[SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080/1070

[LastChance]

I hope this works- I just emailed NVIDIA PR:

Big fan of NVIDIA GeForce cards- I run a site called tonymacx86.com which specializes in helping people build computers and install macOS on generic PC hardware. I was hoping to get in contact with someone at NVIDIA regarding macOS Web Drivers.

There is huge pent up demand in our community for your new lineup of cards, the Pascal GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080. Unfortunately there is no Pascal driver included in your Web Driver package, so we are forced to recommend the older 9xx series to new builders. We think if you were to add Pascal support it would help NVIDIA’s manufacturing partners to sell a lot of graphics cards.

If you have any information, or if you can forward this email to the proper channel I’d be very appreciative.

Sincerely,

-tonymacx86
http://www.tonymacx86.com

That (and everything else) was worth a donation to the site.

 

[richardpsic]

I hope this works- I just emailed NVIDIA PR:

Big fan of NVIDIA GeForce cards- I run a site called tonymacx86.com which specializes in helping people build computers and install macOS on generic PC hardware. I was hoping to get in contact with someone at NVIDIA regarding macOS Web Drivers.

There is huge pent up demand in our community for your new lineup of cards, the Pascal GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080. Unfortunately there is no Pascal driver included in your Web Driver package, so we are forced to recommend the older 9xx series to new builders. We think if you were to add Pascal support it would help NVIDIA’s manufacturing partners to sell a lot of graphics cards.

If you have any information, or if you can forward this email to the proper channel I’d be very appreciative.

Sincerely,

-tonymacx86
http://www.tonymacx86.com

I thought of doing this myself but I'm just a simple consumer. I'm glad somebody like you, that runs this huge site, has got in touch with nVidia PR.

I'm literally just waiting for support for Mac OS to order a 1080, the money is just sitting there in my bank account.

Thank you for this.

 

[yanvn]

I'm gonna give up and fly back to 980ti -_-

 

[MadMac1969]

The RX480 is hardly as powerful as a good 970. The 970 is cheaper and you can buy 2 and SLI them up in Windows.

 

[kaiyes]

The RX480 is hardly as powerful as a good 970. The 970 is cheaper and you can buy 2 and SLI them up in Windows.

true. But for fcpx openCl matters

 

[HizzingCreeper]

The RX480 is hardly as powerful as a good 970. The 970 is cheaper and you can buy 2 and SLI them up in Windows.

True, but if you're using Final Cut Pro X, the 970 is going to be slower than the oldest AMD card that support MacOS (It's true)
because, FCPX uses OpenCL (AMD) rather than CUDA (Nvidia). Also about your opinion "The 970 is cheaper and you can buy 2 and SLI them up in Windows", first, ever heard of Crossfire? second, you can't setup SLI in windows, that you CAN ONLY do with AMD cards, for SLI, you need an SLI bridge, and third, yes the 970 is cheaper but if you're doing any kind of video editing on MacOS, you might as well go with team red.
See https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/amd-or-nvidia-for-final-cut-pro-x.134155/ for more details

 

[MadMac1969]

I'm not giving up on Nvidia, it still offers the best 3D and overall features in Windows, and in the few 3D games I own on MacOS. Yes I know about Crossfire, but the 480 is just too shitty for its price. I don't use Final Cut Pro, so it doesn't matter for me. I'll wait for next round of AMD cards, which will most likely be supported OOB from MacOS, if they will be worthy, I will upgrade, otherwise I'll stay with my dual 970 for another round. All I have runs more than smoothly and I am not using 4K nor I need it.

 

[emjay96]

True, but if you're using Final Cut Pro X, the 970 is going to be slower than the oldest AMD card that support MacOS (It's true)
because, FCPX uses OpenCL (AMD) rather than CUDA (Nvidia). Also about your opinion "The 970 is cheaper and you can buy 2 and SLI them up in Windows", first, ever heard of Crossfire? second, you can't setup SLI in windows, that you CAN ONLY do with AMD cards, for SLI, you need an SLI bridge, and third, yes the 970 is cheaper but if you're doing any kind of video editing on MacOS, you might as well go with team red.
See https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/amd-or-nvidia-for-final-cut-pro-x.134155/ for more details

The difference in performance between AMD cards and Nvidia cards in FCPX seems to have definitely closed over the last year or so. Perhaps it's simply brute force but based on Bruce X the difference seems to have significantly closed and the Nvidia Web drivers seems to have increased performance. I used to get mid 50 seconds for my 970 but since sometime in El Cap those numbers have dropped to the low 20s.

The link you provided is over two years old. I'd imagine there are more recent comparisons between Red and Green on the site which might be more illuminating.

The SLI bridge is included in the box for Nvidia cards so that doesn't really seem like a detractor.

FCPX also isn't the only NLE for OS X.

 

[HizzingCreeper]

I'm not giving up on Nvidia, it still offers the best 3D and overall features in Windows, and in the few 3D games I own on MacOS. Yes I know about Crossfire, but the 480 is just too shitty for its price. I don't use Final Cut Pro, so it doesn't matter for me. I'll wait for next round of AMD cards, which will most likely be supported OOB from MacOS, if they will be worthy, I will upgrade, otherwise I'll stay with my dual 970 for another round. All I have runs more than smoothly and I am not using 4K nor I need it.

OK then what about...(looks up price for RX 480) OMG, $350 CAD FOR A GPU!!!!! Alright, I can see where you are coming from, it's just to bad that Pascal GPU's aren't supported on MacOS yet.
Oh well, there's always a GTX 970 for MacOS and 2 Titan XP's on Windows/Linux

The difference in performance between AMD cards and Nvidia cards in FCPX seems to have definitely closed over the last year or so. Perhaps it's simply brute force but based on Bruce X the difference seems to have significantly closed and the Nvidia Web drivers seems to have increased performance. I used to get mid 50 seconds for my 970 but since sometime in El Cap those numbers have dropped to the low 20s.

The link you provided is over two years old. I'd imagine there are more recent comparisons between Red and Green on the site which might be more illuminating.

The SLI bridge is included in the box for Nvidia cards so that doesn't really seem like a detractor.

FCPX also isn't the only NLE for OS X.

Alright true but for the "FCPX also isn't the only NLE for OS X." thing, I know, and I know Adobe Premiere and IMovie exist, but according to this video

by HardwareCanucks, FCPX was faster, stable and more reliable than Adobe premiere.
However, if you are right in the fact that Apple made FCPX optimized for both AMD and Nvidia GPU's, it will make my life like, 10 times easier for my future build.

UPDATE: After checking out this video by Crowdfunding tech and, by looking in the comments,

I can safety say that using a Nvidia card for FCPX is going to be slower than a Macbook Pro. So, I still might get a RX 480 or a RX 280x just for FCPX because, I don't wanna use Adobe premiere or Sony Vegas.

 

[schwadorf]

I'd rather use the IGPU than buy an AMD card just for FCPX, if only I could get the damn Intel Quick Sync working.

One thing I noticed on my previous build (w/ i7-2600k and GTX 780) is that even though it felt snappier while editing, it was almost 5-6 times slower than my Late 2013 rMBP when it comes to exporting the final video because the rMBP could fully utilize Intel's Quick Sync technology.