Why did they use AMD?

[Goku1814]

In the hack pro video, why did they use AMD Graphics cards and not nvidia? Is there something im missing that would help me understand why they did it like that? Or is it like how some games run better with AMD or via versa NVIDIA if that makes sense.

Edited June 14, 2020 by Goku1814

[Electronics Wizardy]

amd cards work much better in osx than nvidia card. I don't think recent versions of osx will support nvidia cards.

 

 

[Grabhanem]

Apple has some kind of driver feud with nvidia, so they haven't supported an nvidia card in years.

[Goku1814]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

amd cards work much better in osx than nvidia card. I don't think recent versions of osx will support nvidia cards.

 

 

Oh okay is that like how CSGO favors Intel more than AMD?

[Goku1814]

Just now, yaboistar said:

because

a.) nvidia is not the only high-performance graphics vendor

and

b.) some applications benefit from using OpenCL under AMD rather than CUDA under Nvidia and it really depends on your usecase as to what you choose so you can make best leverage of your hardware in your budget

 

or

c.) Lisa Su has personally enslaved LMG to only feature builds with their products in a massive global conspiracy

Probably C lol

[The_russian]

Just now, yaboistar said:

because

a.) nvidia is not the only high-performance graphics vendor

and

b.) some applications benefit from using OpenCL under AMD rather than CUDA under Nvidia and it really depends on your usecase as to what you choose so you can make best leverage of your hardware in your budget

 

or

c.) Lisa Su has personally enslaved LMG to only feature builds with their products in a massive global conspiracy

Or you know not being able to get drivers for Nvidia cards in MacOS might have something to do with it...

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Goku1814 said:

Oh okay is that like how CSGO favors Intel more than AMD?

Kinda, apple just doesn't want to support nvidia gpus, so there are no drives for it on osx. 

[The_russian]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Kinda, apple just doesn't want to support nvidia gpus, so there are no drives for it on osx. 

Last I heard it was Nvidia that didn't want to provide drivers for MacOS, not that Apple doesn't want Nvidia support. If I remember correctly it had something to do with Apple requiring access to either the source code or the code for the drivers, I probably used the wrong terminology but basically Nvidia doesn't want others to know how their tech works. 

[Goku1814]

Just now, The_russian said:

Last I heard it was Nvidia that didn't want to provide drivers for MacOS, not that Apple doesn't want Nvidia support. If I remember correctly it had something to do with Apple requiring access to either the source code or the code for the drivers, I probably used the wrong terminology but basically Nvidia doesn't want others to know how their tech works. 

But can anyone download the drivers off the NVIDIA website and install them onto a mac? Or is that not even a option? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, The_russian said:

Last I heard it was Nvidia that didn't want to provide drivers for MacOS, not that Apple doesn't want Nvidia support. If I remember correctly it had something to do with Apple requiring access to either the source code or the code for the drivers, I probably used the wrong terminology but basically Nvidia doesn't want others to know how their tech works. 

I think its more of a apple thing. Nvidia has made drivers for osx for a while, and up to pretty recently. Apple hasn't used nvidia gpus for a while in their products(I think the 2014 macbook pros were some of the last with nvidia chips). 

[The_russian]

1 minute ago, Goku1814 said:

But can anyone download the drivers off the NVIDIA website and install them onto a mac? Or is that not even a option? 

As far as I know that isn't an option. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Goku1814 said:

But can anyone download the drivers off the NVIDIA website and install them onto a mac? Or is that not even a option? 

The last nvidia driver for osx seems to be for 10.13, so if you have a newer version of osx there just aren't any drivers to use.

[Goku1814]

Just now, The_russian said:

As far as I know that isn't an option. 

Now thats just bs. How that is that possible. 

[The_russian]

2 minutes ago, Goku1814 said:

Now thats just bs. How that is that possible. 

Here's an article that explains why:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/14/video-nvidia-support-was-abandoned-in-macos-mojave-and-heres-why

 

The short version is Nvidia and Apple don't get along right now.

[Zberg]

I didnt see the whole video yet but assuming they tried to keep as close as possible to mac pro?

 

Apple and Nvidia dont get along, so you are kind of stuck with AMD GPUs in all their systems currently.  I would bet that's why they went that direction.  Keep things as close as possible? 

[igormp]

3 hours ago, Goku1814 said:

Now thats just bs. How that is that possible. 

If you go into nvidia's website, you'll see that the latest supported card is from the 600 series on macos 10.13 (we're on 10.15 now).