Nvidia plans to remove cuda support for macos
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Apple and Nvidia have had a strained relationship for more than a decade, as a result of an unreliable line of MacBook Pro powered by Nvidia technology. Both Apple and Nvidia lost a lot of money in addressing these issues, and now Apple refuses to ship graphics components made by Nvidia within their systems.
macOs will run out of CUDA support very soon, Nvidia no longer sees reason to support Apple
In the latest CUDA release notes for Nvidia, the company has confirmed that CUDA 10.2 will be the latest version of CUDA compatible with macOS. This means that all future versions of CUDA will not be compatible with Apple devices.
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CUDA is Nvidia's parallel computing platform, a suite of tools that enables software developers to take full advantage of the company's graphical hardware. Now, Apple's MacOS Mojave update has made Metal support within graphics cards a must-have feature, and Apple is refusing to add new Nvidia drivers to the platform.
The story here is simple, Apple doesn't want to support Nvidia graphics cards on its platform, and in turn, Nvidia doesn't see the need to support Apple with its software developments. Today, only two Nvidia graphics cards are compatible with macOS 10.14; The Quadro K5000 for Mac and the GTX 680 Mac Edition.
Current professional applications for macOS are now optimized for Metal and OpenCL, which work well on AMD / Radeon graphics hardware. This change also has other consequences for macOS, such as the lack of hardware Ray Tracing acceleration. Apple will have to wait for Radeon to create equivalent hardware features before it can take advantage of them, which could take a while.
It is clear that Apple has no plans to support Nvidia hardware in the near future, so Nvidia has no reason to continue supporting CUDA on macOS. CUDA users will have to transition to a new operating system or a new computing platform.
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