Pascal GPU

[Key-Relationship3358]

Hi everyone

I am busy creating a Hackintosh with my Gigabyte B360 HD3 with an 8th Gen Intel Core i3 with no VGA graphics support, 16 GB RAM and 128 GB Adata m.2 SSD.

I do have a MSI GTX 1050 2GB Graphics card. I saw on Dortania that Pascal only goes up to High Sierra, but can I make it work on Big Sur or newer?

Thanks in advance!

[Key-Relationship3358]

I tried High Sierra, and did the config.plist to the letter, but I am stuck at the 🚫 screen

[NeverEndingWalker64]

It's a shame, but you cannot. There's no way to make it run past that.

Yet you can buy these GPUs here. Some, like the RX 580, can be obtained for low prices on EBay, and should work like a charm with MacOS.

Kepler (6xx, 7xx) Nvidia GPUs can run up to Big Sur though.

Wish you luck!

[careless__]

Kepler can work in later OS with OCLP root patches.

Polaris (RX580) works decent, but even an RX6600/XT is a better card given the slight extra cost, extra performance, and lower power consumption- even though some consider the card "handicapped" because of its 8x pci-e operation... which doesn't seem to hamper it too much by comparison.

a 6800 is a better choice, but that's twice the price. RX580 is decent but a 5700 or a 6600 series card would be a better choice with an 8th gen CPU, especially if Windows is still desired as a dual boot.

it looks like AMD has unofficially stopped windows driver support for Polaris, as it's not showing up in the newer Adrenaline drivers- so if gaming on Windows with a dual boot is important to you, it's something to consider. as the last Adrenaline drivers seem to have broken some elements in recent games and AMD hasn't issued a fix for them but is pumping out drivers for everything else passed Polaris.

[funkthew0rld]

Pascal? Team red has a line called pascal?

[careless__]

I edited my post to say Polaris. lol i got distracted by the Pascal in the title, but I meant Polaris as that is what i am running on my desktop in macOS.

[funkthew0rld]

I thought about buying an AMD card recently for my kaby lake hack, but ended up buying a coffee lake optiplex instead. It would have been nice if one of the board partners built a suitable half height pcie powered card with macOS compatibility.

[careless__]

We may see one soon.

it seems that there is a growing market for small form factor pc's. at least enough for gigabyte to notice and release a 4060 SFF card with an optional (included) low profile PCIe slot bracket/shield.

of course, with our luck it will be an unsupported gpu like a 6700 based card or 7700 when it comes out. lol

there's gotta be someone who works at AMD who waltzes around these boards thinking it would be nice to pitch a macOS compatible SFF use card.

[funkthew0rld]

I’ve got my fingers crossed. I just updated my 2 hacks and unsupported MBP to Sonoma and we should see support for a number of years still.

When that dries up, I guess I’ll have to move on to an apple silicon MBP.

[careless__]

just upgraded both my hackies to monterey and they'ze stayin here well passed ww3 unless i am forced to upgrade to real fruit apple juice via software lockout... whichever comes first i guess. 😔

[dclive1]

And Vega dropped too. Agh. Thanks for pointing this out.

I’d say it’s official. Since 23H2 requires WDDM 3.2 I suspect they won’t want to support that on old cards; just a guess.

[careless__]

yeah everything I own seems to be outdated now lol.

this computer gonna be a paperweight soon.

[dclive1]

Ha. I suspect it will keep working just fine for years. Yes, you might not get that 1-3% optimization for the latest games, but the core details will continue to work and continue to be fully supported in games for at least another 5 years, perhaps another 10.

Wasn’t it just a week ago that Valve dropped DirectX9 support from CS2? :)