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> Apple announced external GPU support at last year’s WWDC, finally rolling out support for the feature back in March. I'm surprised. I guess I'd always assum
by 394549 8y ago
> Apple announced external GPU support at last year’s WWDC, finally rolling out support for the feature back in March.
I'm surprised. I guess I'd always assumed that they'd already implemented that for the trash-can Mac Pro. IIRC, one of the selling points was thunderbolt was so fast that card slots were obsolete, so if you needed to upgrade the GPU you could just use thunderbolt.
- buildbuildbuild 8y agoThunderbolt’s licensing cost and high price point of external PCie breakouts are the adoption bottleneck IMO.
- mikhailt 8y agoInitially, yes. Later this year or next year, Thunderbolt will be an open royalty-free non-exclusive format. Source: Intel: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunderbolt-3-everywhere/ https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunder... Once it is opened up, it should in theory drop the prices with more companies being able to product TB chipsets.
- rangibaby 8y agoNetkas (netkas.org) spent years getting non-Apple GPUs and eGPUs working on Macs with varying levels of success. I flashed a PC Radeon to work on my Mac Pro 1,1 with help from the Netkas forums sometime around 2010.