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Re:iMac Pro Available Now by pjmlp on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:03AM (#15923301)
It won't matter, because the NVidia driver provided by Apple would only talk Metal Compute anyway.

I don't see them doing otherwise.

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Re:iMac Pro Available Now by tvon on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:10AM (#15923359)
NVidia provides drivers, I'm using one on a Hackintosh now.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html

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Re:iMac Pro Available Now by pjmlp on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:26AM (#15923518)
The golden question is if they would be allowed on an actual macOS image without hacks, Hackintoshes don't count.
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Re:iMac Pro Available Now by cbrewster on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:47AM (#15923807)
What? The page linked has drivers for macOS. They work on a hackintosh and on any regular Mac. Nvidia wouldn’t release official drivers that only work on a hackintosh.
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Re:iMac Pro Available Now by pjmlp on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:20PM (#15925860)
Today, the OP question was about a future Mac Pro.
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Re:iMac Pro Available Now by samcat116 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:53PM (#15925480)
They're meant for the older Mac Pros that could still have normal Nvidia GPUs in them. They just happen to work perfectly fine in Hackintoshes.
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Re:iMac Pro Available Now by pjmlp on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:21PM (#15925873)
That was my point, we are playing "what if" here regarding future Mac Pros.

Given the move away from OpenGL/OpenCL into Metal, I don't have big hopes for future models.

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