Alu Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Hello, I want to buy a new Graphics Card for my hackintosh. My hackintosh is fully working exspect the graphics. I searched on the internet to find out witch card is good for me. Before I forgot it i am using Clover.The amd r9 290x has a very good price. So will the r9 290x work in yosemite correctly? I only want to use one screen. Is the displayport working perfect? Because in the future i want to use a 4k screen. I want to use the Card for some gaming on Windows and office, browsing and some unprofessional photoshop and premiere on OS X. And just one more question, witch brand should i buy, or os this not important for os x? Thanks and best regards from Germany Alex Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adom Doledas Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 It works out of the box, but doesn't mean that it will work "perfectly", it totally depends on your system (meaning on rare cases you might get some acceleration issues and stuffs). If you're just using 1 monitor then you'll mostly be fine (unless you want your Mac to recognize your card as "R9 290X" properly instead of "AMD 8xxx Graphics"), the DisplayPort seems to always work. The trick is to get it to run with multiple monitors, especially on the newest update 10.10.4, check my other thread in this forum to get the better idea of what I'm talking about. And who knows if 10.11 El Capitan will make it better or worse, so nothing guaranteed, especially when you want to upgrade to multiple monitors in the future to improve your digital workspace. Regarding its price, the R9 290X is indeed now very appealing, but as I see, a lot of people are using nVidia graphics, especially 970/980/980Ti. Those seem to be running fine as well, and if you ever run into trouble (which is highly to occur) a bigger community tends to have your problem solved faster (my question in the other thread is still unanswered due to low number of people who have the same specs I think). As for 290X brands, it's not important, find the cheapest one you can get, unless you care about performance and temps, then the Sapphire 290X Vapor-X is the best. I myself am using the MSI R9 290X Gaming OC (4G~4GB version) in CrossFire with Sapphire Tri-X R9 290X 4GB. The Sapphire was much better to me, even when MSI claims to have their cooler "more advanced". Hope it helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2150416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alu Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 hi, thank you very mutch for your answer. I will wait untill i see a good offer. Best Regards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2150423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavo Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 290X works perfectly without any injection on 1 monitor I am using DP without injection and have no issues Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2150438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adom Doledas Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 290X works perfectly without any injection on 1 monitor I am using DP without injection and have no issues I can confirm this, except for 1 thing that in "About this Mac" it will show my card as AMD 8xxx instead of 290X, that's why I prefer injection. Plus the graphics tend to run more smoothly if injected, not just for the "official" 290X report in About window. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2150439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alu Posted July 5, 2015 Author Share Posted July 5, 2015 hi, I have now orderd a sapphire r9 290x. I want to inject the graphic card. Is it right that i just have to put the id in Clover config.plist on the efi partition? Hope somone can help me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2150942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 [HOW TO] Make Radeon {Desktop or Mobility} be working by using Clover Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2151411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picasso Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hi, someone with Sapphire R9 290X Reference card, to work in Yosemite with Clover? I need full acceleration in ONE monitor. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2161709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alu Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hi, i have exacly this card with one monitor and it works just perfectly fine out of the box. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2161768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picasso Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 @Alu can you share two test, Cinebench Open GL and Heaven Unigine Extreme setting? Off topic: I am interesting to do a complete thread about this card, with all the information at the moment and the way to do this works under clover. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2161830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logik Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Some people say it works out of the box, no injection. Others say you need WhateverGreen. Others say you need injection/patches. Nothing worked for my XFX R9 290X. I tried it all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/306930-amd-r9-290x-will-it-work-perfectly/#findComment-2629998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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