able to solve such a no post situation by hardware changes or software updates yourself?
I am asking because we have a bunch of AMD (Baffin, Polaris, Ellesmere) mobile cards (MXM slot) not posting (and not running) in iMac Mid 2011 while perfectly posting and running in older iMac Late 2009 and Mid 2010 systems. This is confusing...
EDIT: We solved this for at least one model through modifications on the MXM card.
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not really as I am no firmware engineer. I have slight knowledge of the Mac Pro Firmware when it comes to reconstruction, cleanup and adding some firmware modules. But when it comes to debugging I lag knowlege and tools.
i have some experience how GPUs interact with the Firmware as we MP users mod GPU bios to add uga support for bootscreens. This Firmware boot loop I have seen with bricked GPUs or GPU mods (lound chime, chime, chime etc).
so my conclusion with adding an uga gpu to the 6900 and getting the firmware loop.
Updated the first post to show Navi RDNA2 (Navi 21) GPUs are supported beginning with macOS 11.4.
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Only a single specific frame buffer personality is present in 11.4 for Navi 21. So at least 1 MPX module based on Navi 21 may be coming to the 7,1.
Thanks for keeping the thread up to date, but it's really strange now for the cMP. We have a card that has macOS driver support, but can't POST on cMP.
Anyone tried if co-installed the 6000 series card with another supported card (e.g. RX560) on the 5,1, or with another Mac EFI UGA card (e.g. 7950, or even GT120), or no monitor connected when boot, etc. would make any different?
Or even more extreme, use it via the Titan Ridge as eGPU. I know this is far from ideal, but depends on the situation, this may be useful. And at least we know if there is a way to make it work (on the cMP).
Anyone tried if co-installed the 6000 series card with another supported card (e.g. RX560) on the 5,1, or with another Mac EFI UGA card (e.g. 7950, or even GT120), or no monitor connected when boot, etc. would make any different?
Or even more extreme, use it via the Titan Ridge as eGPU. I know this is far from ideal, but depends on the situation, this may be useful. And at least we know if there is a way to make it work (on the cMP).
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yes, added an efi card and it got a halve post loop instead of no post.
BONG bong bong bong....
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / 6900 XT for macOS?
I put an AMD RX6900XT Reference Model into a customer 5.1 machine. it even wont post (no chime). I added an uga GPU and it got to a Firmware loop (loud chime, chime, chime, chime....) in one second rhythm. I asume a glitch in the RX Bios with Mac Firmware. Mac Firmware was 144, rebuilt with...
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It looks like AMD is getting ready to release a Radeon Pro W6800 or W6900 workstation graphics card. An MPX version is probably forthcoming.
www.tomshardware.com
Mysterious GPU Could Be AMD's Next-Gen Big Navi Radeon Pro GPU
Big Navi goes Pro?
It appears the new Radeon Pro W6800 is supported by macOS 11.4 and later. The device ID is present in the framebuffer driver. It's Navi 21 based like the RX 6800/6900 series. It appears the Navi 23 based Radeon Pro W6600 is not yet supported.