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Webdriver for GTX 1080&1070

SoyCapitanSoyCapitan said:
If that thing can be called a Maxwell driver.
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Pretty good for "no driver"... ;)

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Can't comment on OpenCL capabilities as neither my (professional) applications nor games take use of it. OpenGL is fast and stable, and that's all I care about.
 
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So, I recently migrated fully over to Windows 10 a) to see if was possible and b) to have more freedom with GPU upgrades.

Windows has for the most part been fine, though I did have one issue it developed after a while where it would no longer accelerate my EVGA Mac 680, and when it tried to initialise the drivers I'd be presented with a black screen instead. I had to reinstall Windows to resolve that.

Anyway, I recently bought a 1080 and installed it. Not tested it under macOS for obvious reasons, but under Windows 10 it runs fine :) A couple of notes people might find interesting or helpful;

  • You'll need a female 2x6-pin to male 1x8-pin to convert the stock PCIe power cables to power the card. I'm sure you can achieve this other ways, but this is how I did it and it works perfectly.
  • No boot screen or Windows loading screen are presented; only the login screen. Presumably this is because of Mac EFI compatibility or lack thereof. It does actually boot faster than when the 680 was installed though.
  • Updating drivers makes the screen go black for longer than I'm used to. Don't panic if this happens to you, give it a minute or two and it'll come back.
  • It looks sweet when the logo is lit up. Wasn't really expecting that.
  • Even though it's bottle-necked by a W3670, 1066Mhz RAM and PCIe v1.1, it absolutely flies. The Division at 1440p gets over 60fps reliably, and DOOM at 1440p on Ultra gets 120fps at times. Very impressed. Yes it's probably not as good as being in a brand new i7 6700k rig, but I can't afford that at the moment.
  • Running a 27" 2010 Apple Cinema Display via a female mini-displayport to displayport adapter than I received with the 680. Works perfectly.
  • Only issues are after installing the 1080 is Sleep appears not to be an option any more in Windows 10. Unsure why, perhaps this is another EFI thing.
  • The 'Advanced Startup Mode' also doesn't quite work. So, you can choose to restart in different diagnostic modes, but when the machine restarts, the screen that allows you to select one doesn't appear. Again I assume this is because the Mac EFI can't initialise the BIOS GPU.
  • Other low-level windows like CHKDSK don't appear either.
  • Weirdly I can see a second display connected, but I'm only using one DisplayPort connector. Unsure why this is.
If you guys have any questions, please give me a shout in this thread.
 
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Draeconis said:
So, I recently migrated fully over to Windows 10 a) to see if was possible and b) to have more freedom with GPU upgrades.

Windows has for the most part been fine, though I did have one issue it developed after a while where it would no longer accelerate my EVGA Mac 680, and when it tried to initialise the drivers I'd be presented with a black screen instead. I had to reinstall Windows to resolve that.

Anyway, I recently bought a 1080 and installed it. Not tested it under macOS for obvious reasons, but under Windows 10 it runs fine :) A couple of notes people might find interesting or helpful;

  • You'll need a female 2x6-pin to male 1x8-pin to convert the stock PCIe power cables to power the card. I'm sure you can achieve this other ways, but this is how I did it and it works perfectly.
  • No boot screen or Windows screen are presented; only the login screen. Presumably this is because of Mac EFI compatibility or lack thereof. It does actually boot faster than when the 680 was installed though.
  • Updating drivers makes the screen go black for longer than I'm used to. Don't panic if this happens to you, give it a minute or two and it'll come back.
  • It looks sweet when the logo is lit up. Wasn't really expecting that.
  • Even though it's bottle-necked by a W3670, 1066Mhz RAM and PCIe v1.1, it absolutely flies. The Division at 1440p gets over 60fps reliably, and DOOM at 1440p on Ultra gets 120fps at times. Very impressed. Yes it's probably not as good as being in a brand new i7 6700k rig, but I can't afford that at the moment.
  • Running a 27" 2010 Apple Cinema Display via a female mini-displayport to displayport adapter than I received with the 680. Works perfectly.
  • Only issue after installing the 1080 is Sleep appears not to be an option any more in Windows 10. Unsure why, perhaps this is another EFI thing.
If you guys have any questions, please give me a shout in this thread.
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Yep, doing the same. GTX 1080 runs very nicely in a Mac Pro with no problems. It ends up being a very silent and capable PC. See sig below for details.
 
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Synchro3 said:
Nvidia implemented G-Sync and solved latest issues with OpenCL with newest web drivers for Sierra. And released CUDA 8. In my opinion this is a strong indication that they continue developing drivers.
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I realize there are no web drivers for 1070/1080/Pascal, but can anyone tell me definitively whether or not the recent CUDA 8 driver can utilize those cards? I'm mainly interested in compute tasks, and can use a GT120 for actual display output, while simply running the higher end card w/o display. So, can you do CUDA w/ a 1070, say, and not worry about proper display, graphics acceleration, OpenGL, etc?
 
Just received my GTX 1070 today and there still looks to be no sign of any driver support for Sierra. Damn u NVIDIA
 
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Draeconis said:
So, I recently migrated fully over to Windows 10 a) to see if was possible and b) to have more freedom with GPU upgrades.

Windows has for the most part been fine, though I did have one issue it developed after a while where it would no longer accelerate my EVGA Mac 680, and when it tried to initialise the drivers I'd be presented with a black screen instead. I had to reinstall Windows to resolve that.

Anyway, I recently bought a 1080 and installed it. Not tested it under macOS for obvious reasons, but under Windows 10 it runs fine :) A couple of notes people might find interesting or helpful;

  • You'll need a female 2x6-pin to male 1x8-pin to convert the stock PCIe power cables to power the card. I'm sure you can achieve this other ways, but this is how I did it and it works perfectly.
  • No boot screen or Windows loading screen are presented; only the login screen. Presumably this is because of Mac EFI compatibility or lack thereof. It does actually boot faster than when the 680 was installed though.
  • Updating drivers makes the screen go black for longer than I'm used to. Don't panic if this happens to you, give it a minute or two and it'll come back.
  • It looks sweet when the logo is lit up. Wasn't really expecting that.
  • Even though it's bottle-necked by a W3670, 1066Mhz RAM and PCIe v1.1, it absolutely flies. The Division at 1440p gets over 60fps reliably, and DOOM at 1440p on Ultra gets 120fps at times. Very impressed. Yes it's probably not as good as being in a brand new i7 6700k rig, but I can't afford that at the moment.
  • Running a 27" 2010 Apple Cinema Display via a female mini-displayport to displayport adapter than I received with the 680. Works perfectly.
  • Only issues are after installing the 1080 is Sleep appears not to be an option any more in Windows 10. Unsure why, perhaps this is another EFI thing.
  • The 'Advanced Startup Mode' also doesn't quite work. So, you can choose to restart in different diagnostic modes, but when the machine restarts, the screen that allows you to select one doesn't appear. Again I assume this is because the Mac EFI can't initialise the BIOS GPU.
  • Other low-level windows like CHKDSK don't appear either.
  • Weirdly I can see a second display connected, but I'm only using one DisplayPort connector. Unsure why this is.
If you guys have any questions, please give me a shout in this thread.
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Hi, That's great. I'm thinking about the same but a little bit worried about pcie speed.
I've found This http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,13541.0.html
Do you think it will work?
 
Norbert Mikołajczyk said:
Hi, That's great. I'm thinking about the same but a little bit worried about pcie speed.
I've found This http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,13541.0.html
Do you think it will work?
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Hi, I can confirm all that Draeconis stated is correct! I've also dedicated one of my cMPs to run Windows 10 and use a GTX 1080 FE with the same cable adapter.
No issues other than the additional phantom screen in device manager/display settings, as mentioned by Draeconis, which is somewhat annoying.
Performance is awesome despite the lower PCIe bandwidth and ageing CPU.
 
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Squuiid said:
Hi, I can confirm all that Draeconis stated is correct! I've also dedicated one of my cMPs to run Windows 10 and use a GTX 1080 FE with the same cable adapter.
No issues other than the additional phantom screen in device manager/display settings, as mentioned by Draeconis, which is somewhat annoying.
Performance is awesome despite the lower PCIe bandwidth and ageing CPU.
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that's cool but have you tried that refit solution? It can enable pcie 2.0 speed with refit as stated by the author.
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,13541.0.html
 
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Norbert Mikołajczyk said:
that's cool but have you tried that refit solution? It can enable pcie 2.0 speed with refit as stated by the author.
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,13541.0.html
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Doing that in rEFIt would require boot screens, which the 1080 doesn't provide to a Mac.

There is a fork of rEFInd that provides boot screens for GOP-compatible cards in Mac Pro, so that should work with a 1080. In fact, rEFIt is very old and no longer maintained--I wonder why that guy isn't using rEFInd.
 
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ActionableMango said:
Doing that in rEFIt would require boot screens, which the 1080 doesn't provide to a Mac.

There is a fork of rEFInd that provides boot screens for GOP-compatible cards in Mac Pro, so that should work with a 1080. In fact, rEFIt is very old and no longer maintained--I wonder why that guy isn't using rEFInd.
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Ok, I checked and refind has the same command to accomplish this.
I'm still wondering if it works :) (i have only a flashed gtx 680)
 
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