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EGPUs aren’t supported for the M1, but Big Sur still identifies and connects to them, implying Apple may restore this feature in the future.
by valuearb 6y ago
EGPUs aren’t supported for the M1, but Big Sur still identifies and connects to them, implying Apple may restore this feature in the future.
- robotnikman 6y agoI think eGPUs require a thunderbolt connection, which IIRC is only supported by Intel processors
- EwanToo 6y agoThe new mac's ship with USB4/Thunderbolt ports - it's now a cross-platform port (USB4 is a merger of sorts between USB and Thunderbolt) https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-4-faq,38766.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-4-faq,38766.html
- leoc 6y agoApparently Thunderbolt is full of low-level x86 quirks, so getting existing devices working on ARM Macs is likely to be a punishingly heavy lift even for Apple, which seems to have barely started work. And of course Intel isn't likely to be all that co-operative. https://level1techs.com/video/can-apple-do-thoughts-armthunderbolt https://level1techs.com/video/can-apple-do-thoughts-armthund...
- valuearb 6y agoApple is the developer of thunderbolt,They wrote the specifications for it and there are two thunderbolt ports on every M1 Mac
- dreamcompiler 6y agoIntel invented Thunderbolt as LightPeak. Apple developed it further in cooperation with Intel.
- valuearb 6y agoYou are right. I forgot about LightPeak, which was designed to work over optical cables. Apple came in when Intel decided to build a version for standardized cables, and helped Intel develop the spec (and even supplied the name). But my point remains. Apple knows Thunderbolt as well as Intel does by this time.
- jsgo 6y agoThere is one AMD motherboard I’ve seen with a TB3 port. ASRock I think makes it?
- 2wrist 6y agoI saw this mentioned recently that they are just missing drivers. Which this being ealy days for Apple Silicon makes sense.