Laptop graphic cards

[magicpriest]

Hello! After quick search and finding nothing, I came here with a simple problem. I'm wondering if there is Amd radeon that works OOB cards (for example my rx 560), is there any graphic card that works on laptop? First look was at Clevo like devices with dedicated PCI cards, but maybe there is a list of working solitions or any other source?

[magicpriest]

1 hour ago, Hervé said:

Of course there are! OS X/macOS includes a set of drivers that support ranges/families of nVidia and/or ATI/AMD cards. Many cards that belong to those families will be supported OOB. I would not be able to give much in terms of a list but you can start looking at the wiki even though it's not very up-to-date these days. But you'll find plenty of references.

 

It's not exactly clear what you mean by laptops by the way... Do you mean discrete cards that are fitted inside the laptop or were you referring to eGPU?

Hi, Herve.

Thank you for your reply.

Yeah, I've run through AMD*000Controller.kext's and noticed that there are plenty and more of Amd supported cards. At the moment I'm digging github for examples of exact hardware, but the most correlation thing I've found is this repo and etc.

 

My bad, of course I mean an discrete cards. Obviously not Optimus or Amd Switch based. I'm working in really hard conditions, where having a macbook is real pain, so I'm looking for a decent laptop with real pci-e based card (or any other way to enable videocard). For example, brand named Clevo long time ago produced a lot of laptops for our markets with switchable cards, my previous laptop was based on Quadro k4000m (or something like this), so OSX from 10.6.8 to 10.8.* works perfectly.

 

In conclusion, my goal is find perfect laptop with most recent hardware and video card that works separately from chipset and any technologies that not work on OSX/Linux. (I know its a bit irrelevant, but I suppose that if an discrete video card is working under linux as separated device and working nearly OOB under modern kernels version, its my choice).

 

PS: Why I so obsessed with OSX and discrete video? It's simple, our engineers constructed software that works under OSX or Linux, and obviously this software rely on GPU (working with e-GPU is dream).

[Slice]

I may propose that Nvidia Kepler family cards will work OOB (640-770).

Fermi card will work in 10.11.6 only.

Not sure about AMD.