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Which means if Apple allows them to use non-metal drivers. Historically, there’s little reason to think Apple would waiver (wish they would) and the value for N
by jsgo 6y ago
Which means if Apple allows them to use non-metal drivers. Historically, there’s little reason to think Apple would waiver (wish they would) and the value for Nvidia to write their drivers using Metal is minimal.
I’m kind of curious though: what value do their web drivers have to them now that they couldn’t just release them as OSS and allow a determined group to rewrite them as Metal.
- bangonkeyboard 6y agoNo, you've misunderstood again. Nvidia's eGPU web drivers already supported Metal in High Sierra [0]. Apple refuses to sign their drivers for Mojave and up. Without Apple's signature, GPU drivers will not run on macOS, OSS or not. [0] https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2020_03/840568137_ScreenShot2020-03-14at3_08_33PM.png.4ea6c048cc4115cb20209c562b4167de.png https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/uploads/monthly_2020_03/84...
- jsgo 6y agoAh, that's interesting. I know there are some older Nvidia cards that do work on Mac, but most of the recent GTX/RTX/etc. ones don't. Are they similarly Metal (and just missing a signature)? Because whenever I was actually keeping up with this, the stalemate was over Nvidia not leveraging Metal.