and now I'm sure the risk takers are trying them out in their hackintosh's, so I'm going to go over Pascal (I'm going to use the GTX 1080 as a reference, as the 1070 isn't released, correct me if I'm wrong) and check the features, and some info on hackintosh compatibility!

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Specs first

• New Pascal architecture (Duh)
  
• 8GB GDDR5X memory
  
• 2560 CUDA cores
  
• 1607MHz base clock speed
  
• 320GB/s memory bandwidth
  
• 16 nm manufacturing process
  
• Pricing is quite a bit over $600 USD as they are selling a founders version mostly right now, so that price will get cheaper.
  

Now some of the mains points of pascal are:

• Low power consumption
  
• 4K
  
• 16 nm manufacturing process (vs the 28 nm of nVIDIA's previous "Maxwell" architecture.
  
• and high power performance
  

Now I'm not here to so much do a review on the video card, I'm more checking out the stuff that hackintoshers are interested in,

so that brings us to OS X compatibility:

• OS X 10.11.0 to 10.11.6: None
  
• OS X 10.10.0 to 10.0.5: None
  
• OS X 10.9.0 to 10.9.5: None
  

The list goes on, pascal (Which means GTX 1080, and 1070) have no support in OS X at all! If you are a die hard, then by all means go and enjoy a low resolution, crumby performance, and no HDMI audio, etc. Devs, go for it if you want to try to get it to work on OS X.

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To sum it all up, the pascal line of cards doesn't work yet, and It'll be awhile till they are, buy a 980, and the best intel i7 CPU you can find if you are willing to fork out that much cash.

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-XtremeHacker, June 6th, 2016