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No NVIDIA, so no CUDA. (Of course, one can buy a card, but that was already possible with USB-C and an eGPU enclosure.) Is there a particular reason they stopp
by danieldk 7y ago
No NVIDIA, so no CUDA. (Of course, one can buy a card, but that was already possible with USB-C and an eGPU enclosure.)
Is there a particular reason they stopped shipping Macs with NVIDIA?
- _bxg1 7y agoI dunno, but the PCI slots will make it much easier to add your own
- unicornfinder 7y agoProblem is there's no Mac drivers for the latest Nvidia GPUs. Bit of a problem that.
- empyrical 7y agoI am hoping that now that there's a Mac with proper PCIe slots it might make more business sense for nVidia to make drivers for macOS. Previously, there were Thunderbolt eGPUs which could allow using nVidia GPUs with (non-Hackintoshed) macOS but it may not have brought in enough sales to justify the cost of developing.
- _bxg1 7y agoDidn't realize that.
- berbec 7y agoBut are their drivers?
- gdubs 7y agoApple has been pushing Metal for some time now, and I think the reasoning is that Apple historically likes maintaining a tight coupling between proprietary hardware and their software. CUDA has been around a long time, but Metal does provide a lot in terms of general purpose GPU work, performance shaders for machine learning applications, etc.
- panpanna 7y agoYeah, but without a server ecosystem I don't see Metal getting that big in ML and similar applications.
- stuntkite 7y agoI've been working in a field that specifically requires CUDA for a few years now. I miss OSX with an Nvidia GPU so much. I'm just baffled by the dropping of support for the drivers. I would totally buy this computer... but as is I'm stuck using a System 76.
- dmix 7y agoApple dropped support for Nvidia CUDA card drivers? Do you mean Apple working on this support directly, instead of just Nvidia?