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So is anyone actually running a GTX 1070/80?
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^^^^Aww - And I thought I was on your ignore list
But, no one, absolutely no one, knows quite as much as you
Lou
But, no one, absolutely no one, knows quite as much as youLou
I have the 1080 GTX in my Mac Pro 5,1 but it only works in windows, I also have a unboxing video too
Here some pictures too
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I check nowinstock.com every now and then and the only card to reliably be in stock over the last few weeks has been the GTX 1070. Haven't seen too many days where the RX 480 is available and occasionally the GTX 1080 is in stock. Personally, I put a GTX 1080 in my PC a month ago and have been very happy. Hopefully Nvidia will come out with OS X drivers for it soon and then I'll have an awesome hackintosh.
Actually, I looked it up when I got my GTX 980. It was not even bottlenecked by PCIe 2. This might be different with the 1080 though.
Glad that you got one.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29795238&postcount=516 That is the reason why it started to be hard to find GPUs in stock. AMD sold 350 thousand GPUs in less than a month around the whole world.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2480443&page=5 I suggest observing this thread, but not drawing any conclusions yet. It appears that people are gathering examples of Nvidia drivers gimping the image quality in games to gain performance. Games spotted so far: Witcher 3, Ashes of Singularity, Hitman, Doom(Vulkan). It cannot be problem of recording because it would affect also AMD GPUs and its not happening.
Both Maxwell and Pascal GPUs appear to be affected.
Both Maxwell and Pascal GPUs appear to be affected.
NVIDIA store have tons of stock of the 1080 btw. They've had stock for over a week now. Obviously just FE cards though.
http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1080/
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1080/
If you already have, or want a Pascal GPU to use in macOS then its worth contacting NVIDIA and making an 'official request' for web drivers for Pascal GPUs.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/chat.php
I just did this over chat and I think the more that do this the more likely NVIDIA will act. Worth a shot anyway!
Me: Hi - I have a GTX 1080 and need Mac OS X web drivers. Can you tell me when NVIDIA will be releasing their web drivers for Mac for Pascal GPUs?
Yugendar: I am sorry we do not have any future release information. GTX 1080 is not a compatible with MAC OS X
Me: I would like to submit an official request for macOS support for Pascal GPUs. Can you make this request please?
Yugendar: I will have this requested forwarded to the concerned team. Please help me with the OSX version, Mac model.
Me: Mac Pro 2010. OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
Yugendar: May I know the MAC Pro Generation please is that 3,1 or 4,1
Me: 5,1
Yugendar: Thank you. I will have this forwarded to the concerned team.
http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1080/
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1080/
If you already have, or want a Pascal GPU to use in macOS then its worth contacting NVIDIA and making an 'official request' for web drivers for Pascal GPUs.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/chat.php
I just did this over chat and I think the more that do this the more likely NVIDIA will act. Worth a shot anyway!
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Here's my Time Spy result in 3DMark for anyone interested in what an X5690 Mac Pro can do with a 1080 running in PCIe 1.1 in Windows 10.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13607976?
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13607976?
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We can see the bottleneck now. With a Skylake or Haswell the 1080 scores circa 7000 points.
Yep, very much expected but not as significant as I thought it would be.
Doom runs like a monster at 1600p.
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GTX 770 has a Time Spy score of 2058.
GTX 1080 three times faster. I want this card.MVC please sell us an EFI version of the GTX1080, regardless of OS X drivers support!
The secret of Nvidia Maxwell and Pascal efficiency and performance: http://www.realworldtech.com/tile-based-rasterization-nvidia-gpus/
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/149697/spy/120889/spy/189912
My Mac Pro with essentially the same processor and a eVGA 980ti FTW for comparison, and my X99 i7-5820 @ 4.5GHz with a eVGA 1080 FTW thrown in for good measure.
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After all the years of owning the MP I should know this by now..... but what's the PCIe 1.1 limitation? Is the PCIe version/speed always limited to 1.1 on Windows on an MP4.1/5.1? (with all GPU's?) And the 1080 is the first GPU to actually run into the limit?
Here are my Time Spy scores with a pretty similar system (W3690) but with a stock 980 Ti:
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/196848
Seems that my graphic score and Graphic Test 1 and 2 are about 66% from your scores. The clock speed of the 980Ti is also 66% from your 1080 so I'm wondering if there is direct correlation in it?
Official Apple cards and Mac Edition cards run at PCIe 2.0.
PC cards will run at PCIe 1.1 because whatever initializes PCIe 2.0 for Mac is not present in PC cards. However, there are exceptions where they can be made to run at PCIe 2.0:
- Unmodified PC cards will run at PCIe 2.0 starting with newer versions of OS X. I cannot remember exactly which, but I think it was Mavericks that initializes PCIe 2.0. Obviously this is OS X only and Windows, Linux, etc is still stuck at 1.1.
- Nvidia cards flashed with a Mac EFI will run at PCIe 2.0.
- AMD cards need to have the resistor mod done and then they will run at PCIe 2.0.
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http://www.bitsandchips.it/52-engli...ds-will-probably-have-a-short-commercial-life
Well, interesting that Nvidia is pushing the GPUs so fast. And the most important: why?
Well, interesting that Nvidia is pushing the GPUs so fast. And the most important: why?