For ATI GPUs, you won't be able to do a download. If you updated your Mac via software updates, it will only include the files/drivers you. Bah i'm a complete noob i shoulda caught that 1x, would have made it obvious.

Share this story • • • A MacBook Pro-specific update to Mac OS X 10.6.7 for several 5000 and 6000 series AMD Radeon GPUs. Apple doesn't typically include support for GPUs that aren't in shipping products, so the inclusion has some important implications for Mac Pro users, future Sandy Bridge iMacs, and even for the 'hackintosh' scene. According to hackintosh site tonymacx86, contains native support for a range of Radeon HD 5xxx and HD 6xxx cards.

The support brings full Quartz Extreme and CoreImage acceleration on these GPUs. Tonymacx86 notes that for those building hackintosh systems—PCs built to run Mac OS X—using one of these cards won't require hacks or special kernel extensions such as.

GPU Device ID ATI Radeon HD 5630 0x68D8 ATI Radeon HD 5630 0x68D9 ATI Radeon HD 5670 0x68D8 ATI Radeon HD 5730 0x68D8 ATI Radeon HD 5770 0x68B8 ATI Radeon HD 5850 0x6899 ATI Radeon HD 5870 0x6898 AMD Radeon HD 6850 0x6739 AMD Radeon HD 6870 0x6738 AMD Radeon HD 6970 0x6718 The full list of supported Radeon GPUs Beyond making it easier to build a hackintosh, the new video card support has other ramifications. The Radeon HD 6xxx series cards in the list could very well be used in the next expected iMac revision with Sandy Bridge processors, rumored to arrive as soon as April.

The support may also mean that Mac Pro users won't have to continue to buy special and often expensive 'Mac edition' Radeon GPUs; instead, such users could buy standard cards available for Windows PCs. Developers experimenting with Lion have already determined some Radeon and series cards are supported without hacks as well. No new NVIDIA GPUs are covered by this native support. Mac Pros, iMacs, and now MacBook Pros all use AMD Radeon GPUs. The only NVIDIA GPUs still shipping from Apple are the ones integrated in the 320M controllers used in current MacBooks, MacBook Airs, and Mac minis. These platforms are likely to rely on integrated Intel GPUs once some time later this year.

I thought the cards also had to have special firmware to deal with the fact that Apple uses EFI EFI PCs have been in the wild for at least a year, and I have used two and three year old cards in them without issue, so that's not a barrier. Were they running in BIOS-compatibility mode or native UEFI? Eclipse software for mac os x 10.9.5. If it's native UEFI (and without support for older Option ROMs) then I could see you having trouble. Komplete kontrol s88 driver. The silly thing is how the UEFI spec indicates how to provide both UEFI and BIOS Option ROMs in the same ROM, but they split them up and charge a premium on the Mac-targeted devices.

Expected this for a LONG time. ATI/AMD and nVidia have been using 'universal' drivers on PC for a long time. It was only a matter of waiting until a Mac OS X universal driver happened. The cards in a series used to be quite different, and have lots of little optional features, but now, they're basically just differences in massive parrallelization.

Well, the big difference is that ATI and NVidia update their universal drivers to add support for new devices. That doesn't happen on OS X. It'll be welcome to get updates in the future. I'd view this more as Apple recognizing that the cards they provide in the Mac Pro aren't adequate for high-end users and people may want other options. It's cheaper to just support retail cards than what they've done in the past.