I have been a Windows user and a gamer for a long time where we expect frequent driver updates.

Could you perhaps edit the title to reflect what you seek to learn It seems an odd turn of words to state that an operating system requires updates.

The latter seems more plausible to me, but either is just speculation.

There is also support for some cards which have been legacied by Apple - namely the GeForce 680, 285, 120 8800 There is mention of beta support for some recent mobile cards, presumably as Apple are dropping legacy support on these in favour of AMD in the current lineup.

If Apple were to write its own drivers, it wouldnt have this conflict of interest.

Traditionally, if your card has full OGL support for the first monitor, it will also have it on the second, unlike many PC cards with clipped performance on the 2nd monitor.

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If youre concerned about the updates available for your particular card, (especially if it is not original to the Mac youre using,) it behooves you to visit the manufacturers respective web sites to check.

You mentioned NVIDIA: heres the link to the drivers available for download.

Looks like plenty of options for many operating systems.

Graphics Mac OS X NVIDIA Drivers

Mac OS X NVIDIA drivers are only available for Quadro-series boards, tho.).

The installers just barf with a no compatible card found error.

In the case of your Retina MacBook Pro with an Nvidia card, theres beta support with Nvidias latest drivers.

Theyre somewhat hard to find if you just go through Nvidias driver search feature, but theyre an easy find if you just Google Nvidia driver OS X your OS X version (e.g.

The default drivers are probably more thoroughly tested and stable, less likely to break your Mac, and are supported officially by Apple.

If you do install the Nvidia driver, though, youll always have the option to switch back to the default driver or even uninstall the Nvidia driver via System Preferences.

On my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.11.2 and an Nvidia GT 650m card, Cinebenchs OpenGL test gives a very slight edge to Nvidias drivers (52 fps) vs.

Click on Extensions and you can see all the hardware drivers as well as whether it is updated via Apple or via a third party.

You can reset any ignored updates and then call for all updates to be listed with this compound command: softwareupdate --reset-ignored; softwareupdate --list --all.

On a Mid 2014 MacBook Pro, running High Sierra, System Report tells me that the driver was last changed in October (so less than a month ago from when Im writing this, roughly coinciding with the release of 10.13.1).

However, the info text says the driver is based on Geforce 355.11, released in 2015.

Apple seems to touch them on the surface, but you will not get proper updates of the underlying driver.

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