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A VirtualSMC plug-in that provides temperature readings for AMD GPUs.

Supports AMD dGPUs starting with the Radeon HD 7000 series up to the RX 6000 series and all Vega (GCN 5/Raven ASIC) iGPUs.

Requires macOS 10.14 or newer, Lilu and VirtualSMC.

The SMCRadeonSensors project is licensed under the Thou Shalt Not Profit License version 1.5. See LICENSE.

AMD GPU temperature and macOS

Apple stopped reporting the temperature since the Radeon VII. Vega 10 and older can still report the temperature using external tools.

Credits

  • Linux for the temperature logic in the amdgpu driver
  • Acidanthera for Lilu and VirtualSMC
  • AMD for their GPUs.
  • Aluveitie for the previous work.
  • FakeSMC3 for the original code, adapted by Aluveitie for VirtualSMC, now rewritten by us.