With the release of mid 2017 imacs apple has officially used polaris ellesmere gpus in its lineup the wonderful news is 10 12 6 will include drivers for rx 470 rx 480 rx 570 and rx 580.
Sapphire pulse rx 580 mac drivers.
The radeon rx 580 8gb scored 65 0 66 9 69 5 73 3 and 74 2 respectively.
The radeon r9 380 4gb scored 43 5 43 2 40 3 45 3 and 41 respectively.
2010 mac pro tower with 3 33ghz 12 core xeon x5680 with 96gb of 1333mhz ddr3 ecc sdram running macos mojave 10 14 6.
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Third report from march 2nd sapphire pulse rx 580 8gb another successful radeon rx 580 report mac pro 5 1 native driver support in macos 10 12 6 and later just letting you know i was enthused to read about the stock sapphire pulse 8gb radeon 580s working natively on mac pro 5 1 machines so i decided to upgrade.
There are two part numbers for this particular rx 580 113 4e353bu o4e and 113 4e3531u o4v.
Download the latest drivers for your sapphire radeon consumer graphics card product and operating system.
This is due to it being used in the official external graphics dev kit.
Release notes radeon software crimson relive edition 17 7 2 highlights new features and improvements.
Radeon additional settings has been retired and its previously supported controls for switchable graphics color depth and pixel format have all been moved into radeon settings.
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Also note that most amd drivers are universal and backwards compatible however they are operating system specific.
Macos checks for either one of these part in order to show radeon rx 580 instead of amd r9 xxx in about this mac.
Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers.
Always make sure you choose the appropriate operating system for your computer although the latest drivers should be compatible with most gpus from previous generations.
This means starting with 10 12 6 and future macos version we don t need to perform these kext modifications anymore to use these cards in our mac pro towers.