I switched the GPUs, booted High Sierra and the RX 570 just worked. But it consumes more power and runs hotter. The RX 570 (8 GB variant) seemed like the closets match to my GTX 1060 (6 GB variant) and was is quite cheap, you can get it under 200€. I am not a fan of AMD GPUs to be honest but I decided to buy a RX 570 to be able to run Mojave in expectation of Xcode 10.2. You not even have to install Lilu or Whatevergreen. You can buy a RX 560, RX 570, RX 580, Vega 56 or Vega 64 and it should work out of the box, no extra drivers needed. Mojave natively supports some GPUs from AMD. If you are for example an iOS developer, XCode 10.2, the next version of Xcode, will only run on Mojave and you will not be able to use it unless you upgrade. Unfortunately, NVIDIA currently cannot release a driver unless it is approved by Apple.Īpple basically blocks NVIDIA from releasing web drivers for Mojave, that is the reason the drivers are not out even now half, a year after Mojave release. Citing from the NVIDIA Developer forumsĭevelopers using Macs with NVIDIA graphics cards are reporting that after upgrading from 10.13 to 10.14 (Mojave) they are experiencing rendering regressions and slow performance. NVIDIA needs to release new drivers and they now cannot do it without cooperation from Apple. When a new major version of macOS comes out, like Mojave, you cannot use web drivers for the previous version. This is a bit annoying, you typically have to wait a few days after every macOS update for new drivers to become available and update then. Those web drivers are version specific, every time the macOS build number changes after some update you need new ones (or to use a script to patch the previous ones). Without the web drivers you get no hardware acceleration, no 4K as maximum resolution, just one display working … the whole setup is basically unusable. It worked in Sierra and High Sierra thanks to the so called web drivers GPU drivers provided my NVIDIA on their website. I decided I needed a more powerful GPU anyway to play games on the new display in Windows so I bought a GTX 1060.

When I later bought a 4K display I could not make the GTX 660 drive the display at in macOS, although it worked well in Windows. When I turned my computer into a Hackintosh about 2 years ago I was using an NVIDIA GTX 660 as my GPU and it worked without any additional drivers because of built-in support in Sierra.

Mojave compatible graphics cards