Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
New Nvidia GTX 970 and 980 - cMP?
- Thread starter PostProdMan
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Nope. For this sort of thing, WINE is just working through OS X's drivers, so it'll be bound by the same limitations.
Oh I already know about power. They all for the most part are dual 6-pin cards unless you go for an overclocked card or something like that.
My question is with this exact card: http://www.ebay.com/itm/201200484575?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Will that exact card display video and work in Yosemite off of the stock drivers? (even if not fully accelerated, I dont mind. I keep my gaming in my windows partition)
If not, Will I be able to install the needed web drivers while using my GTX 570 and then swap out cards after the driver has been installed and all will be good?
I have had excellent luck with eVGA, my 570 is the "superclocked" model as well and its had no issues with it at all.
I've got some questions about the GTX 970, or rather I should say that I got one thinking an install would be somewhat simple and have discovered that I cannot get the system to boot with the card in.
I have an early 2009 Mac Pro. I've installed the NVIDIA Quadro/Geforce drivers for Yosemite 10.10.2. I've installed the CUDA software.
When I swap out my old ATI Radeon card for the GTX 970, the black screen persists (as expected) until boot is over. Then, a gray screen with a mouse appears for 10-15 seconds. Then the computer restarts. I can find no way to break this cycle.
I'm using the two 6-pin power cables from my ATI Radeon card and I tried the 970 in several of the PCIE ports.
I've discovered I can boot using the Radeon 4870 AND the GTX 970 as long as the power cables are attached to the Radeon. I assume this means that the 970 isn't getting enough power to perform, so the system never switches to it. Under that setup, the NVIDIA driver manager will recognize that there's SOMETHING in the 970 PCIE slot, but it doesn't recognize what.
I'm hoping someone has some insight! Thanks in advance.
I have an early 2009 Mac Pro. I've installed the NVIDIA Quadro/Geforce drivers for Yosemite 10.10.2. I've installed the CUDA software.
When I swap out my old ATI Radeon card for the GTX 970, the black screen persists (as expected) until boot is over. Then, a gray screen with a mouse appears for 10-15 seconds. Then the computer restarts. I can find no way to break this cycle.
I'm using the two 6-pin power cables from my ATI Radeon card and I tried the 970 in several of the PCIE ports.
I've discovered I can boot using the Radeon 4870 AND the GTX 970 as long as the power cables are attached to the Radeon. I assume this means that the 970 isn't getting enough power to perform, so the system never switches to it. Under that setup, the NVIDIA driver manager will recognize that there's SOMETHING in the 970 PCIE slot, but it doesn't recognize what.
I'm hoping someone has some insight! Thanks in advance.
Glad I re-read through the earlier posts! Somehow I missed that another member has used an eVGA 970 card. I found the exact model you used and have it saved to buy later on. Thanks for sharing.
partnership in the EU for the GTX-980 EFI?
Hi MVC,
What's the state of your partnership in the EU for the GTX-980 EFI?
Another question that I have for your current offer on your website is, why only 60 days warranty while factory warranty is 3 years? Or is this just the period for returning the card, DOA or getting borked during the first 60 days?
how-does-the-60-day-warranty-work
TIA & Cheers
Hi MVC,
What's the state of your partnership in the EU for the GTX-980 EFI?
Another question that I have for your current offer on your website is, why only 60 days warranty while factory warranty is 3 years? Or is this just the period for returning the card, DOA or getting borked during the first 60 days?
how-does-the-60-day-warranty-work
TIA & Cheers
Yes, you don't have Web Drivers installed, without which you got NADA.
Will be wrapping film job today and be with GPU stuff 100% starting tomorrow.
Our warranty is to cover bad flash, etc that shows up soon. Long term warranty are from manufacturer, we encourage buyers to register and if service is needed send to us first, if we can't easily fix then we will flash original rom and you will send back for manufacturer warranty.
From my understanding of this, with a cMP, it's an artificial limitation imposed by Apple and it works fine under Windows.
Well thats good to hear. I still haven't registered my 780... Guess I'll do that in the next days.
Hmm... I installed the NVIDIA Web Driver 434.01.03b01, which is how I got the NVIDIA driver manager. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Also, I foolishly updated my OS the other day, so the Driver Manager won't let me select the NVIDIA driver anymoreit's stuck in OS X default mode.
Is there a different driver I should be downloading? I was under the impression that the Quadro/Geforce drivers for OS X 10.10.2 would recognize a GTX970.
Always update web driver first then OS. You will have to rewind to 10.10.1, sorry
No, that's great news! Thanks man, if it's as simple as heading back a few ticks on the Yosemite clock you've saved me a lot of heartache!
Cool. Just remember when 10.10.2 official comes out you wait a few days for the web driver first then install the driver and then update the OS.
New Nvidia GTX 970 and 980 - cMP?
So we just send the new card (under warranty by manufacturer) again to you? But who will pay for the second rom flash, or is that also covered under your warranty?
Can the manufacturer claim (read out rom) defaults for flashing its original rom, and therefore changing the original product? Many manufacturers void warranty if tempering with products can be proven.
So we just send the new card (under warranty by manufacturer) again to you? But who will pay for the second rom flash, or is that also covered under your warranty?
Can the manufacturer claim (read out rom) defaults for flashing its original rom, and therefore changing the original product? Many manufacturers void warranty if tempering with products can be proven.
Last edited:
Nothing to worry about.
Haven't had a problem with this yet. We would naturally cover getting the card reflashed.
BTW, yesterday I was commenting to my assistant how solid the GTX780 & Titan cards have been, especially in comparison to the 7950/70/R9 280X cards.
While we have had multiple failures of the 7950/70 and even R9 280x cards, the 780s have been virtually trouble free. The biggest issue we have had is people updating CUDA and the recent clashes between some versions of Web Driver with CUDA drivers. Suddenly CUDA quits working and they blame the card when in fact it is just a driver mis-match (that we have no control over).
I would say that failure rate of GK107 and GK110 is MUCH lower Tahiti cards from AMD, by an order of magnitude. AMD has had to run their cards at full throttle to remain within sight of Nvidia's taillights and it shows in their cards longevity. Apple turning the 7970 clocks down by 10-15% when renamed as "D700" was probably not just for cooling, 3 years of Applecare would be a problem otherwise if cards run at retail clocks.
With GTX970/980 running as cool as they do I would predict similar low rates of trouble.
Thanks MVC for your detailed reply! But is there a way to read out the re-flashed default GTX PC rom - to be send to the manufacturer for warranty - to check is was altered before?. No to sound to be in a panic, just for clarification?
Really looking forward to the GTX-970/980 EFI! It seems to me the best GPU upgrade for the MP 4.1 / 5.1 YTD
Cheers
Once a flashed 970/980 is available, is it expected to always have to run nVidia's drivers from their web site? If so, that's a shame (not complaining at/about the people working on the flash, 3rd party driver install & updates are always a pain). Timing on updates is always an issue, and ANY update (or lack of update) to either nVidia's drivers or OS X, might break the ability to use the 970/980 and leave us owners out in the cold.
Thanks for all the hard work,
Frank
Thanks for all the hard work,
Frank
That is the question I'm curious about also.
I recently installed an early version of 10.8 on an extra hard drive, with my GTX-680 Mac installed. While the machine booted fine and I got to the desktop, if the machine went to sleep, it would not wake back up. I would have to do a hard restart. Then I remembered that I had not installed web drivers, and early versions of 10.8 did not have native Apple drivers for the 680.
So my question is that assuming Apple does NOT release native GTX-9xx drivers, with a GTX 980 Mac, would we at least be able to get to the desktop?
I have this same card and it works in my Mac Pro 3,1 2.8. I installed the latest web driver 343.02.01f01 and Cuda driver 6.5.37 and all seems to be working. This card is so long I originally thought it wouldn't fit in the case but it does for those that may have been wondering. My monitors are two old Dell 2007FP's so both DVI ports work but I could not test any of the DP ports nor the HDMI port.
Great news !!!!
The Mac Edition GTX980 from us actually solves this very problem.
While the unfleshed 980 owners will be yanking their card and replacing with a GT120 or whatever to download and select the Web Drivers for 10.10.2, people with new Mac Edition GTX980 from MacVidCards will be able to just kick back, download the drivers and enable.
Problem solved.
The Mac Edition GTX980 from us actually solves this very problem.
While the unfleshed 980 owners will be yanking their card and replacing with a GT120 or whatever to download and select the Web Drivers for 10.10.2, people with new Mac Edition GTX980 from MacVidCards will be able to just kick back, download the drivers and enable.
Problem solved.