[SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080/1070

[grjbb]

http://gph.is/2btYN1b

 

[onmybikedrunk]

Well, I give up.

 

[hemon]

Well, I give up.

Me too: I will buy the AMD Vega, which is faster than the 1070, when it comes.

 

[oger]

Me too: I will buy the AMD Vega, which is faster than the 1070, when it comes.

But will it be supported?

 

[onmybikedrunk]

I just messaged some OS X Driver Engineers at Nvidia. Who knows? Maybe one will respond and let us know what is going on.

 

[XQC]

At this point it's very clear to me that Nvidia (probably forced by Apple) simply doesn't want to release Pascal drivers.
Fingers crossed that AMD Vega cards will be compatible with Hackintoshs.

 

[Fl0r!an]

Peeking over into the AMD threads gives a good impression on what kind of bugs we'll see with Vega (if it ever gets supported). Hopefully we'll be able figure some issues out soon.

I'm slightly concerned about the TDP though, Vega 10 surely won't fit into the iMac, and we all don't know if the Mac Pro will ever get updated again. High TDP cards have a history of receiving bad drivers (or no drivers at all), as Apple can't use them anyway. We'll see...

 

[dungeonseeker]

That's it, I'm officially taking a sabbatical from Hackintoshing and moving over to Windows full time.

I didn't want to do that but I have no real choice. Linux is to buggy under Skylake short of compiling my own build around the 4.8 Kernel (I've considered it) plus Nouveau has some serious issues with Pascal making initial install a pain in the ass. I even looked into Debian 9 early release which comes with Kernel 4.8 however its not possible to install the Nvidia GPU drivers on it without it taking a dump which leaves me with the Nouveau issues I mentioned earlier plus if my suspicions are correct Nvidias drivers simply don't support Kernel 4.8 yet anyway so it appears I cannot get a stable Linux install until Nvidia add support for 4.8 into the drivers. In case anybody is interested, on K4.8 the Nvidia drivers install fine but at the end it tries to update initramfs then spews out errors about failed to compile something something kernel 4.8 then it fails the update and if I reboot my system it just black screens, I can't even access a terminal to recover it.

macOS works perfectly with Skylake but has no Pascal support.

At this point Windows is the only OS that will work on my PC without issue, its a shame but hey, it works at least.

I'm gonna keep my macOS install on my HDD (I actually clean installed it recently) and check in every once in a while just to make sure but I'm no longer checking this thread every day as I'm now fairly confident Nvidia are never going to add Pascal support to Sierra.

Its been a blast guys, good luck and have fun. At least I can repurpose my 8GB flash drive for something other than macOS recovery now, every cloud has a silver lining

 

[pgriss]

Linux is to buggy under Skylake short of compiling my own build around the 4.8 Kernel

Could you please elaborate on this? I installed Ubuntu 16.04, which currently means 4.4 Kernel, on my Skylake based computer without any issues (that I am aware of...).

 

[asiga]

At this point it's very clear to me that Nvidia (probably forced by Apple) simply doesn't want to release Pascal drivers.

I'm beginning to consider the opposite, that it is NVIDIA who might be trying to stress Apple, because it looks like there're no future Macs with NVIDIA GPUs. Something like "there won't be NVIDIA-based Macs in the near future, so we also stop supporting our new GPUs, so that Apple realizes that there're a lot of Mac users who prefer NVIDIA".