Nvidia drivers from 10.9, GeForce.kext has mentions of three geforce generations in it’s Info.plist
GF100 (old fermi cards)
GK100 (current kepler cards)
GM100 (future Maxwell cards)
This means they started writing drivers for maxwell, and it means samples already exists.
Some sneak peak from Apple.
Tesla acceleration drivers in 10.9
GeForceTesla.kext
GeForceTeslaGLDriver.bundle
GeForceTeslaVADriver.bundle
Don’t know what card they are for, Fermi based tesla C2070 didn’t used them.
Just a guess: It could be drivers optimized for computing, like there are some for windows. Maybe new Mac Pro will have not only the Firepro.
Sorry guys, its nothing about tesla cards, its just driver for older generation of geforce cards, gt200 aka tesla.
Lots of people ask what will happen if they connect videocard over thunderbolt 2 to new MacPro.
Let’s figure that out.
First, what is thunderbolt 2.
In thunderbolt 1, you had 2 lines of bidirectional 10 Gbit/s link, one for video and one for data.
In thunderbolt 2, these lines are combined, now you can get either 20 Gbit/s for data or for video.
That gives us 2.5 Gbyte/s.
now lets looks at pcie
| PCIe Bandwidth Comparison (Each Direction) | |||||
| PCIe 1.x | PCIe 2.x | PCIe 3.0 | |||
| x1 | 250MB/sec | 500MB/sec | 1GB/sec | ||
| x2 | 500MB/sec | 1GB/sec | 2GB/sec | ||
| x4 | 1GB/sec | 2GB/sec | 4GB/sec | ||
| x8 | 2GB/sec | 4GB/sec | 8GB/sec | ||
| x16 | 4GB/sec | 8GB/sec | 16GB/sec | ||
so, TB2 is a bit faster than pcie 3.0 x2 or pcie 2.0 x4 (talking about pcie 2.0 because true (old) macpros has pcie 2.0 links)
Now, if you want to know performance impact, open this link for a good article at anadtech and look for red bar.
In games, performance impact could be from few percents up to 40 percents. In opencl workload impact gonna be high.
Let’s look at new macpro, thanks The Verge and Apple for pics of it.
1) The processor and RAM. There is only one CPU, and 4 ram slots around it, ram seems to be easily accessible.
2) The disk. Their so called pci-e ssd is…. looks like some macbookpro ssd.
3) The GPU. There is two of them, you can see their backplates on sides of MacMiniPro
These things don’t look changeable.
Hence you will be able to upgrade memory and disk, but nothing else, sounds like mac mini.
Found a link to 10.9 sdk http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/04/57/041-9949/zg3gr3r5m2qdqk0b5xt4t8534x033vp4rh/MacOSX10_9_SDK.pkg
According to it, bootargs is still 2.0, so current bootloader should work
With updated nvidia drivers from 10.8.4 beta Geforce GTX TITAN works. Now for real.
attaching new screenshot
According to fudzilla, sapphire has launched 7950 radeon mac card. Therefore a hunt for its bios begins!
10.8.3 update has ati7000 drivers:
ATI7000Controller.kext
AMDRadeonX4000GLDriver.bundle
Screenshots by our member Rominator
Apple posted Mountain Lion update for new macs (new imac, macmini, 13″ rmbp), which was shipped with custom 10.8.1.
The update is 10.8.2 with very fresh video drivers.
Nvidia drivers – 304.10.20f04
AMD drivers has acceleration support for 7xxx series (in amdRadeonAccelerator.kext), but no framebuffer driver for these cards.
P.S. no good news for 6970.
The high end new imac has geforce gtx 675MX/680MX which is based on same core as gtx680 (gk104), just with less shaders (960/1536), so:
1) its gonna be beast mac, especialy 680mx, it’s just like desktop’s gtx680, just with lower clocks, ultimate gaming All-In-One computer
2) we will have better gtx670/gtx680 support
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