In TaT there is no page 7 ??? ;-)
Lol...maybe I'm seein the iPad version of the site and it's different for me?
In TaT there is no page 7 ??? ;-)
Lol...maybe I'm seein the iPad version of the site and it's different for me?
Sorry, my bad and you're right! Safari on iPad is ok!
Since last update TaT it's acting drunk!
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20309792/
Cheers ;-)
Forum member DMThomas made the most well known example on this forum at the link below. The performance of the GTX 670 between both operating systems was just a few frames per second. Yes the API was different but it didn't make much difference in the benchmark with the GeForce 670. Switching to the GTX 970 was a whole other story. Windows was much faster.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1782921/
I wouldn't call the deltas earth-shatteringly different between Kepler and Maxwell. Being 10 to 15% behind Windows is about as good as it gets under OS X, in general. Yes, the Maxwell GPU has a slightly bigger delta, but we're not talking a massive difference and thus I question your assertion that the Maxwell drivers aren't "native".
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the DirectX team at NVIDIA has spent a lot more time/effort tuning the driver since it's a flagship product with full support and all that. However, when you said it wasn't a native driver under OS X, it sounded like you were suggesting there was basically no acceleration at all. The NVIDIA Mac team might squeeze out a couple more percent if it was in fact an official product under that OS, but those numbers suggest performance in GPU-limited cases is already very good and around the ballpark of what you'd expect compared with Windows. If it was 30-50% slower, then yes I would agree that the Maxwell driver under OS X had issues. However, given the fact it's not officially supported, I'm quite happy with the performance of my GTX 980 under OS X.
The universal nature of driver packages means you will get close, but not quite the optimal, performance out of your card. The lack of full nine series support is more evident in feature set loss than in performance. We can see that in the CUDA bugs and the communication with all the display ports, and then we have OS X getting in the way of refresh rates at 4K but I haven't been able to confirm that yet. I only use the top most Display Port at 1920x1200
Hi there,
Is it possible to recommend new Nvidia GTX? Thank you & merry xmas.
Is it possible to recommend new Nvidia GTX? Thank you & merry xmas.
I've ensured that OS X is selected in the startup disk pane and I've done shut downs from OS X and then powered on and attempted to option boot windows.
What's going on here? I don't have another 2.5 sled to mount the bootcamp volume on the backplane, but I don't see why that should be necessary.
So when option booting and attempting to select the bootcamp volume by blind chance, the mac pro freezes. Pressing the power button again immediately shuts the mac off. But when I use BootChamp, then my backlit keyboard flickers like usual as the apricorn EFI boots up. Additionally, pressing the power button in this instance does not shut the mac down, so windows is doing something unusual that I cannot see but has not yet reached the log in screen. Is it possible I need a different graphics driver?
Could the graphics card be reporting insufficient power? Its currently powered with two 8-pin plugs from my 5.25" 450W supply and it clearly works fine in OS X.
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the Apricorn sled, while bootable, does not appear as an option under the start up disc section. Only under option boot does the selection become available, despite the presence of an ejectable bootcamp volume in finder. And of course I sold my GT120 ages ago. Arg, back to trolling for used EFI cards
Hi, I'm looking to up the GPU performance in my 2006 Mac Pro by upgrading the video card and am wondering is there a limit on where gains can be seen?
Just get the same GTX 970 we normally recommend for good value performance. You will probably get about 10fps less than that those with a more modern spec but that will still be very good for everything you want to do (example, latest games running 1080p max settings at over 40fps), unless you are either a professional gamer or need almost real time CUDA renders.
You were correct.^^^^It does appear your video card is gone.
That is one of the two reasons I am hesitant to install GTX 750 or GTX 750 Ti as these Maxwell cards will require me to upgrade to Yosemite and therefore deal with kext signing.The Kext Signing issue with Trim Enabler only affects Yosemite. Mavericks and ML and not affected and no precautions are needed to run Trim Enabler.
As far as Video Cards are concerned, I have a MVC modified GTX570 that has been sitting around in a box for quite some time. When I pulled it, it worked perfectly. It was used on a 3,1 then a 5,1 Mac Pro.