MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for Driver Release 346.01.02f01
In order to run Mac OS X Applications that leverage the CUDA architecture of certain NVIDIA graphics cards, users will need to download and install the CUDA 5.5.28 driver for Mac located here. New in Release 313.01.4f06: Graphics driver updated for Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 (12F2560). New Release 8.0.90. General CUDA driver update to support macOS 10.12 and NVIDIA display driver 378.05.05.25f01; Recommended CUDA version(s): CUDA 8.0; Supported MAC OS X. 10.12.x; 10.11.x; An alternative method to download the latest CUDA driver is within Mac OS environment. Access the latest driver through System Preferences Other CUDA.
- Model identifier should be Mac Pro 5,1 (2010), Mac Pro 4,1 (2009) or Mac Pro 3,1 (2008)
- Mac OS X v10.10.3 (14D131)
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To download and install the drivers, follow the steps below:
STEP 1: Make sure your Mac OS X software version is v10.10.3 (14D131). It is important that you check this first before you install the 346.01.02f01 Driver. Click on the Apple icon (upper left corner of the screen) and select About This Mac. Click the More Info button to see the exact build version number (14D131) in the Software field.
STEP 2: If your OS X software version has not been updated, in the About This Mac window, click on the Software Update button
STEP 3: Continue to install software updates until your system OS is reported to be v10.10.3 (14D131)
STEP 4: Review the NVIDIA Software License. Check terms and conditions checkbox to allow driver download.
You will need to accept this license prior to downloading any files.
STEP 5: Download the Driver File
Download - WebDriver-346.01.02f01.pkg
STEP 6: Install
After downloading the driver package, it should automatically launch the installer. If it does not, double-click on the driver package from your download target location. It will guide you through the installation process. Click Continue after you read the License Agreement and then click Agree
STEP 7: Click Install on the Standard Installer screen. You will be required to enter an Administrator password to continue
STEP 8: Click Continue Installation on the Warning screen: The Warning screen lets you know that you will need to restart your system once the installation process is complete.
STEP 9: Click Restart on the Installation Completed Successfully screen.
STEP 1: Make sure your Mac OS X software version is v10.10.3 (14D131). It is important that you check this first before you install the 346.01.02f01 Driver. Click on the Apple icon (upper left corner of the screen) and select About This Mac. Click the More Info button to see the exact build version number (14D131) in the Software field.
STEP 2: If your OS X software version has not been updated, in the About This Mac window, click on the Software Update button
STEP 3: Continue to install software updates until your system OS is reported to be v10.10.3 (14D131)
STEP 4: Review the NVIDIA Software License. Check terms and conditions checkbox to allow driver download.
You will need to accept this license prior to downloading any files.
STEP 5: Download the Driver File
Download - WebDriver-346.01.02f01.pkg
STEP 6: Install
After downloading the driver package, it should automatically launch the installer. If it does not, double-click on the driver package from your download target location. It will guide you through the installation process. Click Continue after you read the License Agreement and then click Agree
STEP 7: Click Install on the Standard Installer screen. You will be required to enter an Administrator password to continue
STEP 8: Click Continue Installation on the Warning screen: The Warning screen lets you know that you will need to restart your system once the installation process is complete.
STEP 9: Click Restart on the Installation Completed Successfully screen.
Nvidia is to drop support for macOS in CUDA, its GPU computing platform, used by many GPU renderers.
According to the release notes for CUDA Toolkit, this week’s 10.2 update will be “the last to support macOS for developing and running CUDA applications”.
A further hurdle for Mac users who want to use Nvidia GPUs
Nvidia’s decision to stop supporting macOS in CUDA isn’t a major surprise given that, for some years, Apple hasn’t included Nvidia GPUs in its workstations and laptops.
Nvidia’s decision to stop supporting macOS in CUDA isn’t a major surprise given that, for some years, Apple hasn’t included Nvidia GPUs in its workstations and laptops.
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Apple’s consumer machines offer integrated Intel graphics as standard; professional workstations, like the Mac Pro, iMac Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro, also offer discrete AMD cards.
That leaves an external GPU chassis as the only option for running GPU renderers that require CUDA – and therefore a Nvidia graphics card – on macOS.
However, even running Nvidia hardware in eGPUs became much harder with the release of macOS 10.14 last year, given the lack of graphics drivers for current Nvidia cards.
The reasons are discussed in more detail in this AppleInsider story, but at the time of posting, the only GPUs that Apple officially specifies for eGPUs are made by AMD.
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So which GPU renderers don’t need CUDA?
That creates problems for Mac users hoping to use their GPUs for rendering, since the major commercial GPU render engines – including OctaneRender, Redshift and V-Ray GPU – currently require CUDA.
That creates problems for Mac users hoping to use their GPUs for rendering, since the major commercial GPU render engines – including OctaneRender, Redshift and V-Ray GPU – currently require CUDA.
Renderer developers looking to use Nvidia’s OptiX framework – increasingly being used to implement hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia’s curent-gen RTX GPUs – also need the CUDA Toolkit.
While some GPU renderers, such as Blender’s Cycles engine, support AMD cards via OpenCL, even OpenCL support was deprecated in macOS 10.14 in favour of Apple’s own Metal 2 API.
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At the time of posting, few GPU renderers support Metal: AMD’s own Radeon ProRender is one of the few exceptions, although Metal-compatible versions of both Redshift and OctaneRender have been announced.
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