Hi All,
I read the whole topic to find a possible solution for my bad nVidia 1080Ti experience, mainly since Sierra / High Sierra. As noticed by members in the hackintosch scene recently on TonyMacX86 / InsanelyMac the nVidia drivers are terrible. Special the latest are almost unusable. Fallback to older versions will help but to some point they will cause problems too because they are old and not intent to be used on the latest MacOS versions.
At this moment I'm using an old version of the nVidia drivers : 378.10.10.10.25.106 together with two options "System Preferences / Accessibility / Display / Reduce Motion + Reduce Transparency the GUI responds more snappy and to some point even to an almost acceptable experience. Also Cuda performance is very good 12200GB / Host to Device and reverse. The issue looks to be GUI related only.
I am still looking to a possible solution or to find out why the hell the experience is so bad. So I bought an old R9 280X to be added in my hack. I was unlucky because the card did only one good Valley bench and after it failed and caused artefacts so this card is dead. The card was performing perfectly without issues but again its no party against the 1080Ti when it comes to gaming which I also do on my Hack from time to time. Also struggling with many GPU's in a system is also far from comfortable. I also considered to move to AMD Vega 64 but I'm to spoiled with the 1080Ti if we are talking to gaming performance in windows, especially when it comes to 4K gaming.
After reading this topic I came to a few conclusions.
- Best is to stick to MacPro5,1 SMBios definition. This definition is supported by the nVidia WebDrivers. Other SMBios definitions are unsure to work as they should.
- The main reason of lags can be narrowed to the latest CPU's like Skylake and newer or in combination with mainboards with the latest chipsets to drive these CPU's
Do I forget things here ˆˆˆ?
I also read comments from guys in this topic that they are fully comfortable with the drivers and don't experience any lags at all with 10xx or specific with the 1080Ti. Are they indeed on older CPU / Mainboards?
Do I miss something, and is there something to be the "Golden Tip" to solve my issue?
Because eGPU's are officially supported more people will throw in a GPU in an enclosure to profit from extra external GPU performances. Although Apple has announced that only AMD will be supported there is a chance
that nVidia will provide better drivers that their cards are supported as well. I hope this brings better drivers for us, hackintoshers as well!.