@antoniooniato Your okay brother. There area many Nvidia owners that are upset and disappointed. You are not alone in this.
We’ve waiting for long time. Please support it!
It’s clear you haven’t done your homework on the 9th gen CPUs…
- Most reviewers have found temps on the 9900K to be extremely high.
- 9th gen uses STIM. That means delidding is considerably more difficult now.
- Even delidded, thermal improvements have been fairly minor due to increased thickness of substrate.
- To truly get meaningful improvements in temps, lapping of the die appears to be necessary.
- All the current 9th gen CPUs have 95W TDP.
- The Mac Mini appears to only use 65W TDP CPUs.
Bottom line, there’s no way the new Mac Mini can provide sufficient cooling for the 9th gen CPUs.
First it was Apple’s fault for not signing drivers, when there were no drivers for them to sign. Now, you’re ranting on Tim Cook for lack of Nvidia drivers?!? At what point was Apple or Tim Cook ever responsible for releasing Nvidia web drivers???
Current state of affairs:
- It should also be quite obvious that Apple is not going to be using Nvidia GPUs on any of their devices any time in the near future.
- It’s anyone’s guess if/when Nvidia will release anymore web drivers.
- The last Macs that featured Nvidia GPUs are getting closer to EOL (in terms of support) with each passing day. When that day comes, Apple will very likely remove the last vestiges of Nvidia kexts from macOS.
- There were rumors that web drivers would be release two weeks after the release of Mojave. Well, we are past 4 weeks and nothing.
- macOS Mojave 10.14.0 has come and gone. Current version is now 10.14.1 and still no web drivers.
- No one from Nvidia is willing to comment on anything that has been discussed here.
It’s obvious that you love Nvidia cards more than the operating systems you work on. You’ve already stated that you will never use an AMD GPU, so your current options are (1) use IGPU if your machine has it or (2) switch operating systems.
It sucks having an expensive brick of a video card. I understand. I’ve been there. Instead of crying here, I took initiative and did something about it. I went and got something that works and was amazed at how much better the Vega makes macOS. I’m quite convinced that people who keep knocking AMD haven’t truly sat down to use a recent vintage AMD card in macOS. Everything is far smoother with my Vega 56 than it ever was with my GTX 1080.
Well I’m certainly glad I’ve stuck with High Sierra for the time being. Since jumping the gun on one of the Sierra OS updates before the updated web driver was available, I’ve been careful to check for updated web drivers before I update or upgrade the OS. I like my 1050Ti, particularly the performance I get for <75 watts, but if things don’t pan out with a Mojave driver in the next little while, I may just have to adjust my power consumption expectations and look at the RX570/580 or 590 when it drops.
I’ve been watching this thread since it was only 4 pages long and been quiet all along because I thought this drama wouldn’t go this far but I came to a conclusion, this is not normal, metal 2 can’t be this hard to implement and that could mean much more than a miscommunication between Nvidia and Apple. Today I decided to switch from my discrete nvidia card to the HD4600 IGPU and it’s working OBB. I think people in this thread should chose their path either pull out the card or downgrade back to HS and move on with their lives. Honestly.
Stop whining. Apple hardware is so expensive that going with AMD card is a cheap tax. You can’t play on Mac anyway so any acceleration you are going to buy from AMD for a decent bucks will be still a way better solution, than going with original proposition from Apple. Go with Nvidia for ray-tracing, Games and so on, switch to AMD for acceleration under Mac OS.
Sorry Nvidia, that I wrote such opinion on your forum. Like your cards as much as Intel for good temperatures and power consumption.
Here’s another reply from support staff:
@pastrychef- Interesting post you have there. However that seems like a troll who posted that. Even the names and the writing style seems to be from a troll.
all good! Nvidia is just busy playing Red Dead 2. This will keep us busy until they are eventually relased and we all will rejoice. I remeber when this thread was 2 pages and we are up to 23. WooT!
I can’t confirm any of it. I’m just relaying what someone else posted.
@xtrmepcgamer lol yea and the text is different sizes in his photo of the email. Along with the great google translate to English. Cracks me up.
@pastrychef That is a troll. The webpage is altered and also the response has two different font style (copy and paste) He used PDF editor/ JPG editor. The URL has two different font styles as well. A waist of time. Sorry for you being fooled by this crap.You fell for the oky doke.
Thanks for your patience. We hear your frustration. Unfortunately, NVIDIA currently cannot release a driver unless it is approved by Apple.
Our hardware works on OS 10.13 which supports up to (and including) Pascal.
Apple has published a help topic that includes a list of supported hardware for OS 10.14 Mojave. They suggest directing additional inquiries here.
Twice in a week of what? Reposting what others posted elsewhere?
I made it very clear that I never verified those posts and I don’t sit aruond to analyze fonts.
Your cheap shot missed.
If the drivers are ready, what’s stopping you guys from releasing unsigned drivers so people can get up and running?
At this point it’s pretty obvious that it’s Apple blocking them, be it legal reasons or otherwise.
There’s nothing illegal about releasing unsigned drivers.
I’ve used unsigned drivers from Solarflare.
Source: https://support.solarflare.com/index.php/component/cognidox/?view=categories&id=1795
Solarflare != Nvidia.
Nvidia has posted drivers for every OS and OS update up until now. They’ve told you they can not ship drivers without Apple’s approval. At what point are you going to accept that there is a good reason for the lack of 10.14 drivers that is beyond Nvidia’s control?
WHY??? Why can’t they release unsigned drivers??? Others do!!!
I’m not going to accept that excuse until I have a good answer. You tell me they have “good reason”. What’s the reason?
When are you going to stop making excuses for them?
Why can’t they answer such a simple question themselves?
You have no idea about the complex inner workings, politics, and legal constraints between both Nvidia and Apple. Again, Nvidia is not Solarflare. Nvidia has said all that they are going to say, and right now Apple is not letting them release a driver for 10.14.
You can accept that or continue thrashing around like a child. Me? I’m going to complain to Apple about their inability to support the hardware I use to do my job.