Does anyone know if it is possible to get a Firepro W8100 working in a 2012 Mac Pro? It uses the Hawaii architecture, like the R9 290 and 290X, and I know those will work.
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MP 1,1-5,1 Is a Firepro W8100 in 2012 Mac Pro possible?
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AFAIK, from the Hawaii family of GPUs the one that is supported by Apple AMD drivers is the R9-290X with device ID 67B0, the Hawaii-XT. No support for any other of the Hawaii-GL based GPUs.
Maybe you can spoof the supported device ID via OC, but remember that this a GPU that the driver support ended with Monterey and works very poorly after that - Chrome and any other Electron based apps does not work anymore.
If you wanna read about, just open any MacPro6,1 + macOS after Monterey thread, the GPUs from the MacPro6,1 are also GCN and suffer the exact same issues.
Maybe you can spoof the supported device ID via OC, but remember that this a GPU that the driver support ended with Monterey and works very poorly after that - Chrome and any other Electron based apps does not work anymore.
If you wanna read about, just open any MacPro6,1 + macOS after Monterey thread, the GPUs from the MacPro6,1 are also GCN and suffer the exact same issues.