Aye, I'm thinking of dropping a Nvidia in to my system. I've got an old GT 120 in the drawer so I have a solution for boot screens etc. Seems less hassle than the AMD root.
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RX 480/470 owners - DO NOT update to 10.12.4 through App Store!
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In fact the only part that appears to be more hassle is opening my wallet three times as wide. Also I’m thinking of going Filevault and want as little as possible altered file system wise.
Yes. Just be sure the update runs and you'll be editing those plists to insert the appropriate string. Very straight forward.
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Yeah, I'm thinking about the same, but I want to see what comes with the new Mac Pros next year before I do anything too drastic. I have a beefy Hackintosh as well that works well enough to tide me over (splitting work between two workstations). The big thing is that Apple needs to get on the ball with the OS and get their core kernel team back to real work in optimizing, etc. The iOS prioritization has screwed everyone up who does REAL work and need a top notch kernel!
(Something that might be interesting to some here: http://blog.darlinghq.org & https://github.com/darlinghq/darling)
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Not really; for example:
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sudo nano /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX4100.kext/Contents/Info.plist # add 0x67DF1002 to IOPCIMatchMeans that you have to copy and past the string up to the #:
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sudo nano /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonX4100.kext/Contents/Info.plistFor beginners this page is more clear:
https://www.theitsage.com/install-radeon-rx-480-gpu-macos-sierra/
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But the new business is made of "iThings" only. Sad to say but the desktop Mac development is almost dead.
Just in case anyone was wondering, I made the mistake of actually upgrading my Sierra before seeing this thread and got to the dreaded black screen.
Was about to work around the issue by booting my Mac Pro to my MacBook Pro in Target Mode (fortunately they're both FireWire 800 devices) and changed the Kext files on the boot drive that way.
Using Kext Wizard (instead of Kext Utility) will allow you to choose the mounted boot drive as the target drive to clear all caches. I needed to shut down the laptop before turning off the Mac Pro for it to work (otherwise the boot drive won't eject properly), but it resolved the issue and I now have Sierra 12.4 working with the RX 480 and full acceleration.
Will be using "sudo softwareupdate -i -a" for all updates from now-on.
Hope this helps anyone who ran into the same issue as me - and does not want to go to the trouble of switching GPUs.
Now to try enable all CUs Baffin - anyone know if this works in 12.4?
Was about to work around the issue by booting my Mac Pro to my MacBook Pro in Target Mode (fortunately they're both FireWire 800 devices) and changed the Kext files on the boot drive that way.
Using Kext Wizard (instead of Kext Utility) will allow you to choose the mounted boot drive as the target drive to clear all caches. I needed to shut down the laptop before turning off the Mac Pro for it to work (otherwise the boot drive won't eject properly), but it resolved the issue and I now have Sierra 12.4 working with the RX 480 and full acceleration.
Will be using "sudo softwareupdate -i -a" for all updates from now-on.
Hope this helps anyone who ran into the same issue as me - and does not want to go to the trouble of switching GPUs.
Now to try enable all CUs Baffin - anyone know if this works in 12.4?
Looks like I'm not so lucky. It brought my card into overdrive and powers down my Mac whenever trying to run an OpenCL task (even Geekbenching it). Any ideas on how to disable it?
What RX470 brand you used? Is the factory overclocked model one? I'm assuming you're powered up your card using default mini 6 pin on your logicboard, probably powering your GPU directly from power supply using Pixlas by AndreeOnline mod will solve this.
Some case applied if you're using super powerful cards like new Titan Xp, mini 6 pin on logic board is not powerful enough to supply adequate juice for those card, but it will powering up if take the power from PSU directly, confirmed by this user, so i think your case is same.
How do you power this RX 470? I'm running a pair of reference cooler RX 480s with the stock PSU and PCIe booster 6-pin cables. All is well.
The latest 10.12.5 Beta 4 seems to improve performance quite a bit. Dual RX 480 runs BruceX (FCPX 10.3.3) in about 12 seconds.
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You should be able to put the mods back to original surely, did you not keep a copy of the executable?
To be clear, this is only when running the Baffin booster for all CUs. It was fine when I simply did the Kext update for Sierra 12.4
This is a Sapphire RX 480 Nitro 8GB: using a 6 to 8 pin converter directly from the board. Nothing special I believe.
The good news is I did a Pro Res and H.264 in Premiere last night and it was fine, although slower than usual (which is very odd, especially if all CUs are indeed opened up)
Yeah I have the executable, it's really the terminal command required to do this.
Just what I wanted to hear. Is it still the same arrangement though, (ie no drivers specific to the Ellesmere cards)?
There's confirmed Vega ID in macOS but my position is the same as Nvidia cards. Don't waste time with the cMP. Pairing such naff CPUs and slow I/O means it's not worth it.
Build Hackintosh, use Windows or use an Mantiz style eGPU tower with a MBP.
Build Hackintosh, use Windows or use an Mantiz style eGPU tower with a MBP.
The kext edits work the same as before. Upgrade through the Terminal, perform the edits, then restart.
Thanks for sticking your neck out there @theitsage. Notice any marked differences / improvements with .6 so far?
Huh, thanks... That's too bad. Anyone done a filesystem diff to see what subsystems are receiving focus on this update?
@theitsage what's the preferred method for installing combo updates via the shell? I'd like to install the last 10.12.5 combo update before stepping up to .6 and I was about to just run a pkg install from terminal via:
sudo installer -verboseR -pkg PACKAGE_NAME.pkg -target / -lang en
But then figured I should check in to see if anyone has had some exp here first.
sudo installer -verboseR -pkg PACKAGE_NAME.pkg -target / -lang en
But then figured I should check in to see if anyone has had some exp here first.