What can you do with VR headsets on the Mac? I got a Vive to use with my iMac pro, but there doesn’t see to be any compatible software.
#Apple egpu support mac#
I know the eGPU doesn't give you the true effect of having a physical card installed on the motherboard (logic board in Apple's case), but from everything I read and watch it does make quite a difference over what Apple chooses to put in whatever newer TB3 Mac you have. I would love for AMD to have a true competitor to the 1080 or higher. AMD cards tend to suck versus NVIDIA ones for gaming.
#Apple egpu support software#
However AMD is far more open with their software which in my mind is a huge plus. Niether AMD nor NVidia produce perfect cards nor perfect software. What i find strange is peoples obsession with NVidia. I have no love for NVidia so from that standpoint i dont care. This is only the first release, give it time! I kinda doubt something this new is even mature on AMD hardware. I know AMD is good and things NVIDIA isn't and visa versa, but I hope in the future both are taken into consideration. I understand.but it does seem like Apple wants nothing to do with NVIDIA at the moment. NVidia has something similar, but not identical. If not it could be sometime before i return as a Mac customer. Im actually hoping we see massive changes to the Mac line up real soon. Now do i believe that Apple will revisit this old hardware? Nope in my opinion they have regressed to past behavior of screwing over the custome with high prices on outdated hardware. In any event nothing would stop Apple from supporting older machines once the kinks are worked out here. There are likely other factors with this exclusion of hardware, some of those are why i have an HP ENVY laptop right now. As such i see the USB-C port as Apples long term play with TB. TB 1 in my mind was a proof of concept and even TB 2 was of likited interest. The user experience on TB2 or TB isn't as speedy as Apple might like, I expect. Yea, hopefully it's a bug or oversight, not a purposeful exclusion! Perhaps in 10.13.5, maybe it will come back to at least TB2.
#Apple egpu support pro#
Yea, this point is really a bummer if using/considering a cylinder Mac Pro or pre-2016 MBP. TB1 and TB2 worked in accordance with their max speeds - until beta 5, and they didn't. Once a session is finished Apple notes that the new chip icon in the Mac's menu bar should be used to disconnect it. To check whether cards are working properly, users should open the macOS Activity Monitor, then select Window and GPU History. Any VR headsets should be plugged into the eGPU. Apple's enclosure recommendations all have 87W of charging power available to the host machine, and 13-inch MacBook Pros from 2016 or later should always have eGPUs plugged in on the left-hand side to guarantee maximum bandwidth. Mac owners must also use Thunderbolt 3, since official support for earlier versions of Thunderbolt was also dropped in the beta period.Īpple notes that people can connect more than one eGPU, though people should use direct connections whenever possible instead of daisy-chaining. Nvidia does have the "web driver" for its PCI-E that it updates after every macOS revision, but at present that isn't sufficient to run the cards in an enclosure, without third-party hacks applied, and even that can be problematic.ĭuring the beta process, some cards that worked during Apple's initial testing of eGPU support are no longer supported, such as the AMD RX 560. The list notably excludes any cards from Nvidia. As long as the card mostly complies with the reference specification, they are able to be used in an eGPU enclosure. Support is not limited to any specific card vendor. Suggested enclosures come from companies like PowerColor, Sonnet, and OWC - but others can work as well. These include the Radeon RX 570 and RX 580, the Radeon Pro WX 71, and finally the Radeon RX Vega 56, 64, and Vega Frontier Edition Air. In a support page posted on late Thursday, the company suggests several AMD video cards.
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