Finally: Pascal Driver Support for Mac Users !!!

[serge-m]

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/nv ... c-support/

[mustardseedsg]

O. M. G. Somebody please pinch me!

But does Octane C4d support Pascal yet?

[glimpse]

That single good thing about TitanXp. The rest is far from that..

[indexofrefraction]

That single good thing about TitanXp. The rest is far from that..

whats not good about the titan Xp ?

[rrbarb]

And what is not good about "the rest of the 10 series" looks encouraging to me.

[indexofrefraction]

could you guys stop talking in riddles
and could you maybe recommend :

is it better to buy
1) a titan x maxwell
2) a 1080
3) wait for the titan xp

and where can you download the macos (beta) drivers from nvidia?

[Iceman9]

could you guys stop talking in riddles
and could you maybe recommend :

is it better to buy
1) a titan x maxwell
2) a 1080
3) wait for the titan xp

and where can you download the macos (beta) drivers from nvidia?

None of the above. Easy choice is 1080TI.

[glimpse]

That single good thing about TitanXp. The rest is far from that..

whats not good about the titan Xp ?

Hi there ;) sorry not to reply in more detail the other day.
ok, why did I say, that support for Macs is the only good thing?

Let's try to compare 1080Ti ($700+) to new TitanXp ($1200+ =)

Buying TitanX rather than 1080Ti You would get:
* extra 1GB of VRAM (12 instead of 11GB) - that's less than 10%
* Extra performance - no more than 10%

So, I would ask You, what's the point to pay more than 50% for extra 10%???
Both cards are based on the same chip, just TitanX gets slightly more enabled.

OK, for looking a bit different way, let's take an amount, for instance ~4k$.
Let's grab quad core CPU for ~400$, add some RAM for ~200$, quad GPU capable motherboard ~350$, powerful AIO ~150$, case ~200$, PSU ~300$, NVME based SSD ~200$. ..
TOTAL SYSTEM COST ~>>> 1,8k$

from what is left You buy:
3x GPUs in case of 1080TI or 2x TitanXp. What would You choose?
(performance from 3x 1080Ti 510-600, while from couple of TitanXps would be 400 - 450 in OctaneBench)

Honestly, TitanX will be sold for those who have too much money in their pockets..- like Mac trashbins.. however.. it's not worth =)

we only talked here about fixed budged, what if we try to build a box with 7x watercooled cards? (since 1080Ti is single slot ready - all You need to do is add waterblock..) In this case for 7 cards alone the difference would be 7x (1200-700) ~>3500$ =) that's the amount that would get You: Mobo, CPU, PSU, CASE, SSD & full watercooling loop =) End result from 7x 1080TI? 1400 in terms of OctaneBench without a sweat.

TitanXp is a joke. Nvidia knows that & that's why they are silently refreshing it..because there's no point to brag about it. But again, they do that, because they can =) & they will sell, good enough

[indexofrefraction]

ok... thanks for the heads up about this...
can i ask you which 1080 Ti you recommend?

[glimpse]

ok... thanks for the heads up about this...
can i ask you which 1080 Ti you recommend?

depends on what are You using it for, what case & how much cards You're looking to have in total.

Reference cooler is pretty impressive. WIth stock fan curve it's pretty silent & average case it works really good! So I would recommend that.

However if You know what You're building: have a motherboard that allow extra space between GPUs & case that brings let's have a lot of airflow something like strix/windforce/icx would work great as well.

Without knowing a bit more context it would be hard to give proper advice.