AMD Radeon RX 6900 and RX 6800 GPUs get support in macOS Big Sur beta

AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 graphics cards are now supported as of the latest macOS Big Sur beta (11.4).

In its version 11.4 release notes, Apple confirmed: “You can now use graphics cards based on the AMD Navi RDNA2 architecture.”

What does that mean for Mac owners exactly? If you have a Mac Pro, you’re now able to slot in one of these Big Navi GPUs and feel the benefit, as some owners have already done (reporting, for example, some pretty nippy performance levels with Octane X, a rendering suite).

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