Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Drivers and Catalyst 12.11 Software for OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion

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Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Drivers and Catalyst 12.11 Software for OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion

Need graphics drivers and Catalyst 12.11 Software for OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion (to support Radeon HD 7970 Graphics cards)

Operating System

-64-bit, OS X 10.8.2

Graphics Cards (all twelve)

XFX Double D Radeon HD 7970 (FX797ATDFC)
XFX Double D Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition (FX797ATDBC)
XFX Double D Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (FX797GTDFC) **
Diamond Radeon HD 7970 (7970PE53G)
Diamond Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (7970PE53GHZ) **
Diamond Radeon HD 7970 Double Black Diamond Edition (7970PE53GDD)
ASUS Radeon HD 7970 (HD7970-DC2-3GD5)
ASUS Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (MATRIX-HD7970-P-3GD5)
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (100351VXSR)
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7970 (100351SR)
GIGABYTE Radeon HD 7970 (GV-R797OC-3GD)
MSI Radeon HD 7970 (R7970)

Please also add graphics and hardware acceleration for H.264/H.265, and OpenCL

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 17, 2012 7:14 AM

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nextech Author

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Nov 17, 2012 7:47 AM in response to nextech

Here: http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=454&threadid=162278&enterthread =y

Hopefully AMD can release the latest Catalyst 12.11 Software and Graphics Drivers for OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion to support the latest Radeon HD 7970 Graphics cards.

Here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150632

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The hatter

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Nov 17, 2012 10:25 AM in response to nextech

Why are you addressing? other end users. And this is the type of thing best addressed on other forums like netkas.org, MacRumors forum: Mac Pro, etc.

"Please add?"

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nextech Author

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Nov 17, 2012 12:17 PM in response to The hatter

You'll NEVER get what you're asking for, unless you ask.

AMD, pointed me towards Apple. I was told to just post it in the Apple Support forums. All you can do is keep asking, and hoping that Apple will listen to their users, and at least add driver support to OS X 10.8.2 for the Radeon HD 7970 series graphics cards.

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nextech Author

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Nov 17, 2012 12:19 PM in response to nextech

> netkas.org, MacRumors

Netkas and MacRumors do NOT write hardware drivers for OS X 10.8.2. If you want graphics card hardware drivers you'll need to ask Apple to write the drivers, and add support to Mac OS X.

Yes, Apple writes the graphics drivers and adds the support to OS X. Not Netkas or MacRumors.

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mattvs

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Oct 20, 2013 12:20 PM in response to nextech

Have you updated recently? According to some techies I've talked to, after OS X 10.8.3 or 4 was released, all the Radeons you've listed will now work in a Mac Pro, you just won't be able to boot in EFI mode or see the Apple logo on startup unless you flash the BIOS on the GPU.

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The hatter

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Oct 20, 2013 1:22 PM in response to mattvs

Love these year old threads.

Flashing is what some other sites specialize in, or even troubleshooting non-Apple cards.

There is an AMD Mac Edition 7950. Now. As well as EVGA GTX 680.

All of those were tested and reported on by Barefeats - back in March-May 2013.

Apple? not interested in PC cards other than they have quietly added more driver support in 10.8.3 and especially above. Not in 10.8.2.

Be interesting to see what Maverick support provides as far as GPUs.

And netkas and others are up on PC graphic cards, not Apple, even if they don't write drivers, they do often write how to flash a PC card and support. Apple and this discussion, no.

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