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AMD Radeon RX 470 (Updated: 3-way CrossFire possible)
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Same as previous Beta builds. RX 480 would crash OpenGL apps. RX 470 would run as long as I want.
Phillip… I feel the RX 470 is too small of an upgrade for me, and I'd like to stick with just one card at this time (and I've got my eyes trained on those 8GB RAM).
You have the RX 480 and I've seen your tests including those in Windows. How stable is the RX 480 in OS X if you consider limiting its use to FCPX and Resolve? Is it OK, apart from Open GL games? Have you tested the Cinebench Demo that is available from Maxon?
Thanks
You have the RX 480 and I've seen your tests including those in Windows. How stable is the RX 480 in OS X if you consider limiting its use to FCPX and Resolve? Is it OK, apart from Open GL games? Have you tested the Cinebench Demo that is available from Maxon?
Thanks
In prior releases, anything with OpenGL hard-locks locks the OS. If you need more RAM, there is a 8GB RX 470. If you need a card with more teeth there are options from Nvidia, Or... as MacVidCards AND Barefeats pointed out, go for a R9 Nano.
Just to reinforce the latest beta update... One must modify the AMDx4000 kext for RX470 acceleration.
Btw.... AMD display drivers were updated.
Thanks for the clarification.
Kind of sucks since the RX 480 8GB seemed like the sweet spot where I expected good OS X support, lots of RAM and good price with low TDP.
I'd go for Nvidia if the GTX 1080 showed some progress in terms of plug and play. I don't care to micro management every little update.
R9 Nano could be cool—seems to max out at 4GB.
Allright... I'll hold out a little longer and think about it.
You brought up a valid point. I tried powering the RX 480 last night with a 6-pin Y splitter to get power from both mini PCIe power ports in my Mac Pro. Same result unfortunately.
Certainly possible. Apple drivers would have to be updated as often as Windows drivers to fix issues like this. What are the chances of that?
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1748?vs=1754
It's a good card, hard to get hold of and pricey now though unfortunately. Can't see it for much less than £400 in the UK, and for that I could get a GTX 1070, albeit without OS X support.
well while osx12 is in beta it's not a stable work platform but good to see the rx 470 working ok + it's a nice indication that we may get the 480 working as it's almost the same card. (and any higher end cards if ATI has anything more beefy than the 480)
:E but yep it's a waiting game.
anyone tried adobe CS6 in osx12 beta yet ?
:E but yep it's a waiting game.
anyone tried adobe CS6 in osx12 beta yet ?
You can still get the Fury non X for £300 though
https://www.amazon.co.uk/XFX-R9-Fur...e=UTF8&qid=1472856486&sr=1-1&keywords=r9+fury
[doublepost=1472857308][/doublepost]Ultimately I think the the reason why 470 has better support in macOS than 480:
It's 120W TDP.
The 470 is probably the rumoured "new AMD chip for iMac 5K" on the front page. Without any downclocking or modification it will give the top of line 5K a nice bump from M395X, even brings the performance to support VR.
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You can still get the Fury non X for £300 though
https://www.amazon.co.uk/XFX-R9-Fur...e=UTF8&qid=1472856486&sr=1-1&keywords=r9+fury
Can't power it internally* though, 2 x 8-pin = 300w possible draw :/
1 x 8-pin from the Nano is fine.
* Yes, yes, I'm sure some of you have bought fancy cables to convert 6-pin to 8-pin. I'm not risking drawing that much power and damaging my machine. You can if you like.
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Instead of arguing Red Vs Green until you are Blue, should stick to talking about which ones work natively in macOS Sierra.
Kinda boring seeing the same old posts about how the latest security update borked Nvidia web drivers. I'd like to see more people test the Nano with Sierra as it can be found cheaply and has excellent OpenCL performance and efficiency.
Kinda boring seeing the same old posts about how the latest security update borked Nvidia web drivers. I'd like to see more people test the Nano with Sierra as it can be found cheaply and has excellent OpenCL performance and efficiency.
As I've already said, the R9 Nano is interesting, but actually increasingly expensive and hard to locate, presumably linked with Hynix ceasing/ramping down production of HBM1.
If We could get a Nano for around £300 then it'd be worth it, for for ~£400, it's not, when you can get the GTX 1070 instead. Ok, it'll only run Windows currently, but if you can live with that, it's not such a compromise.
Has anyone seen this post before though?
https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2016/04/05/radeon-r9-fury-nano-uefi-firmware
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Production of Fiji chips has stopped with beginning of July, for mainstream, consumer market, and currently it undergoes shutting down for server market. AMD will replace it with Vega 10 GPU, with HBM2.
Link.... Please
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iceland/greenland is already supported in sierra. by the looks of it, the driver has more teeth than the rx480.
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yes. it has been since day 1.
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Are you sure it is related to both GPUs?
Iceland is Graphics IPv8 family, Greenland is Graphics IPv9 family. Iceland is related to Fiji chips, Greenland is the GPU that has spawned upcoming Vega GPUs.