Rajesh_Pandey Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 So, I have been using a Hackintosh for almost two years now. Ever since I have upgraded to High Sierra though, I have noticed a serious decline in its performance. And this is even after a clean install over the last weekend. Day to day performance of the machine is fine. I can browse Chrome with 20+ tabs open without any issues. However, rendering time of Final Cut Pro X has gone out of hand. Earlier today, I tried exporting a 6-minute video with only some basic color correction applied and the whole process was not even complete even after an hour. I have previously exported videos with more effects, transitions etc. of similar length in only around 20 mins. I thought that the issue was due to my GPU not working to its full potential. I fired up Cinebench and noticed my CPU score of 684 was far lower than what they should be. I see a similar story in Geekbench 4 where my OC'd 6600K scores lower than other machines featuring the same processor as well. Screenshot of my Geekbench and Cinebench scores:https://imgur.com/a/28RM9 Interestingly, I see that Cinebench is reporting my 6600K as having 2 cores and 4 threads when it is actually a quad-core CPU. I tried the BruceX benchmark. The whole thing took 43 seconds at the settings mentioned. However, for the second run, I switched the export to 'Web Hosting' and H.264 Better Quality in FCP X. Took over 4 minutes and the render was still not complete. Hackintosh specs: Intel 6600K at 4.2GHz, 16GB RAM, Samsung 850 EVO SSD, AMD R9 270X, Dual-monitor setup Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/330887-poor-rendering-performance-on-high-sierra/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigamaxx Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 With the clean install did you run a fresh clover? . Check your config. plist look at CPU tuning disable halt enabler and pstates also binaries to see that only appleRT is checked then go to ACPI settings and uncheck everything. A fresh Clover install has many default settings that you don't need for the skylake CPU. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/330887-poor-rendering-performance-on-high-sierra/#findComment-2554901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajesh_Pandey Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 With the clean install did you run a fresh clover? . Check your config. plist look at CPU tuning disable halt enabler and pstates also binaries to see that only appleRT is checked then go to ACPI settings and uncheck everything. A fresh Clover install has many default settings that you don't need for the skylake CPU. Yes, it was a clean install of Clover since I was having performance issues prior to the clean install as well. I have attached my config.plist. Have a look yourself. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/330887-poor-rendering-performance-on-high-sierra/#findComment-2555057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigamaxx Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Yes, it was a clean install of Clover since I was having performance issues prior to the clean install as well. I have attached my config.plist. Have a look yourself. Its not attached, can you try again? You may have to right click and compress it to post it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/330887-poor-rendering-performance-on-high-sierra/#findComment-2555068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rajesh_Pandey Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 Its not attached, can you try again? You may have to right click and compress it to post it. My bad. Attached now. config.plist.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/330887-poor-rendering-performance-on-high-sierra/#findComment-2555122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munakib Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Can you share Geekbench Compute score (not the CPU benchmark) and Cinebench R15 OpenGL scores? My bad. Attached now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/330887-poor-rendering-performance-on-high-sierra/#findComment-2557091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavo Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 So, I have been using a Hackintosh for almost two years now. Ever since I have upgraded to High Sierra though, I have noticed a serious decline in its performance. And this is even after a clean install over the last weekend. Day to day performance of the machine is fine. I can browse Chrome with 20+ tabs open without any issues. However, rendering time of Final Cut Pro X has gone out of hand. Earlier today, I tried exporting a 6-minute video with only some basic color correction applied and the whole process was not even complete even after an hour. I have previously exported videos with more effects, transitions etc. of similar length in only around 20 mins. I thought that the issue was due to my GPU not working to its full potential. I fired up Cinebench and noticed my CPU score of 684 was far lower than what they should be. I see a similar story in Geekbench 4 where my OC'd 6600K scores lower than other machines featuring the same processor as well. Screenshot of my Geekbench and Cinebench scores:https://imgur.com/a/28RM9 Interestingly, I see that Cinebench is reporting my 6600K as having 2 cores and 4 threads when it is actually a quad-core CPU. I tried the BruceX benchmark. The whole thing took 43 seconds at the settings mentioned. However, for the second run, I switched the export to 'Web Hosting' and H.264 Better Quality in FCP X. Took over 4 minutes and the render was still not complete. Hackintosh specs: Intel 6600K at 4.2GHz, 16GB RAM, Samsung 850 EVO SSD, AMD R9 270X, Dual-monitor setup Please attach your whole EFI folder. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/330887-poor-rendering-performance-on-high-sierra/#findComment-2557210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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