160 W for the mentioned PowerColor Radeon RX 6600 XT Fighter.
As it has only one single 8-pin PCIe connector, it can‘t draw more than 150 W from the Mac Pros motherboard Dual-6 pin power connectors. So a Pixlas mod shouldn‘t be necessary.
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As it has only one single 8-pin PCIe connector, it can‘t draw more than 150 W from the Mac Pros motherboard Dual-6 pin power connectors. So a Pixlas mod shouldn‘t be necessary.
hello Jonwatso,
How this new AMD 6600XT is performing compare to an vega 56/64?
I’ve a Vega 56 and would be happy to reduce my power consumption a bit without reducing the performance.
How this new AMD 6600XT is performing compare to an vega 56/64?
I’ve a Vega 56 and would be happy to reduce my power consumption a bit without reducing the performance.
https://technical.city/en/video/Radeon-RX-Vega-64-vs-Radeon-RX-6600-XT ← TDP lower about 50% for the RX
Hi, sorry to bother,
Yesterday I successfully ran up to date Monetery with RX 6700XT. It works very well but has no hardware acceleration.
Is there some kind of fix or patch that I could apply. Do you think Ventura will release Navi 22 drivers? Official Apple Support has not responded to me on this issue to date.... But the progress is visible. On Big Sure and first Monetery I couldn't even get a picture, now it works quite correctly but I can't turn on Photoshop and iMovie without HWA
Yesterday I successfully ran up to date Monetery with RX 6700XT. It works very well but has no hardware acceleration.
Is there some kind of fix or patch that I could apply. Do you think Ventura will release Navi 22 drivers? Official Apple Support has not responded to me on this issue to date.... But the progress is visible. On Big Sure and first Monetery I couldn't even get a picture, now it works quite correctly but I can't turn on Photoshop and iMovie without HWA
I doubt there will be any drivers without Apple proprietary 7000 cards released. Chances for that are slim to 0.
I agree with you that the
Btw, is completely futile to post asking if there is/will be support for not yet released cards, seems every day this week someone asks it.
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It's HAPPENING!!
Thanks to @Syncretic and the whole opencore team. And also thanks to Donald at Canada Computers for flashing this for me. Gonna make a whole video on the pixlas mod and installation of this beast in the next few days. Will include some benchmarks and jokes on my new channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcNGyY2FDA-sA4e24V9aSw
Thanks to @Syncretic and the whole opencore team. And also thanks to Donald at Canada Computers for flashing this for me. Gonna make a whole video on the pixlas mod and installation of this beast in the next few days. Will include some benchmarks and jokes on my new channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcNGyY2FDA-sA4e24V9aSw
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By 'that' are you referring to the chance of a 7000 series MPX release? Or the likelihood of a driver release without a corresponding MPX (which I agree is zero)? It's true that Apple already has something of a challenge equalling a loaded 2019 MP with the new AS MP, and supporting the 7000 series would only raise the bar. AS excels at CPU speed, but RAM capacity and in particular, GPU performance, are its weak spots.
A further question is whether 7000 series drivers would ever appear in Monterey. The 7900 probably won't be out until mid-November, and an MPX version would be later still. By the time it (and certainly the lower end 7000 GPUs) come out, we'll be well into Ventura. Which is fine for the 7,1 but will probably remain out of reach for the 5,1 (and 6,1?).
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It seems the Ventura RC has increased metal performance with the 6900XT. would be nice if apple supported the up coming 7900xt in the future.
GPU temp is widely available, no way to control the GPU fan in MacOS, though.
Hi, I'm with OC 8.0 (Martin LO version) and Monterey 12.3. I recently switched the graphics card as my 7950HD failed and I replaced it with a 6600 XT. While Monterey works fine I now must boot with 10.9.5 in order to use my protools HD system. Apparently the Mac boots but Graphics performance is really poor. Is there any way to improve it? As an alternative I may install an old NVidia card and remove one DSP protools Card and just use protools HD for tracking... any advice?
There is no drivers for a NAVI 23 GPU before 12.1, so any time you boot an earlier release of macOS, you are using fail-safe macEFI drivers, completely unaccelerated. Btw, this only works because OpenCore provide GOP support, without OC you wouldn't have a display working.
There is nothing that you can do about performance, so, you have to change your GPU to one that can boot both Monterey and Mavericks, add a second GPU or change your workflow.
That's what I was getting with hardware encoding on a test SSD Sata 2.0 drive. Wanted to make sure TitanRidge was working with UAD before I upgraded a friends NVME to BigSur.
I found that with hardware encoding turned off (selecting no SYMBIOS spoof in OCLP) I got 47000'ish with his overclocked RX480 8gb, but wanted to be a little more dramatic....
With that said, if anyone knows why I was getting a lower score on GB5 with the new SYMBIOS, I'd love to know. Maybe there's another setting I'm missing?
Being that I intend to do a lot of video editing when I can afford the card myself, I want to make sure I have the best settings for OCLP for my rig and intended use.
Just tested my RX 580 8gb and got 28048 - Same SYMBIOS Spoof ID as the machine I upgraded yesterday - Apple "Inc. Mac-27AD2F918AE68F61 MacPro5,1"
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Mine was 141646 with the W6800X MPX module and W3245 (not the M version) and less RAM than yours:
I don't think there is any performance difference between the W3245 and the W3245M apart from the M version supports more ram. 1tb against 2tb for the M version. I will not be buying 2tb of memory for sure.
But i think your W6800X has 32gb of memory against my 6900XT 16gb but what i have noticed is that in windows this gigabyte 6900XT boost's on it's own to 2730mhz which is amazing for a 6900XT as i don't overclock the GPU at all, all settings are default. I have no idea if in Ventura the AMD drivers boost or not as no control panel like in window's.
My other sapphire 6900XT OC version cant reach any where near the Gigabyte in boost, 2300mhz being Max on default settings. So i think i lucked out with the gigabyte version. It's a shame you cant control the 6900XT cooling fans in Mac OSX as that would be useful. sits at 56c idle in windows with 800rpm on fans it sits at 36c and you still cant hear it.
Can you please send me an ioregistry backup with the W6800x MPX?
Thanks