Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
MP All Models Tired of low Geekbench scores? Use RadeonBoost!
- Thread starter CMMChris
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
It's a codeless kext so you won't see it loaded. If your GPU / display info containts EFI and VBIOS versions the kext does work. 51k is allright for an RX580.
Luxmark and Furmark shouldn't be affected.
I don't think this kext helps anything for OpenGL (yet?). At least not from my own test / observation. But it also won't decrease OpenGL performance.
This is my Furmark result. No RadeonBoost
This is with the RadeonBoost
That 9FPS improvement should be nothing related to the Radeon Boost kext. I ran the first test long time ago (on the first day I got my card), by that time, I haven't figure out how to downvolt the GPU yet. And the 2nd test run with Radeon Boost with PowerPlay table injected. I know I shouldn't allow two variables at the same time. However, the minor change in scores should be reasonable enough to conclude that won't affect the OpenGL performance.
It definitely does affect OpenGL/CL and Metal performance. It just isn't noticeable in all benchmarks - just like on Geekbench where just a couple of the sub-tests benefit from RadeonBoost.
If some experience failed boot with RadeonBoost on Navi10 and Navi14 cards: I am already working on a fix for that.
pugetbench (v08) test photoshop (21.0.3)
without radeonboost:
with radeonboost:
without radeonboost:
with radeonboost:
@Tizucumacu @zozomester Nothing I can do about that. Issue does not exist on a Hackintosh. Appears to be some firmware issue.
CMMChris, do you think it's possible to build a customised fan profile for the Vega64, and inject it via PP table?
I think this is worth for them to try. At least, I don't know any other better approach.
No, all I did was drop the RadeonBoost.kext in /L/E, repaired permissions and rebooted. You said it shouldn't interfere with my PPT.
As soon as I removed the RB kext my score went back to normal as well as fan noise.
Strange. Maybe FE is too different from the regular Vega 64 to work with those properties :/
If you are interested we can experiment with changing parameters via private message.
If you are interested we can experiment with changing parameters via private message.
So a few things changed between benches ... but still the same version of macOS and the same hardware.
Updated to a newer beta SSE4.2 emulator from @Syncretic
Added RadeonBoost
Updated WEG/Lilu versions
RX580 4Gb Pulse on the cMP 3,1
GB5 scores:
Metal Before 40,845
Metal After 48,462
OpenCL Before 38,830
OpenCL After 43,246
Updated to a newer beta SSE4.2 emulator from @Syncretic
Added RadeonBoost
Updated WEG/Lilu versions
RX580 4Gb Pulse on the cMP 3,1
GB5 scores:
Metal Before 40,845
Metal After 48,462
OpenCL Before 38,830
OpenCL After 43,246
Last edited:
No, it's all original to me. If I remove the Radeonboost Kext, the fan will run normally.
I mean put a PP table inside the Radeon Boost kext to override the original fan control, and see if that fix this high fan speed issue.
This fan profile can be identical to the original one, just see if the driver can control the fan better.
You can remove MacPro4,1 SMBIOS support since MP4,1 are limited to El Capitan and El Capitan don't support of the Polaris/VEGA/NAVI GPUs.
Yep, but no one will be running a MP4,1 firmware with Mojave/Catalina, since MP4,1 don't support APFS.