ckrueger99

6 hours ago, fabiosun said:

Pretty well (almost perfectly) till 2020 CC release with some patching to do

Adobe Photoshop 2021 has many problems, new features like neural philters do not work

not production ready for amd cpu

Do you mean patches are currently available for 2020 CC? Or that we are waiting for someone to do them? Where can I find them, if they are available? Thank you.

6 hours ago, fabiosun said:

added on OP 

thank you

 

@meina222

Solution proposed in your link was used also by me in the past to install windows on my MSI

I had no idea of this  problem because when I have changed my rig from intel to AMD windows system booted fine by itself without any special modify by me (only to latest step I have installed AMD chipset drivers

I think is a more "global" problem then if AMD (TRX40) users have to instal from scratch with not default bios condition)

 

What is the link to the OP?

18 hours ago, Arrakis said:

Hello, Gigabyte has released its new firmware for the TRX40: AMD AGESA 1.0.0.5 Add Re-size bar option for AMD Smart Access Memory support. 😀

Will this revision on Designare run the Titan Ridge card without flashing now?

2 hours ago, Jaidy said:

This motherboard from Asus looks damn sweet! Hopefully Zen 3 TR Pros will be available soon, and would be hackintoshable!!

I'm looking to the ITX version of this board from ASRock.

Spotted on r/hackintosh

On 11/11/2020 at 2:54 PM, Driftwood said:

 

All those work great in Bare Metal or Proxmox. And I use Omnisphere. Firewire/Fireface800

 

Are the new versions  Final Cut Pro 10.5, Logic Pro 10.6 and Compressor 4.5 working normally on AMD?

1 hour ago, Allubz said:

Checking in to see how y'all doing with TRX40 greatness, glad to see it's still thriving!

 

Ooooh those new AMD cards are juicy. Can't beat a 6800XT for it's price point (and availability haha). Wasn't the code for Big Navi 21 and some siblings already spotted in Big Sur earlies end of June? Would be neat to get them up and running quickly..!

 

(I see the last post got purged or something, I got 1 post :D)

Me thinks there will be better availability of used Radeon VIIs in the months to come.

21 hours ago, meina222 said:

So essentially like a 3070 more or less - but MacOS compatible and hopefully actually available  to buy. Not too bad, not terrific considering the competition.

Closer to a 3080 than a 3070. Only question for me is whether supported right away in Big Sur.

Since it seems likely that MacOS 16.0 or 16.1 will support Big Navi, I thought it might be useful to understand how the AMD (and nVidia, for comparison) GPU product stack will likely shake out in the coming months, according to an excellent video from "Moore's Law is Done"

(Quadra RTX A5000)

Navi 21         (Prosumer)     32GB GDDR6, 80 CU 256 bit memory bus, $2-3000, Q1

(RTX 3090 $1499)

Navi 21         RX 6900 XT    16GB GDDR6, 80 CU 256 bit memory bus, $699 Nov'20
(Also, possible liquid version.)

(RTX 3080TI 20gb?)

Navi 21            RX 6800 XT    16GB GDDR6, 72 CU 256 bit, $599 Dec'20
Navi 21            RX 6800        8GB GDDR6, 60 CU 256 bit, $450

(RTX 3080 $699)

Navi 22         RX 6700 XT    12GB GDDR6, 40 CU 192 bit mem bus $400 Q1

(3070TI 16gb)

Navi 22        RX 6700        10GB GDDR6, 36 CU 192 bit $300-350

(RTX 3070 $499)

Navi 23        RX 6500 XT    8 GB GDDR6, 32 CU 128 bit $200-250 Q2 or Q3

(RTX 3060TI mid Oct)

5 hours ago, meina222 said:

@ckrueger99 - you list Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2 TB in your spec. Where did you get that?

It's my vapor build. coming soon, I hope.

Here's what I've heard about the Big Navi and other AMDs
(RTX 3090 $1499)
Navi 21 (Big)     RX 6900 XT    16GB 80 CU    $999
(RTX 3080TI 20gb)
Navi 21            RX 6800 XT    16GB 72 CU    $799
Navi 21            RX 6800        12GB 72 CU    $699
(RTX 3080 $699)
Navi 22        RX 6700 XT    16GB ?? CU
(3070TI 16gb)
Navi 22        RX 6700        8 GB ?? CU
(RTX 3070 $499)
Navi 23        RX 6500 XT

6 minutes ago, meina222 said:

The Samsung 980 pro is listed on Amazon with very competitive price with 2-4 weeks delivery estimate.

 

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-980-PRO-SSD-500GB/dp/B08GL575DB/

 

Wait for Sabrent...

On 8/28/2020 at 9:41 PM, Driftwood said:

TRX40 Bare metal Mac Pro7,1 proving very good....

 

Adobe Premiere Pro Beta - Working without Patch

Adobe Audition Beta - Working without patch

Adobe Effects Beta Working without patch

Adobe Photoshop (no beta to try) requires patch

Adobe Illustrator Beta - Doesnt work crashes

Adobe Media Encoder beta - Works

Final Cut Pro X Works 100%

Logic Pro 10.5.1 Working 100%

Avid Sibelius Ultimate - works 100%

Native Instruments Kontakt 5 and 6 - working with all sample libraries!

App Store Working 100%

Capture One (Photoshop rival) Works

Affinity Photo (photoshop rival) works

Camtasia - 2019 Not Working crashes (alternative Screenflow from Telestream or OBS)

OBS Works

Blackmagic Davinci Resolve ver 16.2.6 and 16.3 beta 2 (Crashes - therefore requires dylib patch then works) See iGPU link at beginning of thread.

MS Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc... 2020 -Works

Handbrake Video Encoder - Works

All web browsers work

Quicktime, Movist and VLC all work

Discord works for me (havent tried the audio screen sharing though)

Assimilate Scratch Grading Software - Works

Autopano Video 2.5 - works

Apple Mail - Works

Lattice LUT maker - works

Blackmagic Design Desktop video - works

Loopback - works

RME Fireface 800 with Firewire - works with NO audio dropouts or clipping

Tenntacle Systems timecode software - works

Steam - Gaming Interface - works

Counter Strike GO - Fails! Begins to load then beachballs and dies 

iMessage works

Cinebench 15 - doesnt work

Cinebench 20 - works and will give you a top score!

 

All in all for the media video or audio editor, Bare Metal is fine. If you're wanting to run games, Proxmox is the way to go.

Audio is much more solid on bare metal without clicks or pops unlike Proxmox which is temperamental and has latency issues as projects grow.

All the main video NLEs seem to work fine apart from Davinci which needs dylib patch

Photoshop is easily rivalled by Capture One for Pros or even Affinity Photo for lesser tasks, but I expect a new beta to appear soon that will work like the other betas do - Illustrator the same.

Microsoft Office working well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It appears that Waves audio plugin now works with Ryzen (previous did not), so perhaps with TR as well...

4 hours ago, fabiosun said:

with a trx40 to stay "in the cold" is impossible 🙂

too hot for this 

 

LN2, baby!

On 9/8/2020 at 2:38 PM, Driftwood said:

It's Apple who keep dropping the hardware support. The last great bastion is encoding HEVC PQ Rec2020 420 10-bit for HDR TV/Netflix style delivery. 

I haven't seen any NLE that can beat x265 CPU encoding. And that's the way I do it and using Handbrake GUI. Threadripper with 32 cores64 threads beats them all at software CPU encodes.  Ridiculously fast!

 

At 8-bit HEVC or h264 Media Encoder and fcpx etc... work well. It's 10-bit and now 12-bit HEVC that is the problem as it is so mathematically challenging.

Davinci resolve gives me around 8fps in 10 bit. They're all slow outside x265.

 

True 10-bit HEVC hardware support will need to be sorted out in Mac. And Apple are directly responsible for stopping AMD and Nvidia in their tracks - certainly for 'prosumer' level cards.

We need encode, not just decode!

We wait with baited breath to see support returned.

I'm just worried that Apple's hardware "solution" is going to require After Burner card or at least T2, either way leaving us out in the cold.

On 9/6/2020 at 2:49 PM, Driftwood said:

HEVC Encode Test on AMD Threadripper. 
 

Adobe Media Encoder Metal Works on AMD Hackintosh - Apple's Compressor doesn't seem to be able to use Metal with AMD Hackintosh. 
 

In 5 minutes, Adobe ME Beta had finished transcoding a 10 minute long 12-bit 4444 UHD video file to a HEVC 420 10-bit mp4, in the same time Apple Compressor had barely started - clearly its not making use of Metal and is Software/CPU only. 
 

Handbrake is quicker than Compressor using CPU software encoding doing same file 20% quicker than Compressor. 
 

Compressor would have taken over an hour to complete so I stopped it!

 

 

UPDATE: After much reading it appears the following:-

 

HEVC is hardware-accelerated only in single-pass, 8-bit mode. This is reasonably fast, but not as fast as compressing media into H.264.

10-bit HEVC, which is required for HDR media, is compressed in software – and, that takes forever!

If you are going to do any form of HEVC encoding, use ffmpeg or Handbrake GUI because they implemented tried and test, fast and
efficient encoders developed over many years, AND they fully implement the use of the hardware where it can.

 

 

@DriftwoodConsidering a professional media editor, whose primary work flow is in FCPX and, to a lessor extent, Adobe After Effects but not Premier, would the lack of HEVC hardware acceleration kill the decision to go with a TR hackintosh? Or would the same condition apply to an Intel Xeon 3175X machine? (Nearly as fast but much more expensive and using more power, but maybe without the HEVC compression problems?) Or does Apple Compressor depend on the T2, so we'd have the same problem with any brand of CPU , even a real Mac that doesn't have a T2? 

9 hours ago, fabiosun said:

yep but VRM and others quality hardware on it could be the difference

however not for our task

 

When I have set my system in Italy was available only MSI trx40 Pro 10 g with next delivery day option..It was on 4 December 2019....

My first choice was on Gigabyte designare ex (not available in that period)

Happy for my choice 🙂

 

@Driftwood: I like the ASRock for its cost and smaller form factor. And the fact is that your use case is probably most similar to mine. Your work on software compatibility is useful and confirms that your mobo would meet my needs.
On the other hand, as @fabiosun points out, for a few hundred more and compromise on size, the Asus yields highest possible performance. But the performance of the MSI Creator and the Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme would also be pretty similar, I believe.
So, does anyone have a view on whether getting the various elements of OC, etc to work would be any more difficult on the Asus than on your boards? @valmeida, I am particularly eager to hear from you... Thanks to all for the hard work you've done on this thread.

I'm specking out a  TR-39070X build on the Zenith II Extreme Alpha, as described in my signature below. Will be used mainly for video editing/rendering, using FCPX and After Effects. I notice that, out of 14 commenters on this thread, only one, Asus fanboy @valmeida, uses this motherboard. Aside from the ASMedia SATA controller, which I probably won't be using, are there reasons related to Hackintoshing that I should be dissuaded from using this board?

On 7/29/2020 at 1:44 PM, fabiosun said:

guide to flashing programming from CaseySJ

 

This is the more up-to-date link, which uses 3.3V natively.

Gentlemen, Is this video the correct technique for flashing the TR card? Thanks.