Dschijn Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Check out the difference in performance of the latest driver compared to the previous one: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti in the Mac Pro 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgyVenison Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I don't get the same huge improvement, but there definitely is some improvement, ±2~7%. Might be somewhat bottlenecked in my setup, but idk for sure. Setup: Macbook Pro 13" Mid-2012, i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz + GTX 960, OSX 10.10.4 [link] Unigine Valley 31.6 fps » 32.3 fps Cinebench R15 50.40 fps » 53.78 fps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinm0 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I ran Tomb Raider's benchmark test on my late 2012 iMac (i7, 680MX) in OS X with the latest web driver and got the following:iMac+Akitio Zotac GTX970 (1080p, max settings)Min: 36.7Max: 91.6Avg: 73.8iMac+680MX dGPU (1440p, max)Min: 41.9Max: 64Avg: 54.8iMac+680MX dGPU (1080p windowed, max)Min: 59.5Max: 95.4Avg: 80.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonSays Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 I don't get the same huge improvement, but there definitely is some improvement, ±2~7%.Might be somewhat bottlenecked in my setup, but idk for sure.Setup: Macbook Pro 13" Mid-2012, i7-3520M @ 2.90 GHz + GTX 960, OSX 10.10.4 [link]The bottleneck for you is Thunderbolt, Those test's are inside a Mac Pro through pcie 2xGreat OpenCL performance gains though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishman Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 I ran Tomb Raider's benchmark test on my late 2012 iMac (i7, 680MX) in OS X with the latest web driver and got the following:iMac+Akitio Zotac GTX970 (1080p, max settings)Min: 36.7Max: 91.6Avg: 73.8iMac+680MX dGPU (1440p, max)Min: 41.9Max: 64Avg: 54.8iMac+680MX dGPU (1080p windowed, max)Min: 59.5Max: 95.4Avg: 80.3That's encouraging. I have an iMac of the same year as you (only difference is i5 650M, 21.5") and have been considering seriously upgrading via a TB eGPU solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishman Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 So, it seems that Apple's El Capitan was released to the public with the (then) latest nVidia web driver rolled into it. In fact, installing El Cap on my stock late 2012 21.5" iMac saw the nVidia web driver uninstalled and replaced with the one Apple offers. When I launch the Metro Redux games, I see that the performance benefit I saw with the web drivers before El Cap still intact. Great news.I an getting notified through the nVidia Driver Manager on my machine that a newer version of the web driver is now available. Has anyone upgraded this to see what it does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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