Using an RTX 2080 with macOS 10.12.6 - will it work?

[zedex]

I would be tremendously grateful to anyone that can tell me categorically that a new RTX series card WILL DEFINITELY WORK on the final macOS Sierra (10.12) build..?

IN SHORT:
I WANT TO.. buy a Turing GPU for 'boot screen' glory.

BUT I CANNOT.. push through to newer OS releases due to expensive legacy software investments and massive SoftRAID HDD arrays.

There's boatloads of discussion on RTX compatibility in High Sierra but precious little mentioned about when the compatibility kicks in - not even MACVIDCARDS has a mention of it it their driver tables (maybe it works on even earlier OSX releases...??)
Please help!

 

[tsialex]

I would be tremendously grateful to anyone that can tell me categorically that a new RTX series card WILL DEFINITELY WORK on the final macOS Sierra (10.12) build..?

IN SHORT:
I WANT TO.. buy a Turing GPU for 'boot screen' glory.

BUT I CANNOT.. push through to newer OS releases due to expensive legacy software investments and massive SoftRAID HDD arrays.

There's boatloads of discussion on RTX compatibility in High Sierra but precious little mentioned about when the compatibility kicks in - not even MACVIDCARDS has a mention of it it their driver tables (maybe it works on even earlier OSX releases...??)
Please help!

For now, there isn't driver support for Turing cards, not for High Sierra and not for Mojave. Any RTX card only works unaccelerated, via default EFI drivers, and it's totally unusable for anything else than showing the screen.

Put your idea to sleep until drivers are released.

 

[zedex]

OK - I thought it was just nvidia drivers for MOJAVE everyone has been talking about. But it's also 'no Turing support' in general that is a problem..

Good advice. I'll put it to bed for now.

 

[Asgorath]

Rule of thumb: If/when NVIDIA releases a driver for a new GPU architecture like Turing, it will be for the most recent OS only. In this case, that means Mojave or later. They will never, ever, ever enable new GPU architectures on older legacy OSes, which includes 10.12 and 10.13.

 

[bsbeamer]

Believe that is exactly why VOLTA drivers were released for High Sierra when they were with 387.10.10.15.15.108. At least VOLTA and earlier are supported on High Sierra in some fashion. We'll see what happens with Mojave drivers if/when they are ever released. Regardless, would not expect Turing support in the initial release.