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Anyone have any inside information on when there will be an Nvidia OSX driver for the GTX 1070/1080 'Pascal' based cards?

 

I've got a new, very pretty looking MSI GTX 1080 Gamer Edition all setup and ready in my eGPU box just waiting for the driver for 10.11.5 to come out...

 

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Might be a long wait - from the time of initial Maxwell release to supporting NVIDIA web drivers being released for OS X was about 6 months.

 

Hard to know when (and if) it will happen.

 

What do you think would be the best way to get Nvidia interested and engaged in releasing drivers for this?

 

I have tweeted at Nvidia directly here: https://twitter.com/s_mcleod/status/746027244846358528

 

Note: I'm not talking about supporting the configuration, just releasing a general driver, or developmental release / beta driver.

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What do you think would be the best way to get Nvidia interested and engaged in releasing drivers for this?

 

I have tweeted at Nvidia directly here: https://twitter.com/s_mcleod/status/746027244846358528

 

Note: I'm not talking about supporting the configuration, just releasing a general driver, or developmental release / beta driver.

Most likely won't happen. They will be focusing their few macOS resources to the new version, so the best you can hope for is support in a Sierra beta web driver release. Soonest would be a month or two from now. As stated before normally its 6 months.

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Would it in theory work under Windows if I was to install bootcamp?

Sorry I don't know the windows world well these days, do thunderbolt devices 'just work' like PCIe cards?

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Would it in theory work under Windows if I was to install bootcamp?

Sorry I don't know the windows world well these days, do thunderbolt devices 'just work' like PCIe cards?

 

a small amount of research will tell you yes, pascal works fine under bootcamp / windows.  

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If you buy a new GTX 1080 gaming edition is because you want to play under windows, I assume that.

 

Why not to buy a graphics card that work OOB under OS X ?

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