For me it's too much of a coincidence that these two announcements are so close. For me its a double bonus, Pascal for the 5.1 and Nvidia in the 7.1!
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Open to Mac Community
Speaking of users, we’re also making the new TITAN Xp open to the Mac community with new Pascal drivers, coming this month. For the first time, this gives Mac users access to the immense horsepower delivered by our award-winning Pascal-powered GPUs.
Open to Mac Community
Speaking of users, we’re also making the new TITAN Xp open to the Mac community with new Pascal drivers, coming this month. For the first time, this gives Mac users access to the immense horsepower delivered by our award-winning Pascal-powered GPUs.
That's great news!
Question is, which OS will they support... just Sierra? Or will they go down a notch (El Capitan) or two (Yosemite)? Which would be great since I believe a lot of us are not on Sierra on our Mac Pros.
Question is, which OS will they support... just Sierra? Or will they go down a notch (El Capitan) or two (Yosemite)? Which would be great since I believe a lot of us are not on Sierra on our Mac Pros.
They've never back-ported drivers so far, so any pre-Sierra OS is very unlikely.
Glad to see the drivers finally coming!
They've never back-ported drivers so far, so any pre-Sierra OS is very unlikely.
Glad to see the drivers finally coming!
Yeah, I'd be shocked if it was for anything earlier than 10.12.
Will this driver work for all pascal cards or only the titan xp? The wording is alittle confusing. Please be for all pascal cards.
From the 9to5Mac Article:
"We have reached out to Nvidia for a statement about compatibility down the line with lesser 10-series cards, and I’m happy to report that Nvidia states that all Pascal-based GPUs will be Mac-enabled via upcoming drivers. This means that you will be able to use a GTX 1080, for instance, on a Mac system via an eGPU setup, or with a Hackintosh build. Exciting times, indeed."
https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/06/nvidia-titan-xp-beta-pascal-drivers-mac/
"We have reached out to Nvidia for a statement about compatibility down the line with lesser 10-series cards, and I’m happy to report that Nvidia states that all Pascal-based GPUs will be Mac-enabled via upcoming drivers. This means that you will be able to use a GTX 1080, for instance, on a Mac system via an eGPU setup, or with a Hackintosh build. Exciting times, indeed."
https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/06/nvidia-titan-xp-beta-pascal-drivers-mac/
Ok good to know;
What they're doing is pretty clever: basically they're getting a year's worth of free beta testing with us, and when the new Mac Pro Modular is released, they'll have working drivers from day one.
I am inclined to believe so. I don't think that they would develop Pascal drivers solely for 5+ year old cheesegraters and hackintoshers. So either they are getting their chips back into Apple, or they are at least keeping the drivers updated so they can be tested and considered by Apple.
Source? Or are you just making stuff up again? Or, in other words, how can you possibly know how Pascal will perform with the Metal API, which is much more efficient than OpenGL?
I can't wait for all the complaints about how a 1080 is no faster than a 980 (or 680) in CPU-limited OpenGL games when run in a cMP.
When you will people start doing your researches properly?
And this is DX11. Which for Nvidia is way better scenario than DX12.
You need really fast CPU to get everything out from Pascal GPUs, and for this example GTX 1080.
Edit. And for this matter, DX12:
Fury X as fast as GTX 1080, with 5930K.
You need fast Single threaded CPU to get everything out from GTX 1080.
On PC for directx, for high end gpu you will need a good cpu to take advantage of it. That was the problem with ryzen chips runing at 1080p. The gpu was waiting for the ryzen chip. I expect metal to be the same thing.
It will, says 9to5mac.com
And yes, pretty sure there is a correlation. A new round of negotiations for equipping the mNP certainly helps making nVidia much more cooperative..
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Oh wow, high-end GPUs are CPU limited more easily with slower CPUs, shocking information. If AMD actually had a high-end GPU, you'd see similar scaling. So yeah, sure, if your suggestion is "don't buy a 1080 with a super-low-end CPU" I'd absolutely agree with that. Note that I'd consider the cMP CPUs to be very slow by today's standards, which means you probably don't need/want a 1080 unless you have a high-end Hackintosh.
First of all, I do not know why you argue. Secondly, Fury X is not considered high End GPU, anymore? By who? Even if it competes with GTX 1080?
And yes, we see the same scaling, and regression with slower CPU with Fury X.
What I meant by that post: build hackintoshes. Using GTX 1080 in MP 5.1 is waste of money. Your money. The same thing will be effectively if you will flush that 499$ into toilet.
This is great news! I can't wait to get my GTX 1080 running on my hack. Don't let Koyoot fool you. Nvidia's 1000 series is generally faster than AMD's current offerings. Here are some actual mac benchmarks (although the gtx 1000 series results are extrapolated). Also keep in mind that the GTX 1080 Ti and Titan XP will be much faster than the cards in those charts.
If by "compete with" you mean "gets absolutely destroyed by", then sure.
http://techreport.com/review/31562/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-graphics-card-reviewed/7
http://techreport.com/review/31562/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-graphics-card-reviewed/8
http://techreport.com/review/31562/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-graphics-card-reviewed/9
and so on.
