Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Post by naves » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

https://xcancel.com/__tinygrad__/status/2039213719155310736

Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
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Post by bigyabai » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

The opportunity cost of Apple refusing to sign Nvidia's OEM AArch64 drivers is probably reaching the trillion-dollar mark, now that Nvidia and ARM have their own server hardware.

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Post by wmf » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 4:59 PM UTC

Pretty misleading. This driver is only for compute not graphics.

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Post by polotics » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #3

Pretty misleading. This driver is only for compute not graphics.

As a sizable share of the market is going to want to use this for local LLMs, I do not think this is that misleading.

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Post by chuckadams » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 5:03 PM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #2

The opportunity cost of Apple refusing to sign Nvidia's OEM AArch64 drivers is probably reaching the trillion-dollar mark, now that Nvidia and ARM have their own server hardware.

Apple got out of the server game long before they adopted aarch64, so that's a trillion worth of server hardware they never would have sold anyway. And probably not actually a trillion.

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Post by bigyabai » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

chuckadams wrote: post #5

bigyabai wrote: post #2

The opportunity cost of Apple refusing to sign Nvidia's OEM AArch64 drivers is probably reaching the trillion-dollar mark, now that Nvidia and ARM have their own server hardware.

Apple got out of the server game long before they adopted aarch64, so that's a trillion worth of server hardware they never would have sold anyway. And probably not actually a trillion.

Apple was the only one stopping themselves from getting back in. It's not like the Mac is a trillion-dollar market segment to begin with.

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Post by varispeed » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 5:09 PM UTC

chuckadams wrote: post #5

bigyabai wrote: post #2

The opportunity cost of Apple refusing to sign Nvidia's OEM AArch64 drivers is probably reaching the trillion-dollar mark, now that Nvidia and ARM have their own server hardware.

Apple got out of the server game long before they adopted aarch64, so that's a trillion worth of server hardware they never would have sold anyway. And probably not actually a trillion.

USD starts sounding more and more like meaningless tokens. Billion here, trillion there. I still have 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars somewhere.

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Post by eoskx » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

Interesting, but cannot run CUDA or more to the point `nvidia-smi`.

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Post by arjie » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

Woah, this is exciting. I'm traveling but I have a 5090 lying around at home. I'm eager to give it a go. Docs are here: https://docs.tinygrad.org/tinygpu/

I hope it'll work on an M4 Mac Mini. Does anyone know what hardware to get? You'll need a full ATX PSU to supply power, right? And then tinygrad can do LLM inference on it?

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Post by manmal » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #3

Pretty misleading. This driver is only for compute not graphics.

Graphics was not what came to mind when I saw the headline.