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When did Apple switch from Nvidia to AMD?
The iMac 2014s moved to AMD with the introduction of the 5k iMac. If there was any hope of Nvidia and Apple reconciling, 2014 was the end of it. Nvidia went litigious against Samsung and Qualcomm over mobile graphics patents, filing a lawsuit over mobile GPUs.
Will Apple ever use Nvidia again?
Apple just doesn’t allow modern Nvidia GPUs on macOS Mojave, and this is a dramatic change from only six months ago. Given that a new Mac Pro is coming that could support Nvidia cards, and there are already eGPUs that should, it’s time that Apple did.
Why did Apple switch from Nvidia to AMD?
Apple used nvidia in the past because of the more powerful cuda cores. When 5xx seiries came out NVIDIA cut the compute power of their gpus and made them more gaming mainstream cards. It was then when apple announced their new apple products with AMD gpus.
Why doesn’t Apple support Nvidia drivers?
Someone at Apple simply doesn’t want to support Nvidia drivers, possibly because of relational issues from the past. For the longest time, Apple’s professional apps were optimized for OpenCL, which AMD cards run efficiently, and not CUDA, the proprietary framework that Nvidia focuses on.
Are Nvidia graphics cards causing problems with your MacBook?
Back in July of that year, Nvidia itself had admitted problems though when AppleInsider asked, the company refused to confirm that its chips were causing the MacBook problems. By this point Nvidia was doing more than straight graphics processing. It was also providing a way for Apple to integrate and connect these GPUs to the rest of the MacBook.
Does the new Mac Pro support Nvidia eGPUs?
Apple just doesn’t allow modern Nvidia GPUs on macOS Mojave, and this is a dramatic change from only six months ago. Given that a new Mac Pro is coming that could support Nvidia cards, and there are already eGPUs that should, it’s time that Apple did. As with anything Apple, there’s a long history between the two companies. And, some bad blood.