[Bloomberg] Nvidia Job Postings Suggest an Nvidia Chip Return to Apple Macs

[Mondozei]

Read it here.

 

[Sweepr]

It's Polaris this year, but from 2017 onwards it's up for grabs. Pascal performance per watt for mobile is really impressive and Volta is rumored to bring another significant leap, that's something Apple can't ignore.

 

[jpiniero]

Someone in HR is sooo fired... the job posting now makes no reference to new macs; only Metal and OpenCL.

Keep in mind that this isn't that big of a deal since Apple only currently has dGPUs on the upgraded 15" Macbook Pro and the 27" iMac. The Mac Pro is probably getting discontinued.

 

[Glo.]

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/155161110

The same job offer is floating in one way or another over LinkedIn for over 12 months. Apple is focusing solely on Metal API on macOS. And there is few GPUs that still will have support, so Nvidia has to bring the drivers for Metal to Mac.

But because the offering is more than 12 months old, I do not believe they do offer very large R&D budget on Mac drivers.

 

[Yakk]

But because the offering is more than 12 months old, I do not believe they do offer very large R&D budget on Mac drivers.

12 months?! Then I'll have to say the work/reward radio involved probably isn't great.

I was thinking perhaps nvidia was looking ahead a couple generations and gearing up for a bid to get their gpus into future macs following the Polaris generation, but it doesn't even look like it.

 

[Glo.]

Well, we have been discussing the same/similar job offer in august last year on Macrumors forum. So its not that it happened yesterday .

In Mac Pro subform many people are demanding Nvidia again on the Mac. I do not see that happening. There is no Maxwell and Pascal Kexts in any of the builds of Apple computer system, there is however in Nvidia Web Drivers beta support for that architecture. Pascal is nowhere to be seen despite official release of Sierra.

So I would not put my money on return of Nvidia hardware to Apple ecosystem.

 

[ThatBuzzkiller]

It's nothing concrete, Nvidia had to provide driver support regardless if they wanted their Kepler GPUs to support Metal on Macs since Apple is still updating the gfx API ...

 

[dark zero]

INBF nVIDIA is powering up the next iPhones GPUs to bring VR on those devices.

 

[Bacon1]

INBF nVIDIA is powering up the next iPhones GPUs to bring VR on those devices.

Doesn't the iphone have one of the better GPUs out there? Or is it just much better optimized. Stopped following phone hardware a while ago when I realized how silly and expensive it was for how limited the devices are compared to windows tablets.