Also, has Apple ever skipped support of certain AMD cards in recent years. What’s the chance of being stuck with an unsupported VII card indefinitely?
Y'ever hear of Nvidia? Apple's been skipping their everything since MacOS Mojave. =P
I dunno... I don't think they've got any glaring omissions...
2018 15" MBP, 2.6GHz 32GB 1TB Vega Pro 20, Razer Core X, AMD Radeon VII (Waiting for OS X Drivers), MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave
Yep, that’s why I specifically referred to AMD. CUDA support in Adobe apps can take a hike. Give me that Metal hotness!!
2018 MBP i9, 32GB, Vega 20; Razer Core X, Radeon VII
I know, I know. I kid. 😛
2018 15" MBP, 2.6GHz 32GB 1TB Vega Pro 20, Razer Core X, AMD Radeon VII (Waiting for OS X Drivers), MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 Wave
No great surprise, let’s hope for 10.14.5 beta which should be out soon
MacBook Pro 13" 2020 Touch Bar M1 8-core CPU 8-core GPU - 16GB unified memory - 512GB PCIe SSD
MacBook Pro 13" 2020 Touch Bar i7 quad-core 2.3Ghz - 16GB RAM - 1TB PCIe SSD
my awesome Radeon VII eGPU
my Mantiz Venus extreme mod with Sapphire Nitro+ RX Vega 64
2018 13" MacBook Pro [8th,4C,U] + Radeon VII @ 32Gbps-TB3 (Mantiz Venus) + macOS 10.15 [build link]
This kinda.... sucks really.
I don't know if its AMD or apple, and I know that apple takes their sweet time with approving anything, but this behavior sometimes is really pushing the limits of giving the middle finger to customers.
It's clear: They have enough RX590, Vega 56 and 64 to sell. Moreover the new iMac Pro with Vega 64X must be sold, too.
What's Radeon VII then? A Windows gaming card, as powerful as the all mighty GTX 1080 Ti. Only: It's not.
2018 15" MBP & 2015 13" MBP connected to RTX2080Ti GTX1080Ti GTX1080 Vega56 RX580 R9-290 GTX680
2018 15" MacBook Pro (RP560X) [8th,6C,H] + RX 5700 XT @ 32Gbps-TB3 (ASUS XG Station Pro) + Win10 & macOS 10.15.4 [build link]
Funny thing is that you can get the VII at discounted price with the 3 games in Newegg, the PowerColor version, it's $679.
2018 Mac Mini Core i7 8700B 32GB RAM 512GB SSD + Razer Core X + AMD Radeon VII
Hey guys,
I wrote to AMD support and explicitly asked for macOS 10.14. support of Radeon VII.
That's what they've answered:
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Dear xxx,
Your service request : SR #{ticketno:[xxx]} has been reviewed and updated.
Response and Service Request History:
Thank you for your email.
I understand that you wish to have drivers to support eGPU and Radeon VII together in your MacBook Pro in macOS 10.14.
This is not supported at the moment and there are no compatible drivers available.
However, we cannot comment on future plans, For MacOS driver support is provided by Apple in the OS. If you wish to know the available drivers For Apple Boot Camp driver.
I suggest you to please periodically check our Apple Boot Camp driver page for updates: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/apple-boot-camp
Thanks for contacting AMD.
In order to update this service request, please respond, leaving the service request reference intact.
Best regards,
xxx
AMD Global Customer Care
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"For MacOS driver support is provided by Apple in the OS" sounds like Apple develops the driver on their own.
Ok, who wants to contact Apple Support and ask them the same question? 😉
MacBook Pro 15" Late-2016 w/TB 16GB with RP460 4GB
Mac Mini 2018, 64GB, i7-8700B, 6-core, 3,2GHz
macOS Catalina 11.2 Beta w/Win10 (20H2) BootCamp
Gigabyte AORUS RTX 3080 Gaming Box 10GB
2018 Mac Mini [8th,6C,B] + RTX 3080 @ 32Gbps-TB3 (AORUS Gaming Box) + Win10 20H2 [build link]
"For MacOS driver support is provided by Apple in the OS" sounds like Apple develops the driver on their own.
Ok, who wants to contact Apple Support and ask them the same question? 😉
It doesn't mean that apple are making the driver on their own.
It only means that you can get drivers only through the OS itself.
AMD makes the drivers, ship them to apple, and apple test and validate the drivers, they then put them into the OS, and ship them with the next update.
Historically Apple was never in hurry to provide drivers for current generation graphics cards. For example the Polaris GPU series became available on June 29th, 2016. The official support for Polaris GPUs were available with 10.12.6 update on October 31st, 2017. Prior to this software update, we were relying on kext injection to make them work.
The Fiji series, R9 Fury cards have never been officially supported. The drivers were working/non-working through many macOS versions but Apple never used them in any Macs. WWDC19 is when we have a good idea whether Radeon VII would have official support in macOS and eGPU.
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2020 14" MSI Prestige 14 EVO [11th,4C,G] + RTX 3080 @ 32Gbps-TB4 (AORUS Gaming Box) + Win10 2004 [build link]