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mljubek,
Thanks for the update ... I was not aware of that, so thanks for brining it to my attention.
All the more reason for Nvidia users to stick with High Sierra for the foreseeable future.
I must admit that I am a little surprised by this, I would have thought that Nvidia would have at least made an effort to release a working cuda driver for the genuine Mac's that have Nvidia Fermi and Kepler GPU's that are supported by Mojave.
It raises an important question though .... if Apples proprietary Metal 2 API proves to be more efficient and better optimised for managing compute processes on GPU's I wonder if Cuda has any future at all on MacOS ? .... If companies like Adobe decide to migrate to using Metal 2 then Nvidia will be put in a difficult position with really only two possible outcomes ...
1, Nvidia release an all new, fully optimised Metal 2 web driver unlocking the full potential of Nvidia products on MacOS, this is the outcome that we all want, however such a project would require Nvidia to work closely with Apple, something that may be difficult given that the relationship between the two companies has not been great in recent years. If they are planning on going this route it's likely that the project could take a Year or so ...
2. Since a Metal 2 driver will only be of use on MacOS it will share no commonality with any of their other OS drivers, meaning that they would have to dedicate resources to software development and support so they may choose to abandon Nvidia support for MacOS Mojave and future macOS releases and leave the sector to AMD which is Apples favoured GPU solution. MacOS accounts for less than 5% of Nvidia sales so looking at it from a purely business perspective it would not make a lot of sense.
Hopefully Nvidia will release an official statement on what they intend to do in the near future, that way we can make a decision as to stick with team green or jump ship to team red.
Cheers
Jay
And I was blaming Nvidia...
