astroguy Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Hi Folks. I have a Hackintosh I built in the middle of the summer but I've been holding off on making it my main computer and even installing a GPU since I've been mainly using it to run code for work (that requires OS X). I'm running 10.13.6 on it but do plan in the near-ish future to upgrade to 10.14. Reading some about Apple's apparently contentious relationship with NVIDIA, I found out that they are not offering native NVIDIA graphics support in 10.14, so I figured I may as well, when shopping for a GPU for this, go with AMD. I don't need anything fancy, but I'd like to get something that will last several years. (My main Hackintosh is running on an NVIDIA 970, still.) I'm looking at the AMD RX 590. I did some searching on here and did not find any obvious support, nor a large number of success stories (found one), but neither did I find a large number of problems (two, I think). So before I plop down $270, can y'all tell me if this is a generally well supported card in macOS and the Hackintosh world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigamaxx Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 The Sapphire Nitro and Powercolor Red Devil both work well in Mojave. They don’t work well in High Sierra. XFX Fat Boy dordnt work due to vbios not compatible. I was getting geekbench compute scores of 150,000 plus vs 140,000 for RX 580. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astroguy Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 Sapphire Nitro and Powercolor Red Devil ... 590? Doing a quick internet search says they come in both 580 and 590. Also, it sounds like I should probably upgrade to 10.14.2 before buying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Frio Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 hi... let me add some stuff I read... -the gt 710 are more reliable than some gt730 brands...(some are Kepler others not..check if you decide for it) -read that some XFX RX series can have some issues.. -I have rx 460 and 560 and seem to be ok...on Mojave 10.14.3 beta and just bought an rx 580..didn't try yet.. but it will work(I hope) c.frio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danual Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 No issues with an asus 570Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astroguy Posted February 9, 2019 Author Share Posted February 9, 2019 (edited) Wow, sorry, for some reason I completely forgot about this thread and haven't figured out how to turn on e-mail notifications. Thanks for all the suggestions, I will look into it more and probably buy today. If Apple and NVIDIA aren't getting along, I'd rather go with AMD in general just in case Apple decides to pull support. And for mid-range cards, it looks like AMD can get me a bit better performance for a given price point. Oh, and when I wrote that I don't need anything fancy, I do occasionally like to play Civ VI. So a capable card would be nice. There's a tiny, tiny possibility that I'll be getting into some machine learning code for planetary feature identification that runs on GPUs, but if that happens I'll be getting a $1k GPU, so that's an entirely separate discussion Edited February 9, 2019 by astroguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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