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Most NVidia cards now work on the mac
NVidia released a new driver today with broad support for their non-mac cards on the mac.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1330964
I’ve tested a GTX 590 standard PC version on a Mac Pro 4,1… works fine. Cuda-Z shows two 590 GPUs in addition to my GT120. Performances is about on par with my EFIed 480, except I now have two gpus detected by DaVinci.
Theoretically doubling performance although Resolve gives me an “Unsupported Configuration” warning and I’m not getting anything higher than 41fps in stereo 1080 (on par with my GTX480).
It’s also crashing when I add noise reduction. I suspect this may be a cuda driver issue.
Hopefully BMD adds broad support for the NVidia line. The only issues now seem to be the boot portion, but since we aren’t using our GPUs for display this is a great solution for Resolve.
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I wonder if this could be related?:
Good to see, either way.
KC
Prehistoric Digital
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UPDATE: Further testing suggests that the power supply may be the issue causing a crash when noise reduction is enabled. It seems the 590 power manages so that the second GPU is in a low power state until it has to kick in, at which point the MacPro power supply fails. Will try a GTX 580 which has much lower power requirement. Will report back.
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Hi Juan,
[Juan Salvo] “I’ve tested a GTX 590 standard PC version on a Mac Pro 4,1… works fine… Performances is about on par with my EFIed 480,”
wow – great news!
But how do you feed the 480 with enough power? External power supply?
Wich OSX do you run? I guess it’s only possible with Lion?
Thanks & regards
Knut
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480 runs fine on internal power with gt120 drawing power off bus. 590 runs fine until it kicks on the second GPU chip. I hope the 580 is able to run off internal power.
OS must be lion and the drivers only work on Mac pro 3,1 and up.
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hi Juan,
i’m working home under hackintosh and outside with real macpro…so since 2 years i followed a lot that kind of thread:
Of course it’s good news from nvidia but there is a lot of problems.
The 2 days old driver ( for lion) have been benchmarked by users and they have like 20% lost of framerate. Yes, all card should work but All those new cards have very high power consumption! And you do not have enough power on real mac…
“Graphic power management” kext
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“cpu power management” kextare still in your system to limitate your performance!
We killed those kexts on hackintosh but we have other components, and other cooling system!
Up to you to do the same on real mac but it’s at your own risk.All those new NVidia cards works at 90°C , my GTX285 is at 60°…
Power consumption are the double in full mode…That’s why you had crash with denoisingSo unless you put new cooling system and new power in your mac, be carefull or go with Cubix extender!
regards
Bernard
” The Artist from France ” 😉
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The 590/580 are obviously going to max out and have issues on a real mac pro without some hardware upgrades. However, anyone have any experience with 570, in a macpro?
Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
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I suspect the 580 with 50% less power consumption than the 590 should be fine. Will test soon enough.
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RE: the 480:
I have a 12 core Mac Pro 5,1 running 10.6.8.
Are you saying that this will only work if running Lion?
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hi juan ,
did you try ?
so so the 580 is ok inside the macro (power wise)?thanks
g
Davinci Resolve Control Surface
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Yep 580 working. But only the non-classified edition,
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