There’s also one possible exception to the “Newer than Hawaii” rule for the reset bug: The Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Pulse (Model SKU 1G) - these cards were shipped with the Apple eGPU dev kits and we’ve had at least a few reports of successful resets with this model. You may want to pass a supported rom or update to the most recent vbios as well to make sure you have a revision that will work, because some cards from this era did not ship with UEFI support. You can check if your card supports UEFI boot on the Tom’s Hardware VBIOS Archives. The D Series was designed specifically for Macs. The models that fit this description are: The Firepro W7000, 8000, 9000, and D300, 500, 700 Cards. XFX Cards can cause kernel panics on some models, the brand should generally be avoided Any Firepro Card Based on CGN 1.0 that supports UEFI boot **.Any 7850/70 or 270/X that supports UEFI boot *.Any 7950/70 or 280/X that supports UEFI boot *.Mac OS is finnicky and won’t work if you don’t have an exact PCIe ID match, so, buyer beware, but generally we feel safe recommending these models: However, the drivers mojave ships with with support many cards out of the box as well. Well, Apple explicitly lists exactly 1 “metal capable” reset bug free card in their Mojave announcement: So where does that leave us? Explicitly Supported Cards Narrowing things down Further, we know that cards too old to support UEFI Boot won’t work either, except for the special UGA variants pulled from or made for old mac pros, but those end support in 10.14 Mojave, so they aren’t worth talking about. Apple Drivers support the RX 400 and 500 series as well as Vega/Fury Cards, but it isn’t advisable to pick one up unless you never plan on rebooting your VM. All newer cards, including Vega and the 5700 are affected, and won’t reset properly in a VM.

This is an addendum to the Increments page specifically for Mac OS GPU Selection So, What AMD GPUs Aren’t Safe?Īs far as we can tell from our (extensive) research, Hawaii cards (The R9 290, 290X, 390, and 390X) are the first cards that shipped with the reset bug.

Our VFIO Increments Page is generally OK to follow for macs, but as picky as OS X can be about supported cards, it’s good to err on the side of caution. This site will always be free of ads and sponsored content.

It’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t.Ĭonsider supporting us if you value independent tech news and research. Nvidia is essentially out of the question at this point, assuming you want to use a new release of their operating system, and new AMD cards don’t work well with UEFI Passthrough. One of the most common questions we get is: “what gpu should I use for a Mac OS VM,” and it’s frankly a hard one to answer.

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