In my last live stream I showed you I made this AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT working in 3960x
Threadripper Hackintosh on latest macOS Big Sur in just few minutes.
And I promised I will put this card into deeper testing, do some benchmarks and see how this
AMD 6800 XT performs in real life video editing in Hackintosh.
So... here you have it :)
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For last few years I was recommending the Radeon VII as the best GPU for macOS, for
real Macs and also Hackintosh builds.
Did it changed now with the arrival of new wave Big Navi GPUs?
Spoiler alert - yes :) Since last time I put this AMD RX 6800 XT
into my fastest Hackintosh I have here, to my 32-core 3970x Hackintosh so it's even more
appealing :) And also because I want in one of my next videos compare this 32-core Hackintosh
to my 16-core 2019 Mac Pro with two Vega Pro II cards, to see which one is better :) Of
course the Mac Pro is 6 times more expensive, but - will it also deliver 6 times better
performance?
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OK, so, this card is relatively lightweight, it's a bit lighter than my Radeon VII cards
which is good news, because it will not sack so much and don't rip off PCIe slot so easilly.
Another finding - this card has dual 8-pin power connector which I had connected on a
single power supply cable.
Wrong!
If you can, always be sure you connect each 8-pin from separate cable from PSU.
During my tests if I had it connected with 2 8-pins on a single cable it was shutting
down my computer despite I have very good 1200W Corsair PSU.
Once I connected two separate 8-pin cables, all was fine.
In currently latest macOS Big Sur 11.4 Hackintosh the fan start stop feature is working perfectly,
on idle or low load the fans are completely off, they will start to spin only if you will
do more intensive tasks.
During all my tests from time to time the fans went to higher speeds, it was noticable
with open case side panel, but absolutely not as loud as my 2019 Mac Pro fans.
I like this card, the only thing which bothers me is the fact it's is 2.5 slot wide.
I prefer cards 1 or 2 slots wide.
So now it's blocking one of my 4 PCIe slots.
Other than that, I'm really nicely surprised by this 6800 XT in my Hackintosh.
In a single word - it's a beast :)
So now let's have a look at some benchmarks and also real life experience with video editing. Are you ready?
Let's go....
Full Metal 2 framework Supported.
Yeah :) And here so you believe me I'm running this AMD RX 6800XT in my 32-core 3970x Hackintosh.
So let's run Metal test.
Oh my Lord, 178 791 score.
My Vega Pro II card with 32 Gigs of memory in my 2019 Mac Pro has 101000 with the same
version of macOS Big Sur.
That's crazy.
My Vega is $5600, I get this 6800XT for 2 Grand, which is stil extremely overpriced
these crazy days, but it's still almost 3 times cheaper and has almost double the performance.
What the hell is going on here.
BTW link to this score you can find in this video description, so you can compare it to
your own results easilly.
OK next benchmark I'd like to show you is the Blackmagic RAW Speed Test.
I shoot on Blackmagic 6K camera, so it's relevant for me.
Hmmm very nice result.
Again, comparison with my 2019 Mac Pro I will show in next video.
Maybe on my second Youtube channel :)
OK, now Luxmark, 55804 Luxball scene, 43462 Neumann scene and 10809 Lobby scene.
OK, now let's go to teh GFXBench test running Metal of course.
Aztec Ruins at 1440p 406 fps, oh my Lord, 1440p Mahnattan test insane 875 fps.
That's insane.
Incredible.
But I'm not a gamer, so let's move to Final Cut.
This Hackintosh with AMD RX 6800XT running latest macOS Big Sur 11.4 did this BruceX
benchmark in just 7 seconds.
Uaaaaa.
Help...
OK, calm down those are just benchmarks, it can be misleading.
Let's see how this 6800 XT will handle Candle Benchmark in latest Davinci Resolve 17.2.
BTW I prepared for you this benchmark for download if you would want to test it on your
build.
Link for download is again in this video description.
So as you can see in Resolve Preferences this card is recognized perfectly running Metal.
Let's load 66 blur nodes.
25, 28, 27 fps.
OK, now let's load 6 Temporary Noise Reduction nodes.
What?
35,36,34, what the hell, that's insane.
OK, but that's still not the absolute real life test.
So I decided to run it on one of my past projects, real video editing and render test.
Full 4K timeline with 6K Blackmagic RAW footage, some 4K ProRes and H265 files.
And this project is in 4K HDR!
Scrubbing in timeline is lightning fast.
Extremely responsive.
For best performance I export the final render to a separate 970 Pro nvme disk.
OK, so 3 minutes 32 seconds video was rendered in 2 minutes 20 seconds.
So faster than realtime :) Is it better than my 2019 Mac Pro?
Subscribe to my channel to see it :)
OK.
So overall this cards feels to me like a lightning from heaven.
If there would not be all cards so everpriced it would be absolutely steal deal for it's
performance.
But wait, despite the extreme prices these days, it is still amazing deal!
The best deal.
For macOS this is currently the best card you can get.
The 6900 XT is just a little bump in performance, but huge jump in price, so this AMD Radeon
RX 6800 XT is the card I will from now recommend to all people who want best performance for
their Hackintosh or real Mac.
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