MP 1,1-5,1 Metal Graphics on RX 580?

[danallen]

The purpose of this post is to verify RX 580 supports metal and I am not retarded for thinking something is not making sense.

Open Core Legacy Patcher website says to run open core, a metal graphics card will be needed. They continued:

GPUs that support Metal are as follows:

• Intel HD 4000 series (Ivy Bridge/3rd gen) and newer
• AMD HD 7000 series and newer (GCN 1)
• NVIDIA GTX 600 and 700 series (Kepler)

Meanwhile, sometime in the last week, I was stopped abruptly at 2:22 am in a dangerous part of town, and told in absolutely clear terms:

RX 580 supports metal

My exhaustive search of the World Wide Web has turned up NO CREDIBLE REFERENCE to a valid relationship between RX580 graphics card and any of:

Intel HD 4000 series (Ivy Bridge/3rd gen) and newer
AMD HD 7000 series and newer (GCN 1)
NVIDIA GTX 600 and 700 series (Kepler)


Something is retarded here, is it me?

 

[Bigwaff]

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[StuAff]

Yes, RX580s are Metal-compatible.

 

[joevt]

I suppose one is supposed to be able to tell if an AMD GPU is older or newer than an AMD HD 7000.
Open Core Dortania GPU Buyers Guide has a list of AMD GPUs from newest to oldest. A lot of this is applicable to OCLP.
https://dortania.github.io/GPU-Buyers-Guide/modern-gpus/amd-gpu.html

 

[MarkC426]

Yes it does.
But I cannot vouch for unsupported versions of macOS

And from ‘the horses mouth’

Graphics card compatibility for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor – Apple Support (UK)

Find out which built-in and after-market graphics cards work with Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor on Mac.

support.apple.com

 

[goMac]

• AMD HD 7000 series and newer (GCN 1)

The AMD HD 7000 series was released in 2012.
The Radeon 580 was released in 2017.

Ergo the relationship between the two is the 580 is a newer graphics card than the 7000 series, and thus supports Metal.