{"id":23905,"date":"2019-01-09T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23905"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:08:05","slug":"no-nvidia-drivers-for-mojave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/no-nvidia-drivers-for-mojave\/","title":{"rendered":"No NVIDIA Drivers for Mojave"},"content":{"rendered":"

NVIDIA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Developers using Macs with NVIDIA graphics cards are reporting that after upgrading from 10.13 to 10.14 (Mojave) they are experiencing rendering regressions and slow performance.<\/p>\n

Apple fully controls drivers for Mac OS. Unfortunately, NVIDIA currently cannot release a driver unless it is approved by Apple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Marco Chiappetta<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>, MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n

And when Apple pushed macOS 10.14 out the door, it appears suspended support for some discrete NVIDIA GPUs. According to Apple’s website<\/a>, only two aging “Mac Edition” discrete NVIDIA GPUs, the Quadro K5000 and GeForce GTX 680, are officially supported. Pre-Mojave though, many users had turned to newer, more powerful NVIDIA discrete GPUs based on the company’s Pascal architecture for workloads that can benefit from NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel computing platform and other proprietary development tools.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In the post, Diamond tags Jarred Land, a producer that also happens to be the president of RED Digital Cinema, who himself is an NVIDIA user. In fact, Land has a post on his wall showing a GeForce RTX Titan decoding 8K video in real-time at 23.98 frames per second, out to a Sharp 8K UHD TV. “Not allowing NVIDIA to put out drivers for OSX 10.14 hurts my business. We depend on NVIDIA drivers to keep our Macs flying through apps like Creative Cloud, Resolve and RED Workflows. We NEED these drivers to keep our pipelines from impacting our clients.”, said Jason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Colin Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

I don’t really like Nvidia. But I’m tried of Apple making life difficult for GPU makers. eGPU was a great step. But now Apple is now strangling adopting by restricting GPU drivers. Apple should allow Nvidia to release their Mojave drivers, and ideally make the driver layer public<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Removed in macOS 10.14 Mojave<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2019-01-11): Isaiah Carew<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

i gave up hope and gave my very nice 5K capable Nvidia 1080 card to my kids’ VR PC.<\/p>\n

it’s tough to invest in a platform where the maintainer’s capricious decisions often cost you a thousand bucks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2019-03-11): See also: Accidental Tech Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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