No Newer CUDA driver is available... Update Required

No Newer CUDA driver is available... What's happening?

Yet it says "Update required". Clicking on the "i", I get this...

What else?

CUDA Driver Version: 410.130

GPU Driver Version: 355.11.11.10.10.143

Clicking on "CUDA Driver Info & Updates" does nothing.

Checking my System Information, I see this...

What? Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB for Graphics? Why is the NVIDIA CUDA GPU not being utilized on my MacBook Pro?

Going deeper into the System Report, I get this...

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3

  Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7

  Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 4

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 6 MB

  Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

  Memory: 16 GB

  Boot ROM Version: 158.0.0.0.0

  SMC Version (system): 2.19f12

  Serial Number (system): C02MF3QSFD57

  Hardware UUID: 1A2815F7-8B98-560C-9FC6-17F694220A90

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M:

  Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

  Type: GPU

  Bus: PCIe

  PCIe Lane Width: x8

  VRAM (Total): 2 GB

  Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

  Device ID: 0x0fe9

  Revision ID: 0x00a2

  ROM Revision: 3776

  Automatic Graphics Switching: Supported

  gMux Version: 4.0.8 [3.2.8]

  Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v4

November 2019... "Nvidia is to drop support for macOS in CUDA..." - http://www.cgchannel.com/2019/11/nvidia-drops-macos-support-for-cuda/

• the last update is version 10.2
• the latest Apples support AMD

How to check GPU on MacBook pro? 

Find out which graphics processor is in use on your MacBook Pro... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202053

Based on the information, I have to open an app that uses GPU.

So I opened Final Cut Pro X.

Lo and behold! It's there...

Now I see NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB!

Then I opened OBS.

Checked the Activity Monitor Energy usage...

Yes, both OBS and FCPX are using the High-Performance GPU.

"To see if an app is using the higher-performance discrete GPU, open Activity Monitor and click the Energy tab. If you don't see the Requires High Perf GPU column, your computer only has one graphics processor. " - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202053

This whole thing is to check whether OBS live streaming latency issues with external cameras are actually caused by the GPU not being detected.

So the conclusion is... The GPU is working fine.

On with the next investigation before investing in an Ecamm Live app, or a new gaming Windows laptop... or a new MacBook Pro.

About Ecamm Live... https://adriansjournal.blogspot.com/2020/05/ecamm-live.html

If Ecamm Live can distribute the processing workload between the CPU and GPU, is there a way to make OBS do the same thing?

TO BE CONTINUED... https://adriansjournal.blogspot.com/2020/05/how-do-i-use-gpu-with-obs-on-macbook-pro.html

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