Monterey and eGPU

[iAssimilated]

Update: Due to other issues, I have tested both my GPUs (Vega 56 and 6800 XT) with Monterey. The Vega 56 has more graphical anomalies (in games) than the 6800 XT. Too bad, since it acts worse than it did with Big Sur. Even though the 6800 works better with Monterey, it will still crash my system with texture errors with the current AMD driver. So I am committed to seeing how Ventura handles both cards before ditching one for the other. My 2018 mini is the only Mac I own that will move past Monterey, so here is hoping for the best.

 

[Matty_TypeR]

I have no issues with my EGPu in 12.5.1 or earlier with 6900xt, in win 11 i loaded the latest AMD drivers and still it runs perfectly. no glitches or anything. your 6800xt should run perfectly.

 

[iAssimilated]

I have no issues with my EGPu in 12.5.1 or earlier with 6900xt, in win 11 i loaded the latest AMD drivers and still it runs perfectly. no glitches or anything. your 6800xt should run perfectly.

For most things, it does run perfectly fine. It just crashes with an unknown texture error from time to time in one of my games (A Total War Saga: Troy). My Vega 56 (while running Big Sur) did not have this issue. The 6800 had the same issue in Big Sur, so I was hoping Monterey's new drivers would resolve that. Thus, why I waiting to see what Ventura offers. I don't use bootcamp or Windows.

 

[Matty_TypeR]

For most things, it does run perfectly fine. It just crashes with an unknown texture error from time to time in one of my games (A Total War Saga: Troy). My Vega 56 (while running Big Sur) did not have this issue. The 6800 had the same issue in Big Sur, so I was hoping Monterey's new drivers would resolve that. Thus, why I waiting to see what Ventura offers. I don't use bootcamp or Windows.

Ventura does have newer drivers, if they solve your problem or not is another thing. lets hope so.

 

[weaztek]

I feel extremely lucky that my eGPU has only caused minor headaches for me thus far.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to owning an M2 Mini (or whatever the nex-gen happens to be named) with the graphics chips built into the motherboards. It always gets a bit hairy relying on [future] operating systems to support my third-party components that aren't super basic like a mouse or USB hub.

 

[Matty_TypeR]

I feel extremely lucky that my eGPU has only caused minor headaches for me thus far.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to owning an M2 Mini (or whatever the nex-gen happens to be named) with the graphics chips built into the motherboards. It always gets a bit hairy relying on [future] operating systems to support my third-party components that aren't super basic like a mouse or USB hub.

Thats one thing i will not be buying, The M series chip Mac, purely because it will only support OSX and metal based games. No windows support and the new Nvidia and AMD GPU's will blow it away. as they do already with current gen 3090 and 6900xt.

Also no EGPu support from M chips at all. not for me thanks as i run multiple operating systems for different things, being stuck on OSX is no good to me.

 

[Monotremata]

I seem to have lost my boot screens at some point and I think it was 12.6 that may have done it?? I swapped out my RX570 a couple months back with an RX 5500 XT (I read the 5xx series won't support the upcoming Metal), still had the boot screens even though Apple technically doesn't support the 5500 at all. When I updated to 12.6 I even watched the little Apple screen/progress bar during the update, but afterwards it seems I don't have it anymore. Yesterday I went and picked up an RX 6600 XT which IS supported by Apple/eGPUs after 12.1, and still no boot screen.

Tried resetting NVRAM a couple times, SMC, reboots, just no more boot screen. Haven't tried putting the RX570 in to see if that works but anybody else lose them too?

 

[Matty_TypeR]

I had no issue with 12.6 with my Egpu, everything has remained the same as before.

 

[iAssimilated]

I seem to have lost my boot screens at some point and I think it was 12.6 that may have done it?? I swapped out my RX570 a couple months back with an RX 5500 XT (I read the 5xx series won't support the upcoming Metal), still had the boot screens even though Apple technically doesn't support the 5500 at all. When I updated to 12.6 I even watched the little Apple screen/progress bar during the update, but afterwards it seems I don't have it anymore. Yesterday I went and picked up an RX 6600 XT which IS supported by Apple/eGPUs after 12.1, and still no boot screen.

Tried resetting NVRAM a couple times, SMC, reboots, just no more boot screen. Haven't tried putting the RX570 in to see if that works but anybody else lose them too?

I haven't had a boot since moving to my 6800 XT (Big Sur or Monterey). Both OS's showed the boot screen with my Vega 56 though. I believe it has something to do with the 6x00 series of GPUs.

 

[Monotremata]

Well my 5500 XT had a boot screen up until about the 12.6 update, and now that one is black too, so I dont think its just the 6000 series.. I haven't had a chance to stop everything and put the RX570 back in to check, but its just weird my boot screen is gone after that update. I did notice my firmware and T2 was updated to the firmware from Ventura Beta 4, but I still had boot screens back then (and had just put in my 5500XT a couple days before installing the beta).

 

[CC88]

Dear all

I'm thinking of switching from Big Sur to Monterey. I own an eGPU with MSI Radeon Vega 56 Airboost inside. No issue at all with Big Sur.

Is it the same in Monterey by your experience?

Thanks a lot.

 

[quadcube]

Dear all

I'm thinking of switching from Big Sur to Monterey. I own an eGPU with MSI Radeon Vega 56 Airboost inside. No issue at all with Big Sur.

Is it the same in Monterey by your experience?

Thanks a lot.

Not sure about the Vega 56, but I just updated my Mac mini 2018 (AMD PRO W6600) from Monterey to Ventura, no problem with the external GPU so far.
Haven't had much problem running on Monterey too

 

[CC88]

Not sure about the Vega 56, but I just updated my Mac mini 2018 (AMD PRO W6600) from Monterey to Ventura, no problem with the external GPU so far.
Haven't had much problem running on Monterey too

Thanks. Are you able to put your mac in sleep mode without any issue with eGPU attached?

 

[quadcube]

Thanks. Are you able to put your mac in sleep mode without any issue with eGPU attached?

I think sleep works fine, haven't tested it extensively as I rarely sleep my Mac, usually only turn off the display when not in use without actually putting the Mac to sleep.