Hi Guys,
With still no official announcement from Nvidia on when we might see an updated Mojave WebDriver for their GPU's I have finally given up on my life time support of Team Green (Nvidia) and jumped to Team Red (AMD)
I've just got hold of a Sapphire Vega 64 Liquid Cooled GPU to replace the GTX 980 Ti in my DeskTop video editing system. Installation was a breeze ... I simply ran the Nvidia WebDriver uninstaller from the Nvidia Driver Manager, once it was finished I shutdown the system, removed the GTX 980Ti and installed the Vega 64.
Upon power up the Vega 64 LC was found and initialised without any additional intervention, although I should point out that I already had Lilu + WhatEverGreen installed and the IGPU configured with a headless PlatformID.
As recommended by
@pastrychef I ran the VGtab64 utility and selected the stock Vega 64 Liquid Cooled power profile and installed the generated kext, GPU clock speeds peek at 1750Mhz, memory clock @ 945Mhz, GPU temp tops out at 50 degs C when running the Haven benchmark being a liquid cooled card runs super quiet and the rad fan never goes above 1350 RPM.
The difference to the smoothness of the MacOS user interface was apparent straight away which confirmed my suspicions about how badly optimised the Open GL/CL Nvidia MacOS WebDrivers are , GPU benchmarks with the Vega 64 where about 40% up on the GTX 980 Ti.
Render times for the FCP-X Bruce Test where over 100% quicker (980 Ti = ~40 secs, Vega 64 = ~19 secs)
So finally I was able to to update the system to Mojave ... I simply downloaded and ran the Mojave installer/updater via the App Store and after 30 mins MacOS Mojave 10.14.1 was running as sweet as you like.
It's a real shame that Nvidia have chosen to treat their loyal customers this way, the lack of any official information on the current state of Mojave/Metal 2 WebDrivers is totally unacceptable .. even if Apple is in-some part involved.
I agree with everyone that Nvidia GPU's are faster and more power efficient than AMD but this latest news blackout by Nvidia has made me realise that they don't actually care about their customers they just care about the $$$. Even if MacOS represents a very small sector of their overall market share they should not treat us the way they have.
Moving on now ....
Cheers
Jay