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You should look into thunderbolt external GPUs. The discrete GPUs in apple laptops have traditionally been out of date, out of the box. Good enough for a lot
by DigitalJack 10y ago
You should look into thunderbolt external GPUs. The discrete GPUs in apple laptops have traditionally been out of date, out of the box.
Good enough for a lot of people, but if it matters to you, and you really want a mac, perhaps the external GPU is the option for you.
- andrepd 10y agoThe technology is really not there yet. I have been considering changing my setup to a 13.3 light notebook with long battery life + an external GPU, but I'm still waiting on the technology to become mature.
- elmigranto 10y agoHave you looked into Razor thing? They claim full PCI utilization, if I'm not mistaken.
- toyg 10y agoYou mean the Razer Core? It looks like it's announced on their website but not actually on sale. EIT: It is actually on sale, but US-only (hence why I couldn't see it with UK settings).
- nroach 10y agoThere are no mass-market thunderbolt GPUs with fully-functional mac drivers at this point, are there? I've been looking and at best there are unsupported hacks.
- IMcD23 10y agoAn external Thunderbolt 2 GPU will only run at the equivalent of PCI x4, while Thunderbolt 3 eGPUs will do enough bandwidth to have full GPU performance. eGPU driver support was added to macOS Sierra, so hopefully the new Macbook Pros with USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 will support eGPUs nicely.