The Mac drivers don't show up on the NVidia.com driver page. To 10.12.6 from 10.12.5, had to boot with 'Use NVIDIA Web Drivers' disabled (Clover).
As promised, Nvidia last night beta macOS drivers for its latest GeForce 10-series graphics cards, enabling macOS support for cards ranging from the GeForce GTX 1050 to the newly announced Nvidia Titan Xp. MacOS drivers for Nvidia's Pascal 10-series graphics cards will be of interest to those who build Hackintosh machines, use external GPUs, and those who own older Mac Pro machines that can be updated with newer GPUs.
Apple has not used Nvidia GPUs in its Macs for several years now, favoring AMD instead. Nvidia first said it for its latest line of graphics cards when it announced the launch of the Nvidia Titan Xp, which Nvidia says is the world's most powerful graphics card with 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gb/s, 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz, and 12 TFLOPS of processing power. Prior to the release of the drivers, Mac users were only able to use previous-generation Maxwell-based 9-series GPUs. The new macOS Pascal drivers can be from Nvidia. Now anybody with a $800 budget can build a hackintosh that runs circles around a $6000 mac pro in graphic intensive applications. Your comment made me curious, so I did some quick pricing, and minus extras like finishing off the cooling system and stuff like monitors and whatnot, probably the cheapest you could go and still 'run circles' around the $6000 Mac Pro is probably at least $1500. I mean, obviously waaaaay cheaper, and I assume you were just being hyperbolic with the $800 budget.
But I spent the time looking, so I thought I'd share. That said, I loved the tone of last week's press meet with Phil and Craig. 'We know the Mac Pro is a mess, we're sorry, we're going to fix it, please don't leave us.' :D doublepost=/doublepost Is this compatible with my 5k iMac, both on the Mac and Windows/boot camp? I could not find anything online to confirm. I know there are hoops to jump through getting eGPUs working with macOS, especially if you're going to be running TB2 with an iMac.
But if you're interested this place ('looks like a pretty good resource for getting started. Windows probably has better support, but I'm less familiar with eGPU efforts on that side of the coin. I can't wait to get home and update the driver on my Hackintosh. And for those who say you can't compare a home-made computer with a Mac Pro are right if you are needing fault-tolerant hardware.
But for $1500, you can definitely get a computer that will perform just as well as a $6000 machine. The main issue would be that the $1500 machine might have components break sooner, but if you don't have a mission critical process then it doesn't really matter. And since you are using commonly available parts, if it does fail, then it is fairly easy to replace the part. That being said, I love my cMP that is still going strong strong from 2010. My 2007 is a little long in the tooth, but is still in production.
I suspect the gamma issue may have something to do with how WoW interacts (or doesn't in some cases) with the windowserver and potentially some things they have had to do in order to get Metal to give good performance. To put it bluntly, as nice as Metal seems to be shaping up as, graphics are a total clusterfudge in OS X right now. I've noticed the gamma issue myself, as my in-game gamma is markedly lower than my desktop gamma despite setting WoW to use the desktop gamma. I want it using that gamma because I calibrated it specifically for use with my current TV to be precisely on the 2.2 curve. Unfortunately WoW is not honoring that setting and is in fact lowering gamma to approximately 2.4 levels instead. It's possible this is intentional to counter OS X's default gamma being 1.8.
But only the Mac team would know for sure. To update my 'gamma' issues, BfA removed doing a real fullscreen function due to issues with DirectX. What they are calling 'fullscreen' is, in fact, full screen windowed. In ANY kind of windowed mode, there never was any gamma adjustment.
It was looking dim for my continuing to play the game. HOWEVER, within the last week, a new beta got loaded that DOES HAVE some in-game controls, specifically a gamma, brightness AND contrast slider!
But, this is nVidia drivers thread. So I do have a legit question. They want me to install a 'security update' to my 10.12.6 installation. Ain't going to do that until I know there is an updated driver. However, it would be helpful to know what the OS build version is. So can anyone running 10.2.6 who did the update please post the resulting build version?
I'll be sure to check back when I can marry that with a nVidia deriver version when it becomes available. New in Release 378.05.05.25f09: Graphics driver updated for macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1408) Contains performance improvements and bug fixes for a wide range of applications. Includes NVIDIA Driver Manager preference pane. Includes BETA support for iMac and MacBook Pro systems with NVIDIA graphics Release Notes Archive: This driver update is for Mac Pro 5,1 (2010), Mac Pro 4,1 (2009) and Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) users. BETA support is for iMac 14,2 / 14,3 (2013), iMac 13,1 / 13,2 (2012) and MacBook Pro 11,3 (2013), MacBook Pro 10,1 (2012), and MacBook Pro 9,1 (2012) users. I should have been more clear. I'm fine now under 10.13.4, but I made the mistake and jumped the gun and had to wait for Nvidia to catch up.
Now, 10.13.5 is out and I don't know if Nvidia has drivers for it. As an aside, from Nvidia, it'd be nice is they actually had the proper drivers listed for the Mac OS. If you go to the site, I think the latest Mac drivers are under the GTX 6 series, iirc. When I look through the control panel, it shows I'm up to date for 10.13.4, but that doesn't help with 10.13.5 I apologize if the drivers are listed for the proper card under Mac OS X and I missed it.
NVidia driver updates are not specific JUST to the OS X version, but ALSO to any minor updates, like the security updates and other patchs. This is probably the issue you are running into. You can't go by just the OS X version, you need to look at the full version number. This is an old example, but it includes what I'm talking about.
Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 (15B42) You can't match just the 10.11.1, you have to match the 15B42 as well. In general this basically translates into 'Wait a few days before installing the update'. Unless something major has changed in the OS, they're usually pretty quick about getting the driver updates out.