Nvidia Drivers For Mac

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Nvidia Drivers For Mac

Well the same here (Apple wants to f#€k us CUDA users at macs): Another announcement About Mojave Drivers: Developers using Macs with NVIDIA graphics cards are reporting that after upgrading from 10.13 to 10.14 (Mojave) they are experiencing rendering regressions and slow performance. Apple fully controls drivers for Mac OS. Unfortunately, NVIDIA currently cannot release a driver unless it is approved by Apple.

Our hardware works on OS 10.13 which supports up to (and including) Pascal. Apple has published a help topic that includes a of supported hardware for OS 10.14 Mojave.

They suggest directing additional inquiries. Sincerely, The Team at Nvidia.

Click to expand. Just don’t know why you still have these cheese grater computers with Nvidia cards in them when these GPUs can’t output 10 bit color.

If you want your agency to be competitive you’re using the least efffective solution here if your work is color specific. And if you ever want to get into something like 8K video and compositing you have CPU, memory bandwidth and PCIE bottlenecks in those system that you can’t magically make go away with third party add ons. The motherboard is out of date.

You are better off investing in MBP with Thunderbolt GPU and storage, or wait for the new Mac Pro. Don’t waste any more money on that cheese grater junk.

Use it with High Sierra until you are ready to invest. Just don’t know why you still have these cheese grater computers with Nvidia cards in them when these GPUs can’t output 10 bit color. If you want your agency to be competitive you’re using the least efffective solution here if your work is color specific.

And if you ever want to get into something like 8K video and compositing you have CPU, memory bandwidth and PCIE bottlenecks in those system that you can’t magically make go away with third party add ons. The motherboard is out of date. You are better off investing in MBP with Thunderbolt GPU and storage, or wait for the new Mac Pro.

Don’t waste any more money on that cheese grater junk. Use it with High Sierra until you are ready to invest. Click to expand.They might be out of date, but they're still very excellent and very capable (and most importantly - upgradable) machines. And the cards can indeed output 10-bit colour, we're actually limited by the cheap monitors we're using that limits us to 8-bit!

Besides our clients don't give a stuff about 10-bit colour anyway and we don't do HDR work. 4k yes, 8k is way far far off to even think about right now.

MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt GPU isn't going to cut it either, since both cheese graters and Thunderbolt GPU's are both limited to 4x PCIe so you're not gaining or losing anything there, and the MacBook Pro's max out at 32Gb RAM. Our editing suites all have 64 and 96Gb RAM in them to cope with the work that we do. No one is going to furnish an edit suite with a MacBook. I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong on all points. We do have some Trash Can Macs for the higher demand onlining (and they have to sit in Sonnet chassis to we can use Blackmagic SDI breakout boards), but for offline we're sticking with cheese graters. They might be out of date, but they're still very excellent and very capable (and most importantly - upgradable) machines.

And the cards can indeed output 10-bit colour, we're actually limited by the cheap monitors we're using that limits us to 8-bit! Besides our clients don't give a stuff about 10-bit colour anyway and we don't do HDR work.

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4k yes, 8k is way far far off to even think about right now. MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt GPU isn't going to cut it either, since both cheese graters and Thunderbolt GPU's are both limited to 4x PCIe so you're not gaining or losing anything there, and the MacBook Pro's max out at 32Gb RAM. Our editing suites all have 64 and 96Gb RAM in them to cope with the work that we do. No one is going to furnish an edit suite with a MacBook. I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong on all points. We do have some Trash Can Macs for the higher demand onlining (and they have to sit in Sonnet chassis to we can use Blackmagic SDI breakout boards), but for offline we're sticking with cheese graters.

​ NVIDIA has released alternate graphics drivers for OS X El Capitan 10.11.4. These are separate from the drivers Apple ships as standard, and should be considered experimental. These drivers have been known to solve OpenCL issues with certain applications, as well as providing better native GPU power management for certain devices.

NOTE: These drivers are currently the only method to get full acceleration for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 750 Ti, 950, 960, 970, 980, 980 Ti, and TITAN X 'Maxwell' graphics cards. There are no current Macs with these cards, so support is absent natively in OS X. If you've installed the drivers before, you may get a notification to update to the new drivers from the built in System Preferences pane.