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CMMChris said:
Really?! Passionate hackintosh users probably have the most in-depth knowledge of the macOS operating system. Apple knows that.
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No doubt. And please don't get me wrong. I never said the opposite. In fact, I very much feel the same passion :)

CMMChris said:
They also never had problems with hackintosh users submitting bug reports in the past. I personally had an Apple engineer on mine via remote access to investigate an issue back in early 2019. Surprisingly, he even knew how to handle Clover. Not joking.
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That's interesting. What I'm saying is that if we want results we should try to tread irreproachably.
 
i use on one of my cMP radeonboost 1.0 in OC 0.5.7 with a sapphire reference vega64
and no fan bug in mojave 10.14.6 with latest SU or catalina 10.15.4
 
startergo said:
Well this is all good, but the real question is do they care about vintage computers?
More likely iMacPro1,1 or 7,1 users can do it, but can anybody else?
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Is there any harm in reporting following the items outlined by @h9826790 even if on a vintage machine that is supposed to be supported?
 
Dayo said:
Shame. Is this confirmed or assumed?
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In this particular case it is not that they did not try to fix it. It took Apple more than a year. Because they could not find a proper fix they compromised.
 
IndioX said:
i use on one of my cMP radeonboost 1.0 in OC 0.5.7 with a sapphire reference vega64
and no fan bug in mojave 10.14.6 with latest SU or catalina 10.15.4
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Can you please share your version of RadeonBoost, I'm really curious about giving it a go to see how it affects my FinalCut performance, and if the fan issue is present, and if it is, can I live with it when working or not.
 
startergo said:
Well this is all good, but the real question is do they care about vintage computers?
More likely iMacPro1,1 or 7,1 users can do it, but can anybody else?
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It's Mojave's issue, and 5,1 is supported in Mojave. According to this page, just no more hardware support for obsolete products, not software.

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Or, how about we make step 5 "Run GeekBench 5 Metal test on a Mac Pro 7,1 with that same Vega 64 in any version of Catalina"?. We just use the 5,1 as the reference.

We know this bug still exist in Catalina. An obsoleted Mac Pro 5,1 allow the same Vega 64 performance better than on the latest Mac Pro 7,1. May be they will care more?
 
I think I see double :) Vintage:

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Obsolete:
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How will the average user know if his cMP was made 2010 or 2012?
Joke aside, don't get me wrong I see no issue if everybody complains. We just have to select the right wording.
 
h9826790 said:
If we submit bug report about "fan speed issue with RadeonBoost installed", then they will reply "contact the developer of RadeonBoost".
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No need to mention RadeonBoost. The kext just injects some additional driver parameters that Apple do use on their own GPUs. You could add them manually to AMD10000Controller / AMDX6000Framebuffer as well without using any additional kext or hackintosh bootloaders.
 
CMMChris said:
No need to mention RadeonBoost. The kext just injects some additional driver parameters that Apple do use on their own GPUs. You could add them manually to AMD10000Controller / AMDX6000Framebuffer as well without using any additional kext or hackintosh bootloaders.
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I know, but we still can’t tell them “fan bug exist if we mod the AMD10000controller kext”. That’s why I believe we should not submit a “fan bug”.

For 10.14.5 and later, there is no fan bug by default, but performance bug. Even we know that performance bug was come from the fan bug fix, but we still better submit the “current bug” directly. But not altering the kext, then submit a fan bug that’s induced by our work around (for fixing the performance bug).

The aim is to ask Apple to fix the GPU driver anyway.
 
I've tested RadeonBoost 1.0 on my setup (thanks to @IndioX for the legacy version), and the results are... Well, astonishing:

OpenCL 48884 → 64475
Metal 58534 → 81678

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Metal (Before).png Metal (After).png

The difference is scary. I can even somewhat acceptably work with RED RAW 8K files in FCPX. Even with the potential fan racing issue (haven't spotted it yet) this warrants some hassle with reboots in case if I want enable/disable RadeonBoost before/after work sessions.

Thank you, @CMMChris! It's so disappointing to see Apple's half-hearted attitude and overall indifference to things like that.
 
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funny, this version (1.0) does not make a turbo fan with the vega64
at the last one in my signature under catalina or mojave

which brand and type is your card?

mine is the sapphire radeon RX vega64 in reference design
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IndioX said:
funny, this version does not make me a turbo fan with the vega64
which brand and type is your card?
mine is the sapphire radeon RX vega64 in reference design:
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I've experimented a little bit with enabling Vega64 in 1.4 and achieved even better results in OpenCL, now it's 66124, while Metal is a hair slower — 80757.

I don't have a fan issue, never had it. But as soon as I bought my card I flashed it with Sapphire BIOS as per this thread. There are a lot of info of this problem, and _some_ Vega cards apparently don't have it. But I full expect it can still reveal itself under some heavy load with new kext.
 
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CMMChris said:
The reference cards usually stay quiet as long as they haven't been under full load for a while.
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Just tested a looped FCPX playback of a RED RAW 8K footage for 5 minutes, which made the whole system hot and loud. Stopped, and all the fans spun down shortly, Radeon fan fully stopped 🤷‍♂️
 
I benchmarked Rise of the Tomb Raider with and without on my Radeon VII and was going to share the numbers / settings but didn't find a discernible difference. Will test Hitman as well.
 
Hello,

I have been reading all the previous posts and I can't seem to find a definitive answer re increased performance for the Radeon Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB. Can anyone share their experience with the same card ?? I am a photographer and also shot and edit video footage.

Mac Pro Tower 5,1 MacOS Mojave
2x core 3.46 GHz 6 Core Intel Xeon
128GB 1333 MHz DDDR3
Graphics Radeon Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB
SSD SATA boot drive
USB 3 PCEI card

Cheers

John Paul Urizar
 
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