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Apple Seeds Build 12E30 of OS X Beta 10.8.4 to Developers

thomaskc said:
GPU Driver Version: 8.12.39 310.20.00a11

310.20.xxx so very close to the first build of 10.8.4 very much as expected.

The graphics driver version won't really change until 10.8.5 or 10.9 and it was the same thing with 10.8.2 and 10.8.3 so there you go.
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Could you teach me how to check the graphic driver version? I'm still new to OS X.
 
petsounds said:
Why is that every build of 10.8.x requests wi-fi testing? Do any of you still have wi-fi issues? Why are their drivers in such bad shape that they need constant improvement?

Let me guess, 10.8.4 will still not fix the mdworker bugs.
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New Gigabit WiFi chipset from Broadcom. New graphics families from both AMD and NVidia.
 
unlogic said:
Could you teach me how to check the graphic driver version? I'm still new to OS X.
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Easiest way I have found is to go to "system preferences/CUDA" and there it will list your CUDA version but also your Nvidia driver version below.

If you do not have cuda installed (you should) just google "nvidia CUDA mac" and you should find the latest ver 5 easily.
 
MrNomNoms said:
If you go into 'System Information' and then click on 'Extensions' - scroll down to GeForce and click on it. On 10.8.3 the 'GetInfoString' is:

GeForce 8.10.44 304.10.65f03
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thomaskc said:
Easiest way I have found is to go to "system preferences/CUDA" and there it will list your CUDA version but also your Nvidia driver version below.

If you do not have cuda installed (you should) just google "nvidia CUDA mac" and you should find the latest ver 5 easily.
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Thanks! :apple:
I wonder installing CUDA will improve OpenGL performance (in games)?
FYI I don't have any applications that use CUDA.
 
I wonder if it'll be this update or the next one that includes the new HD4000 drivers that bring ~10% better performance and OpenCL 1.2 support. I'm sure every bit will help those with Retina screens.
 
unlogic said:
Thanks! :apple:
I wonder installing CUDA will improve OpenGL performance (in games)?
FYI I don't have any applications that use CUDA.
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No Cuda does not affect your games. Cuda is used for applications like After Effects and Premiere that uses cuda to accelerate certain actions.
 
unlogic said:
Thanks! :apple:
I wonder installing CUDA will improve OpenGL performance (in games)?
FYI I don't have any applications that use CUDA.
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Nope, won't help OpenGL performance as Apple provide the OpenGL stack and the drivers hook into the OpenGL stack in very much the same way where Microsoft provides the DirectX stack and vendors provide the driver - the benefit at least in theory is consistent delivery of OpenGL rather than patchy delivery based on each vendor delivering their own custom OpenGL library. With that being said the benefit with Apple doing it means that hardware that can use OpenGL 3.2 is supported that nVidia have neglected - nVidia 9400 being the best example of hardware able to support newer OpenGL but nVidia not providing support for it. As for CUDA, it is of only any benefit if the specific application takes advantage of it - hopefully as OpenCL becomes more ubiquitous that hopefully people will move away from proprietary solutions such as CUDA.
 
Mr. Wonderful said:
I wonder if it'll be this update or the next one that includes the new HD4000 drivers that bring ~10% better performance and OpenCL 1.2 support. I'm sure every bit will help those with Retina screens.
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HD4000 already has OpenCL 1.2 support:

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koen said:
Did you tell Apple about it?
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Yes, ever since 10.8.0. Bug reports have been filed, yet no improvement. The thread I linked to dates back to September 2012. The problem appears to be related to setups that use dual NVIDIA GT 120 video cards. It's annoying because it is the card that shipped with the Mac Pro.
 
Sound214 said:
No problem! Why'd you ask, though?
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Still some minor weirdness in Disk Utility build 444 in 10.8.3 when setting up a new Fusion Drive on an older mini, where two (identical) HDs show up when booting up with the option key. Not a big deal, either HD boots correctly, but it doesn't happen with the native Fusion drive equipped Macs.

Example (one of many): https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/17107398/
 
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TheTissot11 said:
Does it mean that only on rMBP, HD 4000 is not counted as OpenCL/GL enabled device? I have rMBP and I can confirm that OpenGL Extension Viewer 4.0 doesn't show Intel HD4000 device in the list....
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No, OpenCL is not supported on the 2012 mac mini either on 10.8.3.
 
krogalon said:
No, OpenCL is not supported on the 2012 mac mini either on 10.8.3.
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Any thought, what is the reason? Besides I find it suspicious the claim of MrNomNom as Intel has last week released drivers for HD4000 to support OpenCL 1.2. Then how could HD4000 in the previous post seems to have OpenCL support in December 2012? I think Intel had released new drivers for HD4000 in Sept. 2012, but then it was only supporting OpenCL 1.1...
 
Warning

Do not install this beta if you run Adobe's CS6... Premiere Pro causes a kernel panic. :(
 
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