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Mojave NVIDIA Drivers

northernmunky said:
Anyone else waiting extremely patiently for NVIDIA drivers for Mojave?

Anyone have any news because I cant find anything anywhere?
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I would advise to exit the mac platform if you are dependent on nvidia.

Nvidia=closed and proprietary. Apple does not invest resources in developing applications that can't be migrated over to their ipad, iphone and soon to come non intel cpu mac.

Nvidia has no incentive to develop drivers because no one is able to use their products on the mac side as they are not being sold.

I have the 2012 macbook with gtx 650 and cuda does not work with the latest osx driver. I have to use the web driver which is buggy as hell resulting in many kernel panics.

I moved to windows from my cheese grater 5,1 a year ago and have not looked back ever since.

Soon I will ditch the macbook as well.

my 2 cents!
K.
 
Helloha said:
I would advise to exit the mac platform if you are dependent on nvidia.

Nvidia=closed and proprietary. Apple does not invest resources in developing applications that can't be migrated over to their ipad, iphone and soon to come non intel cpu mac.

Nvidia has no incentive to develop drivers because no one is able to use their products on the mac side as they are not being sold.

I have the 2012 macbook with gtx 650 and cuda does not work with the latest osx driver. I have to use the web driver which is buggy as hell resulting in many kernel panics.

I moved to windows from my cheese grater 5,1 a year ago and have not looked back ever since.

Soon I will ditch the macbook as well.

my 2 cents!
K.
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For how long would you say that Nvidia has been closed and proprietary, as you put it?

I ask because Apple certainly has offered nvidia GPUs in their machines for quite some decades now. Apple seems to have bounced back and forth between AMD and nvidia as their main GPU supplier. Nvidia being closed and proprietary hasn't kept Apple from working with them in the past.

I suggest that something else is at work, and something between them has changed.
 
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Irishman said:
For how long would you say that Nvidia has been closed and proprietary, as you put it?

I ask because Apple certainly has offered nvidia GPUs in their machines for quite some decades now. Apple seems to have bounced back and forth between AMD and nvidia as their main GPU supplier. Nvidia being closed and proprietary hasn't kept Apple from working with them in the past.

I suggest that something else is at work, and something between them has changed.
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Nvidia has always been closed.

Apple developed the metal framework so they don't need Nvidia anymore. The have not released an Nvidia GPU product since the 2013 MacBook I believe.
 
Helloha said:
Nvidia has always been closed.

Apple developed the metal framework so they don't need Nvidia anymore. The have not released an Nvidia GPU product since the 2013 MacBook I believe.
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And you'd be incorrect-but we can't all be 100% right, 100% of the time. 2013 iMac's and 2014 Macbook Pro's had 7XX series models.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i7-3.5-27-inch-aluminum-late-2013-specs.html

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/...l-graphics-mid-2014-retina-display-specs.html

FYI-Metal works fine on their GPU's, it's the lack of any other acceleration in-addition natively that's a bummer in Mojave.
 
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If you like experimental kernel panics with nvidia, you can stay on the mac platform. But I thought it was a good idea to get out of their eco system and develop workflows using other tools that don't depend on their closed platform.

I switched to a windows workstation, got an android phone without google services, I use nextcloud with my own server...

Once pro applications like Davinci resolve mature one more generation I will likely add a linux station as well to lessen my dependance on Adobe.

Much like apple does not want to invest in closed technology themselves, I will never invest in closed platforms again such as icloud, imessage, etc...

Also I still keep a macbook pro around just for email because MS outlook is complete madness....
 
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jbarley said:
I've been checking out this script, it locates, downloads, patches and installs the best available Nvdia driver for your system.
So far It's working pretty good on my MacPro running Mojave 10.14.2

https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update

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I used this method to install the drivers on Mojave 10.14.5 NVIDIA Web Driver: 387.10.10.10.40.128 now I want to install Cuda what version is compatible with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4 GB graphics card.
 
The most important thing is are CUDA Applications wrong with this patch.

vray bench or octane bench...
 
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