Alongside the new kext, the drivers were also improved. It’s possible Apple is ramping up development for updated Macs which will use one of these AMD graphics cards. This new kext solely contains support for Polaris GPUs. When 10.12.1 Beta was released on September 21st, 2016, I discovered a new AMDRadeonX4100.kext file. Install AMD Radeon RX 480 GPU in tower Mac Pro with a 6-pin PCIe power cable. The PCI ID for both RX 470 and RX 480 is 67DF so adding 0圆7DF1002 to AMDRadeonX4000.kext enables full acceleration for these cards.

Thanks to early reports from Netkas, you can spoof the personality of a Polaris 10 GPU to make it work under macOS. In particular, AMDRadeonX4000.kext contains supporting PCI IDs for Polaris 11 GPUs ( 0圆7EF1002, 0圆7FF1002, 0圆7C01002). Since macOS 10.12 Developer Beta 2, there have been references and drivers for Polaris 10 (Ellesmere personality) and Polaris 11 (Baffin personality). Luckily for us Mac Pro tower owners, macOS 10.12 Sierra brought support for these new AMD graphics cards. The Polaris 10 GPUs include the RX 470, RX 480 and another high-end card that has yet to be announced. After years of falling behind, AMD aims to win back market share with the introduction of its Polaris GPU lineup. In a sea of new graphics cards the AMD Radeon RX 480 currently gives the best value for performance. I’ve updated this post with a revised how-to and a list of AMD Radeon graphics cards you can use for your Mac Pro tower. Therefore this how-to works the same way for RX 580 and RX 570.įebruary 2017 Update: There are changes in 10.12.4 and newer which make installing and maintaining a Radeon RX 480 in macOS a bit more challenging. I received an RX 580 test unit from AMD and can confirm it has the same PCI ID (67DF) as the RX 480. 😀Īpril 2017 Update: AMD released Radeon RX 500 series on April 18th, 2017. 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. The wonderful news is 10.12.6 will include drivers for RX 470, RX 480, RX 570, and RX 580.

June 2017 Update: With the release of mid-2017 iMacs, Apple has officially used Polaris Ellesmere GPUs in its lineup.

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