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Webdriver for GTX 1080&1070

Sleep is OOB for virtually all recent mainboards. In the earlier days it required DSDT patching, but that's not necessary any more.

Sleep/wake will break when using unsupported graphics though (e.g. most AMD or modern Intel iGPU with legacy connection). Any Nvidia GPU will be fine.

Many issues are caused by badly configured systems or wrong hardware selection, both of which can be avoided by reading (and understanding) a few simple guides.

I started my journey with a Nehalem based Hackintosh back in 2010. Choosing the correct hardware was very important back then, so I bought the same mainboard tonymacx86 himself was using, which guaranteed having pre-patched DSDT files for all BIOS versions. Getting my HD 5770 running required some extra treatment, because support wasn't native yet (I remember copying .kexts from a recently released iMac) and required IOReg injection.

None of this is an issue any more, installing El Capitan or Sierra on this machine is as simple as downloading Clover and using it to boot the installer. Post processing doesn't require more than choosing the correct audio codec and installing an Ethernet driver. tmx86's tools can further automate this process.

Installing minor OS updates hasn't been an issue in this decade, it has always been as simple as on a real Mac (as long as one stays away from hacked system files). Thanks to Clover major OS updates can be installed the same way, but it's a good idea to update Clover first in case Apple has made any low level modifications to the system (e.g. introduction of SIP).

I'm not claiming that installing a Hackintosh is as easy as unboxing a genuine Mac, but it's certainly not more difficult than maintaining my aging MacPro3,1 (installing Sierra & Updates, installing GPU upgrades, USB3, ...). My Nehalem Hackintosh will most likely be fine until Apple starts requiring a newer instruction set.
 
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I know an anecdote isn't the same thing as data, but I've had a number of Macs over the past 12 years, and every single one of them had some type of hardware issue. The Ivy Bridge hackintosh I made didn't. The hackintosh also ran cooler and quieter than my Mac mini (while running a Xeon E3 and Radeon 6850 desktop parts).

I 'downgraded' to a Mac Pro 5,1 a while back because the Clover installation process in the early days required downloading unsigned utilities in the clear from SourceForge. As a software developer, I want my build machine to be as secure as I can make it. Now that SourceForge uses HTTPS for downloads, it's just a matter of trusting the developers of the hackintosh tools and kexts (and I've not seen any reason to distrust the developers of the current hackintosh toolset).
 
Prince134 said:
Wow.
This is my first time see the performance hope for the later Sierra. But also my first time heard of a clean install of FCPX in Sierra can bring the performance back to the level of El Capitan. A single D700 (your 290x) can do 19 seconds I'd say my 7970 should be close. From what you mentioned it can be issue just because I migrate the apps every time I upgrade OS. I doubt if your benefit is because of D700 ( I hope it's not, since I have Titan X, and I want to see that 20 second again). Can you tell me what version is your FCP, latest 10.3.3? are you in 10.12.4? It would be great if we can have your test with Nvidia cards if you have.
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Since i install FCPX from AppStore it's 10.3.3 and OS is now 10.12.4
Actual because of that 50 seconds problem, i thought i would move to Nvidia with Hackintosh system. But now i will stay with 290X. And I'm very happy.
I usually edit 4K source with internal OS's RAID system and when 290X was 50 seconds it was a little bit loud and slow, but now quiet and fast.
 
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I just got notified and installed an updated webdriver from nvidia. It fixed the rendering issues in the metal based game "The Witness". Glad to see nvidia supporting pascal on the mac.
 
Those drivers are for 10.12.4 only, anyone tried them on a different OS? I don't have a Pascal card, and I much prefer El Capitan than Sierra on my Mac Pro, am I "stuck" with a 980Ti?
 
pierrox said:
Those drivers are for 10.12.4 only, anyone tried them on a different OS? I don't have a Pascal card, and I much prefer El Capitan than Sierra on my Mac Pro, am I "stuck" with a 980Ti?
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Whats so bad about sierra? In the Apple world, new hardware only supports the OS version available at its release and beyond. This is also true for the pascal drivers. If you insist on El Capitan, you will be limited to the hardware that was released while El Capitan was current.
 
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pierrox said:
Those drivers are for 10.12.4 only, anyone tried them on a different OS? I don't have a Pascal card, and I much prefer El Capitan than Sierra on my Mac Pro, am I "stuck" with a 980Ti?
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As with the first iteration of the 378 driver, yes it's 10.12.4 only. I am also puzzled by your disdain of Sierra?

Lou
 
NVIDIA only releases new stuff for the most recent OS from Apple. If you don't like it, don't buy a Pascal card and be content with whatever driver was released for that OS. Once a new OS comes out, the old ones are basically dead (to both NVIDIA and Apple).
 
^^^^Well, not exactly true. When Apple released security updates for both El Cap and Yosemite, Nvidia did issue Web Driver updates to cover the new build number. But, yes as far as adding new hardware is concerned your statement is true.

Lou
 
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^^^^Well, not exactly true. When Apple released security updates for both El Cap and Yosemite, Nvidia did issue Web Driver updates to cover the new build number. But, yes as far as adding new hardware is concerned your statement is true.

Lou
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I'm specifically talking about driver improvements, sorry. NVIDIA appears to just rebuild their driver for the older OSes, never actually adding support for new GPUs or fixing bugs etc.
 
Does nvidia have release notes/changelogs anywhere for these releases? I've poked around but can't seem to find them.
 
irked said:
Does nvidia have release notes/changelogs anywhere for these releases? I've poked around but can't seem to find them.
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Just this:

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Lou
 
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Here are two results from my 1080 Ti in a 12c 3.46GHz cMP:

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But the irony is thick. Metal is Apple's latest and greatest and CUDA is de facto compute standard in many things. But since my OpenCL performance is more like a train wreck, my situation kind of sucks anyway:

FCPX is worse than my RX 480, the DaVinci Resolve version I use (MacAppStore) doesn't support CUDA—and that actually came as a very unpleasant surprise. Maxwell Render 4 does use CUDA to accelerate rendering, but the Mac version is "experimental" and I found it buggy.

All in all it's sort of a face palm moment and I'll probably return the card after the weekend if I can't diagnose the real issue and fix it.
 
AndreeOnline said:
But the irony is thick. Metal is Apple's latest and greatest and CUDA is de facto compute standard in many things. But since my OpenCL performance is more like a train wreck, my situation kind of sucks anyway:

FCPX is worse than my RX 480, the DaVinci Resolve version I use (MacAppStore) doesn't support CUDA—and that actually came as a very unpleasant surprise. Maxwell Render 4 does use CUDA to accelerate rendering, but the Mac version is "experimental" and I found it buggy.
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So if I was setting up an editing suite that I needed to make mortgage payments with, the lessons I'd be hearing are:
  • Never buy professional tools from the Mac App store, because they're cut-down versions with narrower functionality.
  • Never build a professional toolchain on Apple tools, because it'll be subject to, and potentially held back by, Apple's larger platform political strategy.
 
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  • Never buy professional tools from the Mac App store, because they're cut-down versions with narrower functionality.
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App Store version of Da Vinci Resolve is the same as their site's download version and uses the same core code as the Windows version. The app is fine, the Nvidia Mac web drivers are poor beta and nothing more than an experiment to use paying customers to make noise at Apple's door. Pawns in a corporate game.
 
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