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AMD Cayman 6950 and 6970 support for Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion (Hackintosh)

Cayman 6970 and 6950 on Hackintosh 10.8 mountain lion

The Cayman GPU works fine with the kexts from OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion, as reported by netkas. This means, the AMD Radeon 6970 and AMD Radeon 6950 work with Hackintosh - making the 6970 the fastest card currently supported by Hackintosh systems. Netkas further posted a patched x3000.kext that will solve the existing problems. Can't wait to try this out myself. Will post updates here.

[Update 2012-3-11] netkas writes about Geforce gtx580 support out of the box. The netkas forum thread 6950 working NATIVELY in 10.8 !!! is currently 18 pages long and there are people getting it to run, some people are still having issues. The 6950 and 6970 running natively with the Mac Pro, as reported in the macrumors forums.

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This post was written by on February 17, 2012 and last edited on March 11, 2012
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  1. earl
    March 11th, 2012 - 18:44

    thanks for the post! i reblogged your article in german and i also ordered a 6950 card and will try out the suggested kext patch. all the best and keep us updated on progress!

  2. nanofunk
    March 11th, 2012 - 18:49

    earl, please tell us if the patched kext worked for you with 10.7 lion or 10.8 mountain lion! theoretically, the kext should also be usable with 10.6 snow leopard!

  3. earl
    March 11th, 2012 - 19:29

    I ordered the Sapphire Radeon HD6850 and also blogged about it in german. I did not have time to test in 10.6 and 10.7 – but the card works great with the developer preview 10.8 mountain lion, which can be downloaded for free if you are a registered apple developer.


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