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Re:MacOS finally gains external GPU support by minimaxir on Friday March 30, 2018 @01:00PM (#16717796)
No. Officially, this doesn't support NVIDIA cards yet, which are a requirement for any modern DL framework.

There are beta NVIDIA drivers (http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/131833/en-...) for macOS, but your mileage will vary.

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Re:MacOS finally gains external GPU support by samcat116 on Friday March 30, 2018 @01:21PM (#16717971)
These aren’t beta drivers. They’ve been released for quite some time and are updated with (almost) every macOS release. However I’d say they’re pretty barebones as Nvidia doesn’t seem to care too much about the Mac at this point.
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Re:MacOS finally gains external GPU support by minimaxir on Friday March 30, 2018 @01:23PM (#16717993)
The notes say "Includes BETA support for iMac and MacBook Pro systems with NVIDIA graphics." (specifically, Pascal drivers)

The reason for that is Apple hasn't shipped a iMac/MacBook Pro with an NVIDIA card in years, which is especially annoying for DL work.

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Re:MacOS finally gains external GPU support by michaelgreen on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:51PM (#16718787)
In practice they work just fine, it's just very annoying to initially set them up and you have to do some patching to get the latest version of tensorflow working with it. I use one every day and I haven't run into any problems while running models with both pytorch and tensorflow.
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