[KEXT] Tired of low Geekbench scores? Use RadeonBoost!

mitch_de · June 8, 2020

RX 460 : removed AGPM & non Polaris injects.

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You see in Luxmark Info, that my RX 460 has 16 Compute Units (like RX 560) not 14. By flashing edited ("unlock Shaders) ROM back on the card. I reduced the max GPU clock a bit down from 1212 MHz to 1208 MHz.

The 16 vs 14 CUs alone result in about 8-10 % compute boost - so your around 20000 Metal score is good for 14 CUs.

I only get around 17000 Metal score (16 CU) without radeonboost.

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DL:

RadeonBoost.kext.zip

Regi Yassin · June 8, 2020

when i boot the system and then run geekbench 5, i got the right score, openCL 44-46k,

but after using the system normally, like browsing or anything light (not high load) the score is back to low, openCL 28k-29k

this is only happened for me on catalina

and also with or without radeonboost.kext, the score is same

CMMChris · June 8, 2020

Likely one more GPU driver bug. There are tons of them across all AMD GPU families. Apple's QC is just garbage (or not existing at all).

Edited June 8, 2020 by CMMChris

khaos0227 · June 8, 2020

On 6/7/2020 at 5:04 PM, CMMChris said:

Not a RadeonBoost issue, you have some other problems with your system.

On Windows I am getting 52645 points on OpenCL

This is my EFI that I assembled using this guide: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Desktop-Guide/

What might be the problem then if it's not HW?

EFI.zip

On 6/7/2020 at 5:04 PM, CMMChris said:

Not a RadeonBoost issue, you have some other problems with your system.

On Windows I am getting 52645 points on OpenCL

This is my EFI that I assembled using this guide: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Desktop-Guide/

What might be the problem then if it's not HW?

mitch_de · June 8, 2020

If you have an AMD CPU, maybe this also has an negative effect on AMD gpu drivers - Chris may know more.

pure.wisdom · June 25, 2020

Hi @CMMChris. I compare your kext with ATY, Adder. I see it lacks DalEarlyTps1Pattern and PP_DisableDIDT. Can you explain why we don't use them? Thanks

silvergraphs · June 30, 2020

I installed this to see if it worked on my RX 570 and went from 25k to 35k in geekbench OpenCL, even so it does not reach the same performance as in windows (41k), what can I do?

cfmwan · July 3, 2020

AMDRadeon RX 5700 XT

https://item.jd.com/100003812797.html

hubbobubbo · July 4, 2020

I am about to order the parts for my first Hackintosh and was pretty much settled on the 5500 XT instead of the RX 580 when I came upon this thread.

I know you guys do not have all the answers but if there is any general recommendation about which card to choose based on all the knowledge you have accumulated it would be so helpful so I at least increase my chances of success.

The reason for choosing the 5500 is that its not that much more expensive than 580 and I will use an itx box so I expect it to be a bit cooler/quieter due to the newer architecture. I guess the 5600 could be an option if it would work better even if its a stretch financially.

I will use Win10 for some basic 1080p gaming and macOS for light video editing/ photoshop etc. Would the issues with the performance be a blocker for that on macOS.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations and advice.

Ericine · July 5, 2020

hi there
so just to understand it clearly
Radeon RX 5700 is not supported by your kext anymore on catalina 10.15.5?
thank you.

joy2000 · July 6, 2020

16 hours ago, Ericine said:

hi there
so just to understand it clearly
Radeon RX 5700 is not supported by your kext anymore on catalina 10.15.5?
thank you.

1.0 supports but 1.6 doesn't.

For my testing. this mod is not stable for rendering. ie if you use FCPX/Compressor for some huge project maybe get black screen or glitch. It also can't reduce the rendering time.

ITzTravelInTime · July 6, 2020

On 4/19/2020 at 8:15 PM, CMMChris said:

New version 1.2 added in first post. Vega10 support has been removed (Vega 56, Vega 64, Vega Frontier).

Reason:
People have observed fan control being broken when using this kext like it was the case prior to the release of macOS 10.14.5 Mojave. You remember? 10.14.5 was the macOS release that fixed the fan issues with Vega 56, 64 and Frontier cards. But you might also remember that exactly with this release the Geekbench scores have become lower as well.

Thanks to the developers of Whatevergreen we now know that Apple disabled the loading of the SMU Firmware to PC graphics cards with this release of macOS. macOS does now check for the device property "ATY,EFIVersion" before uploading the SMU firmware to the graphics card. Adding it back causes the SMU firmware to be loaded again and is the main reason for the increase in Geekbench scores. Anyhow, it also causes the Vega10 fan bug to come back.

It really looks like Apple never fixed the Vega10 fan control issues which apparently are caused by a bug inside the SMU firmware. So they simply did a dirty hack, disabling the firmware for all PC cards and thus essentially crippling them in some way.

Since I cannot fix this issue and a silent card is more important than Geekbench scores, I decided to drop Vega10 support for RadeonBoost.

If you are pissed about the way Apple does handle bug fixing these days, open bug reports about this issue.

can you just add some way to toggle the loading of the smu firmware? like a boot arg or something? i see some users which prefers performance over silence

inat3k · July 8, 2020

Hi everyone,

i'm trying RadeonBoost for my RX580 but i don't have any performance improvement.

With or without radeonboost i get ~30000 OpenCL and ~35000 Metal (GeekBench 5).

The strange thing is that if i try to do the test after sleep/wake i get ~36000 OpenCL and ~53000 Metal.

The same test on Windows 10 get ~48000 OpenCL so the result on macOS is still lower.

What can i try?

Wackymac · July 11, 2020

Can confirm this works great with no KP. However, i did not use ATY,Rom# property. (i did have to convert your base 64 to hex for PlistEdit Pro)

On 5/3/2020 at 9:01 PM, Tiem said:

Nice find my man. Works like a charm. Scores were ~48k and are now ~67k :thumbsup_anim:

Here's the complete entry for the lazy:


<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
			<dict>
				<key>@0,name</key>
				<string>ATY,Adder</string>
				<key>@1,name</key>
				<string>ATY,Adder</string>
				<key>@2,name</key>
				<string>ATY,Adder</string>
				<key>@3,name</key>
				<string>ATY,Adder</string>
				<key>ATY,Rom#</key>
				<string>113-D1820501-101</string>
				<key>Force_Load_FalconSMUFW</key>
				<data>
				AQ==
				</data>
				<key>PP_WorkLoadPolicyMask</key>
				<data>
				IA==
				</data>
				<key>device_type</key>
				<string>ATY,AdderParent</string>
				<key>name</key>
				<string>ATY,AdderParent</string>
			</dict>

ROM version will likely differ between all the cards (I have the reference XT) so make sure you add your correct one.

kulos · July 19, 2020

On 5/4/2020 at 12:44 AM, BRONNER said:

It won't panic if you use named framebuffer . Do not copy ATY,Rom# unless you need it.

Fantastic! Works for me in 10.15.6 on my Sapphire Pulse 5700 xt on iMac 19,1 def. w/ UHD 630 in headless mode. Injected via Clover 5119. ATY,ROM# String not used. GeekBench 5 Metal went from 40000ish to 70000ish and I think I lost 1 sec in BruceX. All 3 DP's and the 1 HDMI do work (multimonitor not tested). Thanks!

fenrrir · July 20, 2020

21 hours ago, kulos said:

Fantastic! Works for me in 10.15.6 on my Sapphire Pulse 5700 xt on iMac 19,1 def. w/ UHD 630 in headless mode. Injected via Clover 5119. ATY,ROM# String not used. GeekBench 5 Metal went from 40000ish to 70000ish and I think I lost 1 sec in BruceX. All 3 DP's and the 1 HDMI do work (multimonitor not tested). Thanks!

Hey @kulos, please, can you tell me witch version of RadeonBoost are using? And what did you change in config.plist? Do you use opencore ? I have a Sapphire Nitro+ 5700 xt with similar hackintosh specs.

kulos · July 20, 2020

4 hours ago, fenrrir said:

Hey @kulos, please, can you tell me witch version of RadeonBoost are using? And what did you change in config.plist? Do you use opencore ? I have a Sapphire Nitro+ 5700 xt with similar hackintosh specs.

Hi, I’m not using a kext but the properties as stated by Tiem on 4/5/2020 in my clover.plist (without the ATY,ROM# String )

dada777 · July 21, 2020

On 7/20/2020 at 5:16 PM, fenrrir said:

Hey @kulos, please, can you tell me witch version of RadeonBoost are using? And what did you change in config.plist? Do you use opencore ? I have a Sapphire Nitro+ 5700 xt with similar hackintosh specs.

For Sapphire Nitro+ 5700 xt

opencore 0.5.9 :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>@0,name</key>
    <string>ATY,Adder</string>
    <key>@1,name</key>
    <string>ATY,Adder</string>
    <key>@2,name</key>
    <string>ATY,Adder</string>
    <key>@3,name</key>
    <string>ATY,Adder</string>
    <key>AAPL,slot-name</key>
    <string>Internal@0,3,1/0,0/0,0/0,0</string>
    <key>AAPL00,DualLink</key>
    <data>
    AQAAAA==
    </data>
    <key>ATY,DeviceName</key>
    <string>5700XT</string>
    <key>ATY,Rom#</key>
    <string>113-D1990103-S09</string>
    <key>PP_PhmSoftPowerPlayTable</key>
    <data>
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    </data>
    <key>device_type</key>
    <string>ATY,AdderParent</string>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>ATY,AdderParent</string>
    <key>hda-gfx</key>
    <string>onboard-1</string>
    <key>model</key>
    <string>Radeon RX 5700 XT</string>
    <key>Force_Load_FalconSMUFW</key>
    <data>
    AQ==
    </data>
    <key>PP_WorkLoadPolicyMask</key>
    <data>
    IA==
    </data>
</dict>
</plist>

syn909 · August 4, 2020

On 4/17/2020 at 10:14 AM, CMMChris said:

Radeon VII, ~~RX 5500, RX 5500 XT, RX 5600, RX 5700, RX 5700 XT~~ (WHATEVERGREEN NOT NECESSARY)

@cmmchris Sorry this does not make sense. Are you saying no longer necessary if using Whatevergreen.kext ?

Edited August 4, 2020 by syn909

CMMChris · August 4, 2020

What exactly doesn't make sense? It's just as I wrote.

Edited August 4, 2020 by CMMChris

13months · August 10, 2020

it is can not download，pls check it

konjow · August 11, 2020

@dada777

Thank you all and @dada777 for all info here. Im trying to optimize RX5700 Nitro.

I have two questions:

Should this config still work in 0.6 OC which I use?

All this code should go Under device? In code above for reference card there is Device ID but not in this one. What mI missing here?

Update: Im getting "waiting for remote debugger connection" after this. Any suggestions. Wrong SYMBIS?
with 19.1 panic attack

konjow · August 14, 2020

I NEED HELP

First I had only part op the code above for a RX5700 (Nitro) and my Opencl jumped to 59000. OC6 Catalina.

Then I tried above Tables and Reference one which did not work so I plays with SMBIOS

And I cant boot back. Its a Black screen on the end of boot - as without pokera flag I think. (but it is there) I used NVram flash each time

I tryied everything all working before EFIs including Bios flashing and nothing works.

It boots OK with GTX980Ti but not with RX5700 even Catalina - just pure graphics as no support for 980TI

Is it possible I killed card? How can I find out or reverted?

Please advise as its new one...

I dont have widows to test it btw...

THANK YOU

attaching both configs which did it ...

Edited August 17, 2020 by konjow

Ericine · August 15, 2020

any news about new version supporting RADEON RX 5700?

thanks in advance,
Eric.

roederja · September 24, 2020

Is that thing that Apple claim they have fixed in 10.15.7 for the RX 5700 the SMU Firmware loading?

[KEXT] Tired of low Geekbench scores? Use RadeonBoost!

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