Radeon VII compatible with Mac?  

Would be very interested in wild lands FPS as it’s a game I also play...

It works, but it has no drivers. So you'll get the desktop, but the software rendering is sluggish, at least in 4K.
Anything using Metal or OpenCL will complain there's no compatible device present. Read somewhere 10.14.4 might have support.

Posted by: Arden Shibley

Got my Radeon VII and Razer Core X.

Can confirm, doesn't work.

• Called Razer, they were not very helpful.
• Called AMD, their Radeon VII team told me (as I see here) to wait for MacOS 10.14.4.

Currently plugging the Core X into the MBP with Radeon VII inside yields "No GPU detected" or a hard shutdown of the Mac, complete with a few seconds of 100% RPM on both internal fans... never seen (heard) that before.

Anyway...... we wait.

Thanks for sharing very promising, let’s hope for next beta!

Posted by: ikir

Thanks for sharing very promising, let’s hope for next beta!

You bet! I can't say I'm not watching MacRumours very, very closely... =P

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13947/amd-releases-radeon-pro-software-for-enterprise-19q1

Has anyone tried this driver and obtained Xconnect support for Radeon VII in Windows?

I can wait for Apple to bake in support but would be good to be able to get the RVII for my windows laptop.

Posted by: Kelvin Tan

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13947/amd-releases-radeon-pro-software-for-enterprise-19q1

Has anyone tried this driver and obtained Xconnect support for Radeon VII in Windows?

I can wait for Apple to bake in support but would be good to be able to get the RVII for my windows laptop.

I'm pretty shure I read somewhere, that the support of VII is planned, but not yet implemented. The VII is also not listed under supported graphic cards in driver release notes.

Edit: Seems that AMD has released a new driver for the VII (date of today), with the same version (Adrenalin 19.2.1) but WHQL certified. I assume that nothing has changed in the package (still no eGPU support).

Greetings,
roedi78

Posted by: Kelvin Tan

Has anyone tried this driver and obtained Xconnect support for Radeon VII in Windows?

I can wait for Apple to bake in support but would be good to be able to get the RVII for my windows laptop.

I got it working in BootCamp Win10! So I'm pretty sure that it will work on a Windows laptop, too.
See here: 

https://egpu.io/forums/gpu-monitor-peripherals/amd-radeon-vii-seven-available-february-7th-699/paged/2/#post-54466

Posted by: Roedi78

Posted by: Kelvin Tan

Has anyone tried this driver and obtained Xconnect support for Radeon VII in Windows?

I can wait for Apple to bake in support but would be good to be able to get the RVII for my windows laptop.

I got it working in BootCamp Win10! So I'm pretty sure that it will work on a Windows laptop, too.
See here: 

https://egpu.io/forums/gpu-monitor-peripherals/amd-radeon-vii-seven-available-february-7th-699/paged/2/#post-54466

yeeessss!! Awesome news!

since i don't have a gaming monitor with free sync ... i only get 60 fps max in 1440p ... but average fps in high / very high settings in the high 40 to high 50 fps ... so pretty good for my taste... better than with my GTX960 4GB I had before in this system.

so here is my (long) video about my Radeon VII experience with my 2010 MacPro with a Windows 10 Bootcamp system... for Gaming and Video editing and so on... 

New beta out, please bring us some good news   🙂

Yes, fingers crossed.  No mention of it here:   https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/18/apple-issues-third-developer-beta-of-macos-mojave-10144

I installed 10.14.4 Developer Beta 3 [18E194d] on my 2018 13" MacBook Pro just now. Radeon VII didn't work by default. I found the missing link to make it work. More details soon.

Posted by: theitsage

I installed 10.14.4 Developer Beta 3 [18E194d] on my 2018 13" MacBook Pro just now. Radeon VII didn't work by default. I found the missing link to make it work. More details soon.

Nice! I just bought it 2 days ago while i was in Vegas, got it from Fry's, however it kinda sucks that i didn't get the deal of the 3 games. So were you able to make it work or you just figure that there is a new driver but it is not linked or had a bad device id?

UPDATE: I got the 3 games, just had to email the store and they replied with the AMD Reward code.

@itsage you da man!  (Or person!). Look forward to hearing the details and if you think it Radeon VII will be officially supported in 10.14.4 or it's a hack/workaround to make it work.

@juan_c_yunis and @screendor The details are in my build guide. Basically add 0x66af1002 to AMDXRadeon5000.kext.

New dev beta to test!!

I ran the update and checked AMDXRadeon5000.kext but 0x66af1002 is not in there yet.

@itsage do you see any improvements? Also, does it say prototype?

Posted by: theitsage

I ran the update and checked AMDXRadeon5000.kext but 0x66af1002 is not in there yet.

Damn i was really hoping for this!

Hey @ikir,  I too purchased the Radeon VII & Razor Core with the plans to rock my '18 MBP and more specifically Davinci Resolve/C4D/AE....  and possibly some gaming when work is done.    I initially had HighSierra on it and it kinda recognized it as an unknown.. so I had hope ... then dove into eGPU.io (#amazingresource) and am caught up and waiting patiently until our day comes...  thanks for verifying that I'm not crazy for buying combo (#hadtohaveit).   Eyes/ears=Open.    Best, Ron

Posted by: editology

Hey @ikir,  I too purchased the Radeon VII & Razor Core with the plans to rock my '18 MBP and more specifically Davinci Resolve/C4D/AE....  and possibly some gaming when work is done.    I initially had HighSierra on it and it kinda recognized it as an unknown.. so I had hope ... then dove into eGPU.io (#amazingresource) and am caught up and waiting patiently until our day comes...  thanks for verifying that I'm not crazy for buying combo (#hadtohaveit).   Eyes/ears=Open.    Best, Ron

I am exactly in the same boat and have been checking this thread every day for any good news. Currently running Radeon VII on Razor Core on 18 MacBook Pro but via Bootcamp. Games run good but my biggest complaint is if the computer sleeps or shuts down while the eGPU is connected the fans on the Radeon VII card will run at full speed, and f I don't disconnect or shut down the eGPU the fans will run for hours. Anyone currently running it on bootcamp and has similar issues? More importantly, is there a fix or solution to this because I hate to keep disconnecting and  reconnecting my eGPU? I have updated the bios of the card but that did not fix it.

@barretts Have the Radeon VII on a Razer Core X, and the fans runs at full speed too if system sleeps or shuts down. Only way is to disconnect TB cable, or power off Razer Core X. @juan_c_yunis commented updating the firmware helps with this issue, but I've updated and it's still the same.

Funnily, the Radeon VII in a Mantiz Venus, paired with a Thinkpad X1 Tablet g3 works. The fans don't blast away when the system goes to sleep or shutdown. I'm not sure what to make of it too.

Posted by: Kelvin Tan

@barretts Have the Radeon VII on a Razer Core X, and the fans runs at full speed too if system sleeps or shuts down. Only way is to disconnect TB cable, or power off Razer Core X. @juan_c_yunis commented updating the firmware helps with this issue, but I've updated and it's still the same.

Funnily, the Radeon VII in a Mantiz Venus, paired with a Thinkpad X1 Tablet g3 works. The fans don't blast away when the system goes to sleep or shutdown. I'm not sure what to make of it too.

I was using a Vega 64 in the Razor Core X a few weeks back and did not run into this issue.

@barretts the Vega 56/64 works well in the core X, it's what I'm using too till the driver situation get sorted. Hopefully when the official driver drops it'll fixfthis full fan blast issue too.

We must be patient, but i'm I will refresh this page like a crazy 🙂 

i’m still not sure the support will come this fast anyway, fingers crossed.

Posted by: Kelvin Tan

@barretts Have the Radeon VII on a Razer Core X, and the fans runs at full speed too if system sleeps or shuts down. Only way is to disconnect TB cable, or power off Razer Core X. @juan_c_yunis commented updating the firmware helps with this issue, but I've updated and it's still the same.

Funnily, the Radeon VII in a Mantiz Venus, paired with a Thinkpad X1 Tablet g3 works. The fans don't blast away when the system goes to sleep or shutdown. I'm not sure what to make of it too.

I have the same problem when I connect the radeon VII.
When using the RTX 2080, that doens't happen.
At least under macOS.
I expect that it is because of the drivers not being up to par. Once 10.14.4 comes out, I expect it to be fixed.

Not sure why, but this doesn't happen to me anymore since i updated the BIOS, could it be that it works different with a Mac Mini 2018?

We have a new beta this morning (10.14.4 beta 5). Anyone had a chance to try it yet for Radeon VII support?

@robin_martin i just installed it and no luck, i had to manually inject the device id and it is still recognized as a vega10 unknown prototype.

@juan_c_yunis how's stability on MacOS? Am keen to try out the Radeon VII again since I got a new card from RMAing my first one, but if it still crashes etc I can't use it as a daily driver.

I can confirm what @juan_c_yunis said. Same as previous 10.14.4 betas, the PCI ID 66af is only found in two kexts, AMDRadeonX5000HWServices.kext and AMD10000Controller.kext. In order to make it work, we need to inject the PCI ID into AMDRadeonX5000.kext to borrow Vega 10 drivers. Official macOS drivers for the Radeon VII may not arrive in 10.14.4 public release at this rate.

@itsage yeah, exactly my thoughts. At this point it feels that it won't make it.

My hope is that a variant of the Radeon VII is going to make it in the new Mac Pro. WWDC is 3 months away so Apple probably is taking their time optimizing the drivers.

@itsage
Still unstable? It is completely normal, just to know even if we need manual edit maybe stability has improved

@itsage makes sense, however i do expect AMD pushing Apple to make it work, according to one of the users here, he contacted AMD and he said that it would be supported for 10.14.4. 

@kelvin_tan @ikir yes it is still unstable, i just had a freeze and had to reboot. So let's hope it gets fixed soon.

@juan_c_yunis @itsage Bummer. 

I played around with the kext updating process to make sure my rig was working but I haven't stress tested it yet. I might throw some real video editing projects at it this week and see how it handles.