Steve Troughton-SmithJul 12, 2023

Apple: please don't buy Mac Pro. We don't know how to make it any more obvious. We pushed the price way up, we took out all the storage and RAM slots, and no longer support GPUs. We thought about doing more, but no consumer should ever buy or want to buy this machine. It is for very specific niches. We’d discontinue it if we could.

Mac Pro believers: …well maybe the *M3* model will double the core count and start adding features back in! And it will probably have a chassis redesign!

Apple: 🤦

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@stroughtonsmith

I can understand it not working with display outputs from a GPU driver, but do NO GPUs work, even as co-processors (such as for Machine Learning, Physics Compute, etc)?

Jul 13, 2023 at 12:15amWeb
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@atatassault Apple Silicon macOS has no GPU drivers, and GPU drivers cannot be created without Apple's first-party support (as we saw with Nvidia's web driver). There is no API to build GPU drivers in modern macOS, either; legacy kexts need the user to disable a bunch of system security features just to install them. And as far as I'm aware no third-party driver, even if possible to build, could act as a system graphics, physics or compute processor without Apple's support and integration
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@stroughtonsmith

LMFAO. "Here's all these PCIe slots. Oh, by the way, the things you'd want to use in them won't work."