Radeon R9 290 on MAC Mavericks..anyone with experience of this?
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I’m mining FTC on my Mac Pro with the default Radeon 5770 (which was redundant as I had installed an nVidia 4000 for Mac), I obtain about 194 KH/s. with Asteroid which by the way is brilliant! instant set-up and super easy to use.
I thought of connecting my R9 290 to the Mac Pro which has 2 PCI-E 16 still available…but the Mac isn’t seeing it.
Am I doing something silly?
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Mac just recently supported 7950 cards…
You will not be able to use 290 cards on a mac (osx) for a very long time:) -
R9 270 and 280/280x cards work just fine, out of the box. There is no support for the 290 at the moment, though it may not be very far off. Next Mac Pro will have AMD FirePros, and Apple is still playing with AMD driver improvements.
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R9 270 and 280/280x cards work just fine, out of the box. There is no support for the 290 at the moment, though it may not be very far off. Next Mac Pro will have AMD FirePros, and Apple is still playing with AMD driver improvements.
[/quote]Yeah didn’t think about that given that 280 series is basically 7970.
290X however… and Apple do have an tendency to skip one generation on their desktop versions.
Now that they have gone over to the new box shape with custom layout on the boards and AMD FirePro i wouldn’t hold my breath for 290X support.Only way to possible get this to work is to go on the mackintosh forums and look after an driver injection for 290X series, not sure if it exist, but worth a try.
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Wish I had known this before spending 9 days getting a R9 290 running. I was showing, Ben, a very inexperienced (roofer) what to do. His brain nearly exploded, installing AMD drivers, even, before we found cgminer didn’t work.
It was Windows 7 only (no Linux) and fix 2 major bugs in CG miner 2.7.2
CGMiner Incorrectly specified TC so crashed. Would not take pass parameter after first run, so had to set up in cgminer.conf manually.
- (web) Documented TCs are wrong for MSI R9 290.
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great. thanks for the feedback on this.
result is:
Radeon 270 and 280X work ou tof the box in Mac Mavericks
Radeon 290 DO NOT work on Mac no matter what.
got it…so now my plan would be:
purchase a 850W PSU
3 PCI-E 16x raisers
connect 3 x R9 280X to the spare PCI-E of my MacPro and power them via external PSU
any reason why this shouldn’t work?
I’ll purchase a 280X and test…I will update this post -
I will not guarantee that 280X will work.
They are about the same as an 7970, but macs truly are pretty particular when it comes to GPUs
Might be you either need to flash the GPU or inject the AMD drivers to get it to work. Given that APPLE uses custom bios on their GPUsTbh i would just make an separate rig for mining instead of involving an Mac Pro. I do love macs, but not for mining:)
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ok thanks. I understand.
Fact is: I want to get a 280x for the PC on Win 7, so if I fail to make it work on the Mac I’ll just use it on the pc.
I see on-line a 7950 for Mac with drivers and all…in case I may go for that one. a bit pricey…
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-316-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673
what do you think ?
I agree with you I wouldn’t touch the Mac Pro which I love to bits, but: I would save all the money for parts and especially all the time to build the rig, plus it would give me a nice boost for my video editing! also the asteroidapp is dead easy to set-up, it even works with MoblieMiner to monitor and control it remotely from Android Phone.
(most important of all:my girlfriend won’t notice what’s gonig on while a mining rig could possibly be thrown out of the window! 8) )
I’ll let you guys know if it works out! -
just reread your previouse post.
forget about putting 3x280x in the mac pro
anything above one card in an normal computer case will overheat unless you have a bigass fan blowing on the case and sidepanel away.given all the custom fans etc in the case i would not put cards in there to heat it all up.
you looking at close to a kilowatt of heat trapped in the case from those cards.Oh and she will notice as soon as the gpu fans spin up ::)
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ah yes I didn’t mention it but of course I’m buying PCI riser, which are long enough to have cards out of the box,need to find something to lay them on…without risers they wouldn’t even fit in the box they are so big
even more: I also have a nVidia 4000 for Mac. and a Radeon 5770 but I’ll easily get rid of that one…
yes the fans I know…a bit of an issue…I’ll play loud classical music over every meal! ahahah ;D -
[quote name=“ftcMagic” post=“56365” timestamp=“1391216482”]
R9 270 and 280/280x cards work just fine, out of the box. There is no support for the 290 at the moment, though it may not be very far off. Next Mac Pro will have AMD FirePros, and Apple is still playing with AMD driver improvements.
[/quote]Just to clarify, those cards will work on a Mac with Mavericks, but the drivers will still suck for mining. I custom built a hackintosh with 7970 in it, and it works great except for OpenCL/OpenGL functions. Apple’s drivers are not anywhere near using the card’s full strength, so I mainly have my hackintosh mining in linux on one SSD, while OSX is installed on another SSD.
