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Heyas folks, just thought that I would share my success story! I had been using a rock solid i7 3770K Z77X-UD5H system for the past 8 years but decided to switch to Team Red after the boot loaders now patch AMD CPUs on-the-fly as they do Intel. My first ever Hackintosh back in the day was an AMD 64 AM2 system (I think) that I found in the trash. From there I moved on to an Athlon and eventually settled with a Phenom II before switching to Intel's (then new) Core i platform. I must say, things have come a very very long way since the early days of Chameleon and patched AMD Kernels.
System Specs:
System:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X w/ Deepcool Gammaxx l240
Gigabyte X570 Elite
Gigabyte RX Vega 64 OC Gaming
2x8GB Thermaltake 3600MHz CL18 DDR4 Thoughram
Storage:
500GB WB Blue PCI 3.0 NVME (Mac OS)
500GB ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G (Windows 10)
4x WD Black 1TB
1x WD Black 1.5TB
1x Segate 3GB (hot'n noisy... typical)
Peripherals:
Corsair K70 Lux RGB Cherry Brown
Corsair M65 Pro (Black)
Displays:
Samsung C27JG5x 27" WQHD 144Hz Curved (Main display)
Samsung Syncmaster 2443BW 24" WUXGA (Secondary display)
Case: Thermaltake Level 20 XT
EFI:
(EFI folder attached below)
Bootloader: Clover version 5118
ACPI:
SSDT-EC-USBX-AMD
SSDT-NVME
SSDT-PLUG
SSDT-XHC
Kexts:
AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement.kext
AppleALC.kext
Lilu.kext
SmallTree-Intel-211VA-PCIe-GBE.kext
SMCAMDProcessor.kext
VirtualSMC.kext
WhateverGreen.kext
My install method was simple. Since I already had a working Hackintosh, I simply used the UniBeast install method to make a USB installer and updated Clover (was 5117 at the time IIRC). Easy breezy! For more info on that see below.
Edit: Make sure to disable Above 4G Decoding in the BIOS if you are using my EFI folder.
99.9% ROCK SOLID performance! Everything works except sleep. Despite having a custom SSDT for USB (not necessary though as all ports work OOB), sleep only works if it is set to auto and no USB devices are plugged in/active. Not that much of an issue as scheduled startup and shutdown work fine and are what I use normally, regardless if sleep works or not. It still irks me that I am so close to having working sleep but something eludes me. Even turning off my RGB Unicorn vomit has no effect. Ah well, this same issue persisted on Intel for years and still plagues many users on newer Z390/490 systems so I have faith that someday the community will find a solution for us AMD users. #AMDSLEEPMATTERS
Something I would like to point out to both bring attention to and get the project rolling is piss-poor openCL and Metal performance. Many of you are aware that Apple nerfed GPU performance that results, on average regardless of GPU, 20 000 points difference using Geekbench 5's Compute bench, let alone other benchmarks AND real world application! For example, in Windows Geekbench 5 my Vega 64 gets 88 000 in compute. In Mac OS I get 66 000. You may say " Well, that's expected! " and to that I would say WRONG! I have started an AMD amd-radeon-performance-enhanced-ssdt thread here. Check it out and lets get this going!
Oh, one last thing! Clover! Yes, you read that correctly. I am using Clover as a boot loader, and it works as always: FANTASTIC! I am not sure which version started including AMD CPU on-the-fly patching of the Kernel, but hey, it works and best of all you don't have to tear out your hair and want to ram your first through the screen trying to manually configure both the config.plist and reconfiguration with each new OpenCore release. Yup, Clover works, Clover Configurator works. Hell, Clover even now has a patch that emulates NullIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext! Booya! All-in-all, you can get a fully working vanilla install of Mac OS using Clover. In terms of speed, Mac OS CPU and OpenGL benchmarks results mirror that of Windows down to margin of error.
Yup, that's right. I have the fan assembly for the Wraith cooler double sided Gorilla taped pointed towards the NVME drives and GPU. I needed more RGB to fill the dark void.
System Specs:
System:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X w/ Deepcool Gammaxx l240
Gigabyte X570 Elite
Gigabyte RX Vega 64 OC Gaming
2x8GB Thermaltake 3600MHz CL18 DDR4 Thoughram
Storage:
500GB WB Blue PCI 3.0 NVME (Mac OS)
500GB ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G (Windows 10)
4x WD Black 1TB
1x WD Black 1.5TB
1x Segate 3GB (hot'n noisy... typical)
Peripherals:
Corsair K70 Lux RGB Cherry Brown
Corsair M65 Pro (Black)
Displays:
Samsung C27JG5x 27" WQHD 144Hz Curved (Main display)
Samsung Syncmaster 2443BW 24" WUXGA (Secondary display)
Case: Thermaltake Level 20 XT
EFI:
(EFI folder attached below)
Bootloader: Clover version 5118
ACPI:
SSDT-EC-USBX-AMD
SSDT-NVME
SSDT-PLUG
SSDT-XHC
Kexts:
AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement.kext
AppleALC.kext
Lilu.kext
SmallTree-Intel-211VA-PCIe-GBE.kext
SMCAMDProcessor.kext
VirtualSMC.kext
WhateverGreen.kext
My install method was simple. Since I already had a working Hackintosh, I simply used the UniBeast install method to make a USB installer and updated Clover (was 5117 at the time IIRC). Easy breezy! For more info on that see below.
Edit: Make sure to disable Above 4G Decoding in the BIOS if you are using my EFI folder.
99.9% ROCK SOLID performance! Everything works except sleep. Despite having a custom SSDT for USB (not necessary though as all ports work OOB), sleep only works if it is set to auto and no USB devices are plugged in/active. Not that much of an issue as scheduled startup and shutdown work fine and are what I use normally, regardless if sleep works or not. It still irks me that I am so close to having working sleep but something eludes me. Even turning off my RGB Unicorn vomit has no effect. Ah well, this same issue persisted on Intel for years and still plagues many users on newer Z390/490 systems so I have faith that someday the community will find a solution for us AMD users. #AMDSLEEPMATTERS
Something I would like to point out to both bring attention to and get the project rolling is piss-poor openCL and Metal performance. Many of you are aware that Apple nerfed GPU performance that results, on average regardless of GPU, 20 000 points difference using Geekbench 5's Compute bench, let alone other benchmarks AND real world application! For example, in Windows Geekbench 5 my Vega 64 gets 88 000 in compute. In Mac OS I get 66 000. You may say " Well, that's expected! " and to that I would say WRONG! I have started an AMD amd-radeon-performance-enhanced-ssdt thread here. Check it out and lets get this going!
Oh, one last thing! Clover! Yes, you read that correctly. I am using Clover as a boot loader, and it works as always: FANTASTIC! I am not sure which version started including AMD CPU on-the-fly patching of the Kernel, but hey, it works and best of all you don't have to tear out your hair and want to ram your first through the screen trying to manually configure both the config.plist and reconfiguration with each new OpenCore release. Yup, Clover works, Clover Configurator works. Hell, Clover even now has a patch that emulates NullIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext! Booya! All-in-all, you can get a fully working vanilla install of Mac OS using Clover. In terms of speed, Mac OS CPU and OpenGL benchmarks results mirror that of Windows down to margin of error.
Yup, that's right. I have the fan assembly for the Wraith cooler double sided Gorilla taped pointed towards the NVME drives and GPU. I needed more RGB to fill the dark void.
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