Welp 6600xt

[marinekev88]

Being a noob and seeing "Big Navi" works with BigSur I found a 6600xt in my budget and scooped it up... Installed BigSur and come to realise... 7mb Display shown for graphics... So after some digging that's when I discovered 6600 and 6700 are not supported on Mac [YET].... What options do those of us that are stuck with this kind of setup have? I could possibly sell and then try to find a 6800xt that I don't have to sell my house for but that's a stretch. Let me know if anyone has some underground intel on support for the 66's and 67's

 

[Aluveitie]

If Apple wanted to support them they would already, since Navi 22/23 are very similar to Navi 21. Since there is still no support we can assume Apple won't be using them and very likely will not support them.

 

[marinekev88]

Well I hunted around and I don't need a beast GPU as I don't do Video or graphics, I do software engineering so mostly CPU intensive stuff... I found a "Decently" priced wx5100 which has the required number of Display Ports I need. I think it should be a easy config.plist edit by removing the Navi boot arg, maybe @Shaneee or @AudioGod can confirm

 

[Aluveitie]

To a big surprise, Monterey 12.1 Beta contains support for the 6600 XT.

 

[marinekev88]

To a big surprise, Monterey 12.1 Beta contains support for the 6600 XT.

Wait seriously?? !!!

Updating to Monterey 12.0.1 then Ill see if I can go the 12.1

 

[Aluveitie]

@marinekev88 Yep, they announced it in the beta release notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-12_1-release-notes
But just the 6600 XT, no support for the 6700 XT.

 

[marinekev88]

@marinekev88 Yep, they announced it in the beta release notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-12_1-release-notes
But just the 6600 XT, no support for the 6700 XT.

Yup I just updated to 12.1-beta and it for sure works!! all 3 of my screens are recognized and no more 10mb lag