What’s the cheapest natively supported GPU for macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina?
I showed you in my videos already how great can work in macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina
Hackintosh GPUs like AMD Radeon VII, Radeon 5700 XT, Vega Frontier Edition, RX 580, RX
480, RX 560.
But what if you want just some cheapest, but natively supported GPU for macOS?
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Radeon VII is my recommended and also the most powerful GPU for macOS Mojave or macOS
Catalina Hackintosh builds or real Macs, I made whole video about this card.
In fact it’s the same GPU as in upcoming new Apple Mac Pro 2019 model, just with few
% less cores and less memory, but the same architecture.
But there is still lot of people, like for example audio producers, who don’t need
super powerful GPU, but still want to enjoy all advantages of running macOS.
BTW audio producers, don’t forget more and more audio plugins are using GPU power to
speedup the workflow, so I would not want to save just few bucks here.
So what’s the cheapest natively supported GPU for macOS Mojave and Catalina currently
on the market?
This is my 14-core iMac Pro Killer hackintosh running AMD Radeon 5700 XT and macOS Catalina
10.15.1 which I presented in one of my videos already.
I will shut it down and swap this massive GPU for significantly tinier card - this little
baby and just boot straight again, without any modifications to EFI configuration of
this Hackintosh Build.
Sounds impossible?
So let’s see.
Bang! Booted right!
Despite technically wrong SMBIOS it’s running perfectly.
Of course this card is not any beast.
The Kepler architecture this card is based on was introduced in 2012, so it’s already
7 years old.
But for the purpose I mentioned earlier it’s perfectly fine.
And as you can see it does not have problem to handle even 4K videos on it.
So perfect GPU for your Hackintosh or Mac when you don’t need any super powerful and
also expensive GPU.
It works out of the box, you don’t need to do any fancy tricks to make it working!
And again as always links where to buy this exact natively supported GPU for macOS Mojave
and Catalina is in this video description.
It’s the ASUS GT710-1-SL model.
BTW why I chose exactly this exact one and not any other one?
There are more reasons, first - it’s passively cooled GPU, so it does not make any noise
- great for audio production.
Second - it’s just PCIe x8 = so it will not eat much PCIe lanes.
If you will put it into the last PCIe slot connected through chipset, you can use the
first x16 slot to connect your high speed audio device at full speed!
And third - this card is perfect for AMD based virtualization servers, where I also use it.
You will see it in action in one of my next videos.
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