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When is Apple going to recognize that we want Nvidia GPUs? Come on Apple. People are literally buying outdated MacBook Pros to have a CUDA compatible GPU.

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It won't matter, because the NVidia driver provided by Apple would only talk Metal Compute anyway.

I don't see them doing otherwise.

NVidia provides drivers, I'm using one on a Hackintosh now.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html

The golden question is if they would be allowed on an actual macOS image without hacks, Hackintoshes don't count.

What? The page linked has drivers for macOS. They work on a hackintosh and on any regular Mac. Nvidia wouldn’t release official drivers that only work on a hackintosh.

Today, the OP question was about a future Mac Pro.

They're meant for the older Mac Pros that could still have normal Nvidia GPUs in them. They just happen to work perfectly fine in Hackintoshes.

That was my point, we are playing "what if" here regarding future Mac Pros.

Given the move away from OpenGL/OpenCL into Metal, I don't have big hopes for future models.

Agreed wholeheartedly. This is (allegedly) a workstation. I'm a big AMD and OpenCL fanboy, but at the moment CUDA the only game in town.

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