Few weeks ago I introduced in my video ultimate Hackintosh build for year 2019, real 14-core
iMac Pro killer and also updated video about it.
It was running macOS Mojave.
So question of the day - Is this Hackintosh build able to run upcoming macOS 10.15 Catalina?
Let’s find out.
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Lot of people ask me each day, if my 14-core iMac Pro Killer hackintosh build will be able
to run also the next upcoming macOS 10.15 Catalina, which should come as always this
year in fall, or if there are some problems running it.
The only way how to find answer to this question is to simply try it :) BTW all links, videos
and apps mentioned in this video you can find
now in this video description.
So I logged on to Apple Developers website and downloaded the macOS Developer Beta Access Utility.
It will allow you to download newest macOS 10.15 Catalina Beta installer directly using
Software Update panel in System Preferences.
Once the macOS Catalina installer is downloaded, it will automaticaly open - that’s not what
we want.
We want use this application only to create USB installer of it.
I’ve made a video already covering this process so follow it, just use updated Terminal
command for Catalina instead, you can find it now in this video description.
Then I just used my already prepared and tweaked EFI folder for my build, updated Clover Bootloader
to latest one, updated drivers, kernel extensions, some of them I compiled from source
to get really the latest versions.
Then I just booted from my installer and without a single problem I installed successfuly macOS
Catalina on my i9-9900k on Z390 Designare motherboard with Radeon VII GPU in just about
15 minutes.
Copied my EFI folder to my SSD, rebooted… and… macOS Catalina latest Beta version
running on my ultimate hackintosh :) i9 CPU, 64 gigs of RAM, AMD Radeon VII GPU.
GPU works great, memory works great, all USB ports are working as they should on advertised
speeds, Thunderbolt 3 Titan Ridge controller works great, both ethernet adaptors works
great.
Everything like on previous macOS Mojave.
So let’s run some benchmarks and see if also raw performance is where it should be.
Geekbench score practicaly same as on Mojave.
So let’s try Cinebench R20.
Here score on Catalina is slightly higher then on Mojave.
Let’s run Luxmark to benchmark the Radeon VII in OpenCL workload.
Again, same score as on Mojave.
BTW I tested macOS Catalina and redone all these benchmarks also on my second i9-9900k
build with Vega Frontier Edition and CPU benchmarks are also the same.
Overall macOS Catalina feels little bit snappier in UI, some things are still no polished,
like here in system report, but don’t forget this is Beta version, for final version we
would need wait few more months.
You don’t need to worry about future, my build is ready for Catalina, it is running
great already now, simply ultimate macOS Catalina Hackintosh.
If you want to test it yourself, or be simply already now prepared for future upgrade, in
this video description you can find now link to my latest EFI configuration for this build.
BTW yes,…
I did it…
Tramtadada :) I bought the newest Navi card, the AMD 5700 XT for testing, so stay tuned :)
From my inital tests, 5700 XT is really nice surprise.
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see you next time my Hackintosh friends.