{"id":27347,"date":"2019-11-25T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T17:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27347"},"modified":"2020-11-11T20:03:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:03:36","slug":"nvidia-drops-cuda-support-for-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/25\/nvidia-drops-cuda-support-for-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA Drops CUDA Support for macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-and-nvidia-are-over-1840015246\">Alex Cranz<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21618774\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-and-nvidia-are-over-1840015246\"><p>The last vestiges of Nvidia and Apple&rsquo;s long-term relationship are ending shortly. On Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.nvidia.com\/cuda\/cuda-toolkit-release-notes\/index.html#title-new-features\">Nvidia published the release notes<\/a> for the next update of its CUDA platform and noted that &ldquo;CUDA 10.2 (Toolkit and NVIDIA driver) is the last release to support macOS for developing and running CUDA applications.&rdquo; That means all future versions of CUDA will lack support for Apple devices, which could leave a decent share of the pro community, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/hackintosh\/comments\/e0el4w\/nvidia_officially_drops_macos_support_for_cuda\/\">hackintosh community<\/a>, without support for the most popular discrete GPUs being made at the moment.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>But despite the reliance on AMD hardware Apple continued to support Nvidia GPUs. If you wanted to cram a Nvidia card into your older Mac Pro or rely on it for you hackintosh than Apple and Nvidia had you covered. Until last year when <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18669553\">Apple quietly stopped support CUDA with the release of macOS 10.14 Mojave<\/a>. That forced apps that relied on CUDA for hardware acceleration, like Adobe&rsquo;s suite of software, to <a href=\"https:\/\/theblog.adobe.com\/important-information-on-gpu-acceleration-with-cuda-and-apple-metal\/\">issue warnings and reminders to customers<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/mac-pro-2019\/\">Mac Pro 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/no-nvidia-drivers-for-mojave\/\">No NVIDIA Drivers for Mojave<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/video-pros-moving-from-mac-to-windows-for-high-end-gpus\/\">Video Pros Moving From Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Cranz (Hacker News): The last vestiges of Nvidia and Apple&rsquo;s long-term relationship are ending shortly. On Monday Nvidia published the release notes for the next update of its CUDA platform and noted that &ldquo;CUDA 10.2 (Toolkit and NVIDIA driver) is the last release to support macOS for developing and running CUDA applications.&rdquo; That means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-11-25T17:59:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"26edea28-d42f-4489-93f2-4fc2e2f36011","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-11-12T01:03:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJu3qKNQvRImT8k_C4vNgEQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,30,1666,1894],"class_list":["post-27347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-nvidia"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30662,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27347\/revisions\/30662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}