MP 7,1 2019 MP Radeon Pro W5700X Update?

[dspdoc]

So I got my new MP last night and I started getting the following pop-up notification upon every boot. I had no idea so I called support and they said their engineers are aware of it. It doesn't hurt anything, but it sure is an eyesore on a brand new MP. Also, when you click restart nothing ever changes or updates. The message just keeps coming back. Anyone have clue what this is about or experiencing it also? They said it is specific to the W5700X.

 

[codehead1]

It happened on my initial run, I restarted and haven't seen it since. MP16/W5700X

 

[bcomer]

Reinstall 10.15.4 supplemental update and it will actually apply the change and get rid of the popup.
Of course do a backup before applying the update. Worked for me.

 

[dspdoc]

Reinstall 10.15.4 supplemental update and it will actually apply the change and get rid of the popup.
Of course do a backup before applying the update. Worked for me.

Tried that, did not work.
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It happened on my initial run, I restarted and haven't seen it since. MP16/W5700X

I get the message on every single restart.

 

[dspdoc]

Reinstall 10.15.4 supplemental update and it will actually apply the change and get rid of the popup.
Of course do a backup before applying the update. Worked for me.

CORRECTION: So after installing the supplemental update twice it now seems to have resolved the message. I have a question though. If I do a wipe and clean install on macOS again will I have to reinstall the supplemental update as well, or did it update some firmware with this card or something?

 

[bcomer]

The firmware update should be a one time thing unless a new version is released in the future.

 

[choreo]

The W5700X refers to the MPX Version... right? If so, are these "shipping" as an installed option yet?

 

[codehead1]

The W5700X refers to the MPX Version... right? If so, are these "shipping" as an installed option yet?

Currently showing delivery June 1-3. Ordering from the day it went live in the Apple Store, the delivery window was April 24-May 1, and I know some got them within that window. (In my case it took about a month because it got screwed up in their system, and I finally got it May 14 after a lot of phone wrestling with them because they refused to believe the order had gone south.)

 

[eflx]

Firmware updates are a 1 time shot. There was a bug in the 10.15.4 updater. You can safely re-install (which is a good option ... I ended up doing that myself) and the latest update and re-install process includes the firmware updates that used to be separate as well.

A clean install works best. Eliminated every re-boot issue, and I also had a crash during sleep previously before installing fresh. 10.15.5 should be out pretty soon as well which should fix all of that, plus updates the W5700X drivers (much better performing!) and a filesystem copy bug which was caught in 10.15.4

 

[dspdoc]

Firmware updates are a 1 time shot. There was a bug in the 10.15.4 updater. You can safely re-install (which is a good option ... I ended up doing that myself) and the latest update and re-install process includes the firmware updates that used to be separate as well.

A clean install works best. Eliminated every re-boot issue, and I also had a crash during sleep previously before installing fresh. 10.15.5 should be out pretty soon as well which should fix all of that, plus updates the W5700X drivers (much better performing!) and a filesystem copy bug which was caught in 10.15.4

Please forgive the noob GPU question, but is there any "horsepower" benefit to installing two W5700X MPX modules? Meaning, do they somehow combine their power (get seen and utilized as one), or is it totally pointless? I know that certain GPUs link together for a combined power boost. Just not sure how having two of these in my MP would benefit me outside of having the ability to use a ton of monitors, which I don't need to do. Thanks!

 

[jasonmvp]

Please forgive the noob GPU question, but is there any "horsepower" benefit to installing two W5700X MPX modules?

Video editing software such as Final Cut Pro and Davinci Resolve will use both GPUs for rendering tasks, which will speed things up. It's really a software thing; you'll have to take stock of the apps you intend to run and find out if they support a multi-GPU setup.

 

[LEOMODE]

Mine came with 10.15.5 and I never saw that message. Maybe it was updated.