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> Price would be around $1300 for the computer, $300 for an eGPU enclosure, and $700ish for a Radeon R7, plus aftermarket RAM. AMD's not in a great spot for hig

> Price would be around $1300 for the computer, $300 for an eGPU enclosure, and $700ish for a Radeon R7, plus aftermarket RAM. AMD's not in a great spot for high end GPUs right now, but when the Navi 23 cards land next year it will be looking better. I used to want an eGPU. Then I learned that you need to disable SIP in order to do so... > This doesn't scale as well for multi GPU machine learning workloads and Apple needs to get over their shit with Nvidia, but as a lower end "modular" Mac than the $6000 cheese grater 2019, it's an option. No one is going to wait for that hypothetical future where MacOS supports Nvidia GPUs.

wlesieutre 7y ago
> I used to want an eGPU. Then I learned that you need to disable SIP in order to do so... I hadn’t heard that. A quick search suggests it’s only necessary for loading Nvidia kexts or using TB2 https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_without_disabling_sip/ https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_wit... > No one is going to wait for that hypothetical future where MacOS supports Nvidia GPUs. True, but their Navi cards are at least competitive in the price ranges where they exist. Hopefully the high end ones next year continue that. If you’re looking at Titan or whatever the current ML thing is in the $1000+ range, then you might be stuck with Nvidia.
- arvinsim 7y ago
  > I hadn’t heard that. A quick search suggests it’s only necessary for loading Nvidia kexts or using TB2 https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_wit.. https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_wit.... Interesting. I might ask around to verify this. > True, but their Navi cards are at least competitive in the price ranges where they exist. Hopefully the high end ones next year continue that. If you’re looking at Titan or whatever the current ML thing is in the $1000+ range, then you might be stuck with Nvidia. I am rooting for AMD's Navi cards too. It's just unfortunate that CUDA seems to be more supported than OpenCL.
  - wlesieutre 7y ago
    Agreed on that. AMD put a bunch of work into the Cycles rendering engine (for blender) to get their OpenCL support up to par with CUDA, and now it's completely disabled on the Mac version thanks to Apple deprecating it. Disappointing. https://developer.blender.org/rBbb0d812d98 https://developer.blender.org/rBbb0d812d98

wlesieutre 7y ago

> I used to want an eGPU. Then I learned that you need to disable SIP in order to do so... I hadn’t heard that. A quick search suggests it’s only necessary for loading Nvidia kexts or using TB2 https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_without_disabling_sip/ https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_wit... > No one is going to wait for that hypothetical future where MacOS supports Nvidia GPUs. True, but their Navi cards are at least competitive in the price ranges where they exist. Hopefully the high end ones next year continue that. If you’re looking at Titan or whatever the current ML thing is in the $1000+ range, then you might be stuck with Nvidia.

arvinsim 7y ago
> I hadn’t heard that. A quick search suggests it’s only necessary for loading Nvidia kexts or using TB2 https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_wit.. https://www.reddit.com/r/eGPU/comments/8lybin/macos_egpu_wit.... Interesting. I might ask around to verify this. > True, but their Navi cards are at least competitive in the price ranges where they exist. Hopefully the high end ones next year continue that. If you’re looking at Titan or whatever the current ML thing is in the $1000+ range, then you might be stuck with Nvidia. I am rooting for AMD's Navi cards too. It's just unfortunate that CUDA seems to be more supported than OpenCL.
- wlesieutre 7y ago
  Agreed on that. AMD put a bunch of work into the Cycles rendering engine (for blender) to get their OpenCL support up to par with CUDA, and now it's completely disabled on the Mac version thanks to Apple deprecating it. Disappointing. https://developer.blender.org/rBbb0d812d98 https://developer.blender.org/rBbb0d812d98