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A quick and dirty guide on making a vanilla AMD hackintosh.

Vanilla AMD Hackintosh

Why vanilla?

It's clean

The AMD distros are designed to be ran on various different hardware combinations, while a vanilla install is made for your specific hardware. This means that your install will only have what it needs and no extra useless junk.

Tailor made for your hardware

A vanilla install doesn't have any unneeded kexts or modifications which could cause issues.

More instructive

Making your own install teaches you a lot more about how hackintoshing works which in turn makes it easier for you to troubleshoot any potential issues.

The good, the bad and the ugly:

What works

• AMD Ryzen CPUs
• Native Audio
• macOS Mojave 10.14.1
• iCloud
• AMD GPUs
• Nvidia GPUs that don't need Nvidia Web Drivers

So much works, that it is easier to say what doesn't so here we go:

• AMD FX CPUs (I don't have one to use for testing)
• Any other version of Mojave (Kernel sources haven't been released for other versions, so no patched AMD kernels)
• Internal Graphics. Be it an AMD Ax CPU or one of the G Ryzen chips, the GPU will not work.
• Nvidia GPUs that need Nvidia Web Drivers (no Web Drivers yet)
• Lower GPU performance, more specifically:
  • About 10% lower on AMD GPUs
  • About 75% lower on Nvidia GPUs
    • I have been told that this is not the case. Performance varies a lot per model, but it is safe to assume it is a lot lower than on Windows.
• IOMMU
• iMessage, FaceTime
• Siri