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Frequently Asked Questions About NVIDIA PC (non-EFI) Graphics Cards

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m4v3r1ck said:
Is there any change some ROM-guru will create a custom Mac EFI one for the NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3? And how about the TDP for putting it in a cMP 5.1?

Cheers
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Mac Vid Cards already has GTX 1080 firmware ready. In my opinion, the odds of a freely available firmware are highly unlikely.

TDP for GTX 1080 TI is 250. No different from a GTX 980 Ti and those worked fine.
 
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Does anyone else experience frequent kernel panics and reboots? Seems as many are having these issues here and they haven't been resolved.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/...-kernel-panics-with-nvidia-web-driver-on-mac/

Happens frequently for me under GPU load with Adobe applications (After Effects, Premiere, etc). Sometimes the system will "stick", and sometimes it'll go black and reboot.

Mac Pro 5,1 12 core
GTX 960 4GB
 
pastrychef said:
Mac Vid Cards already has GTX 1080 firmware ready. In my opinion, the odds of a freely available firmware are highly unlikely.

TDP for GTX 1080 TI is 250. No different from a GTX 980 Ti and those worked fine.
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Synchro3 said:
Yes, already done: http://www.macvidcards.com/blog/nvidia-pascal-coming-to-macs-efi-already-in-the-works
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Thanks guys, great news! I was thinking about MVC for a sec, but couldn't find - still banned? - any recent posts of him anymore. So obvious he's still baking those ROMs. I'll contact him about his European distributor again.

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Public service announcement to those who are considering purchasing GTX 1080s:

In February, Nvidia announced that upcoming variants of the GTX 1080 will feature 11Gbps GDDR5X VRAM, a slight bump up from the 10Gbps GDDR5X that's being used in current versions. It may help close the gap between the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti a little bit...
Screen Shot 2017-04-11 at 11.13.28 AM.png
Source: GeForce GTX 1080 Supercharged With Next-Gen 11 Gbps GDDR5X Memory | GeForce
 
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So I went to install the latest OSX update and then I tried to login using VNC to do the video card driver update and it gives me a blank black screen in the VNC window. Any ideas why this is happening? The first time I updated, it worked great. This time I am stuck and can't figure out how to get my computer running again.

Thanks to anyone who can help!
 
irked said:
I'm wondering if these new drivers are going to roll in improvements for Maxwell as well - I found enough weird glitchy alpha interactions with a GTX 980 and the web drivers that I went back to a sad old 7950..
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Will the Titan X 12GB Maxwell work in my MacPro 5,1 10.12.3 with the current available drivers?
 
Now that Nvida has come out with it's new driver for IOS will the 1080ti work in my stock 2010 MacPro 5,1 12 core in place of my flashed GTX 770? Will there be power issues?
 
between2tides said:
Now that Nvida has come out with it's new driver for IOS will the 1080ti work in my stock 2010 MacPro 5,1 12 core in place of my flashed GTX 770? Will there be power issues?
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First off it's not IOS, but MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 Build (16E195). Yes, the new 378 web driver will work just fine. As far as power issues, if you had none before, you will have none now. With a GTX 770 you should be fine. I'm currently running a GTX 780 on internal power, with no issues. I will be replacing that with a GTX 1080.

Lou
 
Oops. What was I writing, not what I was thinking. I've been happily running 10.10.5. Thinking I'll skip El Capitan completely.
 
Apologies for my ignorance, but i'm new to all these nvidia web drivers.
Only ever used apple branded cards.
If nvidia announced mac support for the 10 series cards, how come the web driver list of supported cards only shows official mac efi cards.
I assume the geforce/quadro driver is what you need for a 1060/1070/1080.

Additionally if i was to leave a 5770 (mac) in one slot and add a 10 series card, with one power connector, presumably I could boot to the 5770 for updating drivers in the future.
FYI I have multiple monitors connected to multiple gpus.
 
MarkC426 said:
Apologies for my ignorance, but i'm new to all these nvidia web drivers.
Only ever used apple branded cards.
If nvidia announced mac support for the 10 series cards, how come the web driver list of supported cards only shows official mac efi cards. Because that's way Nvidia has always done things if there is no "Apple Edition" released GPU.

I assume the geforce/quadro driver is what you need for a 1060/1070/1080. You need this driver:

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/117854/en-us

And for Cuda this:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-8.0.81-driver.html

Note - The Pascal Cards and web drivers only work in Sierra 10.12.4

Additionally if i was to leave a 5770 (mac) in one slot and add a 10 series card, with one power connector, presumably I could boot to the 5770 for updating drivers in the future. AFAIK, an Nvidia card needs to booted to install the Web Driver.

FYI I have multiple monitors connected to multiple gpus.
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Lou
 
You should be able to just install the web driver, even if there is no NVIDIA card in the system. They removed the "supported hardware" check a long time ago.
 
Got a sweet deal on a GTX 980Ti today. I know we've just gotten support for Pascal cards but I'm not convinced the extra spend equates to the extra horsepower given the limitations of the cMP architecture. Hopefully it'll make my Wineskins kick ass compared to the GTX 680 I'm running at the moment!
 
Hello there,

Is it true that 5,1 Mac Pros are limited to three GPUs (no matter internal or external) if running Sierra?

I was planning on running four or eight 1080 TIs via external chassis but apparently there is some sort of software limitation.

If this is true, has anyone figured out what was altered between 10.11 and 10.12? Surely this can be "fixed".

Thanks
HP
 
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