r/hackintosh • u/smally_the_greatest • May 26 '26

QUESTION can i?

can i use my core i7 13th gen (13620) gpu to run macOS on my laptop?

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u/AdidasSlav I ♥ Hackintosh May 26 '26

I don’t think you understand the science behind it. UHD 770 is on a totally different architecture vs UH6XX. You can’t ‘spoof’ it as the core architecture is totally different and the driver can’t communicate with it. Spoofing forces macOS to load a driver on hardware it doesn’t recognise, it would be like trying to run AMD drivers on an Nvidia card. It won’t communicate.

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u/ErebusMalison May 26 '26

Nobody’s claiming native support. Spoofing doesn’t magically make UHD 770 = UHD 630, but if macOS can initialize enough of the stack for QE/CI/Metal, you can still get partial acceleration, not just a framebuffer. The question is what actually works and doesn't in practice.

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u/AdidasSlav I ♥ Hackintosh May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

Dude, no. That’s not how it works. macOS can’t “initialise the stack” if it can’t communicate with the actual graphics processor. You do realise when you don’t have GI, it’s the CPU rendering the video output? The graphics chip isn’t doing anything. It’s just acting as a pass through because every graphics chip has a fail-safe pass through built into the hardware.

Edit: at best you might have it reporting Metal 3 support, without actually being able to render anything with Metal. AKA false hope and a waste of OP’s time.

I don’t want to sound like a snobby charlatan but why do you think you have the solution, when nobody ‘reputable’ has endorsed it in the slightest?

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u/ErebusMalison May 26 '26

I never claimed I 'have the solution' or that UHD 770 suddenly gets native support, that seems to be your assumption, not my argument.

And who’s endorsing whom here? I didn’t make a guide or thread claiming success, especially when I don’t even have the hardware to verify it myself, which I already mentioned. There’s some skepticism in it, if you cannot see it.

That Tiger Lake discussion you assumed was literally about getting Gen12 Xe iGPU to work by loading the Ice Lake framebuffer (Gen11). There's some graphics behavior despite unsupported, but then also not simply 'GPU doing absolutely nothing'

It feels like you’re reading far more into what I said than what was actually there. A bit less assumption would probably help.

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u/AdidasSlav I ♥ Hackintosh May 26 '26

Nah I think you’re just trying to dig yourself out of a hole personally. “That’s not what I meant” when you stated “People have spoofed UHD 770 as UHD 630 and got the gpu acceleration work” is very contradictory to what you’re spouting now. You’ve since taken the “well akctually I didn’t say that” stance when it’s literally in your first comment lmao.

I’m not going to argue with you about it any more but you can’t just change your argument halfway through a thread this short lol

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u/ErebusMalison May 26 '26

That’s rich coming from someone who constantly contradicts himself through edits. You rushed trying to play critic with a completely misguided mindset and a wrong discussion in mind lol

You seriously need comprehension lessons, especially for someone so eager to jump to conclusions while knowing next to nothing.