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Apple showed a lineup of compatible PCIe cards, with a variety of accelerators and I/O hardware but conspicuously no GPUs. https://i.imgur.com/28J1KfN.jpg http

Apple showed a lineup of compatible PCIe cards, with a variety of accelerators and I/O hardware but conspicuously no GPUs. https://i.imgur.com/28J1KfN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/28J1KfN.jpg The Apple Silicon transition ended support for external GPUs, so I think it's safe to assume they won't support internal ones either.

jmkni 3y ago
Man I'm so out of what's going on with desktop computing lol, feeling old Could somebody explain what these are?
- mixmastamyk 3y ago
  Expansion cards, they were supported by the original PC from the 80s and even before that.
  - jmkni 3y ago
    I'm not that old lol, was wondering specifically what they were
    - mixmastamyk 3y ago
      As you can see they're still a thing, so you could be any age from 0-60.
- BXlnt2EachOther 3y ago
  left to right, had to search a few of them. You're probably not out of it, it's just relatively niche professional stuff. Half of them are only relevant for media professionals for example. Sonnet card - adds storage via a couple SATA SSDs OWC 8M2 - adds storage via up to 8 NVME drives Avid HDX card, runs DSP for ProTools (audio) Kona 5, video capture and I/O Lynx E44, high-quality audio I/O Blackmagic decklink SDI 4k - SDI video capture ATTO high-speed ethernet card, maybe 50GbE ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel Adapter - Storage HBA edit to add linebreaks
  - jmkni 3y ago
    Nice thankyou!
0xcde4c3db 3y ago
The product page specifically touts the Radeon Pro W6800X Duo.
- jsheard 3y ago
  The product page hasn't been updated yet, it's still describing the Intel model. If it were current then they'd have something newer than the years-old W6800X Duo.
  - 0xcde4c3db 3y ago
    Sorry, you're right. I thought I saw a mention of an M2 spec, but it must have been something else.
bee_rider 3y ago
I guess (although, I don’t actually know, low level stuff is confusing) this is an OS thing, right? Rather than hardware. Of course since it is Apple, the concept is bundled together anyway. But I wonder if Asahi Linux could bring support?
musicale 3y ago
> conspicuously no GPUs That is interesting. I wonder how hard it would be to do PCI passthrough to enable GPUs to work with Windows 11 ARM running in a VM? I wonder if it is even possible to write a driver for an external GPU for macOS on Apple Silicon? It seems that Metal on macOS Sonoma intel still supports external GPUs.

jmkni 3y ago

Man I'm so out of what's going on with desktop computing lol, feeling old Could somebody explain what these are?

mixmastamyk 3y ago
Expansion cards, they were supported by the original PC from the 80s and even before that.
- jmkni 3y ago
  I'm not that old lol, was wondering specifically what they were
  - mixmastamyk 3y ago
    As you can see they're still a thing, so you could be any age from 0-60.
BXlnt2EachOther 3y ago
left to right, had to search a few of them. You're probably not out of it, it's just relatively niche professional stuff. Half of them are only relevant for media professionals for example. Sonnet card - adds storage via a couple SATA SSDs OWC 8M2 - adds storage via up to 8 NVME drives Avid HDX card, runs DSP for ProTools (audio) Kona 5, video capture and I/O Lynx E44, high-quality audio I/O Blackmagic decklink SDI 4k - SDI video capture ATTO high-speed ethernet card, maybe 50GbE ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel Adapter - Storage HBA edit to add linebreaks
- jmkni 3y ago
  Nice thankyou!

0xcde4c3db 3y ago

The product page specifically touts the Radeon Pro W6800X Duo.

jsheard 3y ago
The product page hasn't been updated yet, it's still describing the Intel model. If it were current then they'd have something newer than the years-old W6800X Duo.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y ago
  Sorry, you're right. I thought I saw a mention of an M2 spec, but it must have been something else.

bee_rider 3y ago

I guess (although, I don’t actually know, low level stuff is confusing) this is an OS thing, right? Rather than hardware. Of course since it is Apple, the concept is bundled together anyway. But I wonder if Asahi Linux could bring support?

musicale 3y ago

> conspicuously no GPUs That is interesting. I wonder how hard it would be to do PCI passthrough to enable GPUs to work with Windows 11 ARM running in a VM? I wonder if it is even possible to write a driver for an external GPU for macOS on Apple Silicon? It seems that Metal on macOS Sonoma intel still supports external GPUs.