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Nvidia and Apple should work together to support at least Nvidia GPUs in eGPU configurations, up to and including the RTX family.
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It also strikes directly against Apple’s claim to care about professional users and professional markets.
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But the major benefit of the eGPU ecosystem is precisely that users have far more freedom to upgrade their graphics card, even if they’re limited to a mobile system.ĭisallowing product support for the largest graphics card vendor and the major GPU player in the AI and ML markets is anti-competitive and consumer-hostile.
If Apple wants to rely solely on AMD as a formal partner for its integrated GPUs, that’s entirely its own business. There do not appear to be technical reasons why Nvidia’s GPUs cannot be supported on macOS 10.14 (Mojave).
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Gamers and professional users are best-served when they have the freedom to deploy the software and hardware solutions they want to use in as flexible a manner as possible. But with macOS 10.14 (Mojave), that support is gone - and according to AppleInsider, they can’t even figure out why. In addition, there are professional areas and applications where Nvidia’s GPUs and CUDA support are preferred over AMD. eGPU support has been a major value-add for both Macs and PCs over the last few years, and the concept of using an external GPU opens the door to the vendor Apple isn’t integrating into its own hardware, whomever that might be. While this support has been unofficial, it made sense for Apple to at least keep its hand in the proverbial game. This continued to be the case through macOS 10.13, which supported Nvidia’s Pascal family. For years, Nvidia cards have worked in Mac systems on an unofficial level, which meant you could get things to operate if you were willing to roll up your sleeves a little bit. Much ink has been spilled criticizing the company’s various design decisions and raising questions about its product families, particularly in recent years, as prices have risen and product decisions have seemed to prioritize form over function.īut even with all of that said, the company’s attitudes towards Nvidia’s GPUs could really use some explaining.
Still hope for two more years of Intel-based laptops for 16''.
Also, it doesn’t support external GPUs (eGPU) via Thunderbolt like its Intel-based counterpart does.
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I'm not getting a newer model any time soon due to being so expensive here and also thinking about the long run, I use Final Cut Pro X, After Effects, Photoshop and AutoCAD so right now and for the rest of the year this is my only option.For the most part, asking why Apple won’t support things is a futile endeavor. New Apple laptops are just totally proprietary and become useless for eGPU users. The new M1 laptop chip in Apple’s refreshed Mac mini, as well as in the 13-inch MacBook Air and Pro models, maxes out at 32 gigabytes of RAM. I'm asking because I enjoy gaming on the MacBook Pro (even though it's only WoW). IF SO, will it still be supported when 10.13.4 comes out? (I would like this one answered by any apple official, so I'm sure it will work importing an eGPU encore (which comes for about 470-600 dollars after taxes)) This is marvelous so I did some more research and found out that my Mac supports High Sierra which introduces native eGPU support.ĭoes my Early 2011 MacBook Pro supports eGPUs? I don't really have that money but I came across this "eGPU thing" and, hey O.O thats a THING? Well, cool. Now, I did get a good fps bump but metal doesn't support the HD6750m, and open GL *****.Ī macbook is quite expensive here in Brazil with prices starting at 2000 dollars. It runs wonders when editing videos and photos on final cut and photoshop but I play world of warcraft and compared to my macbook air 2015, this is a blessing. its battery cycle states 6, its clean inside, my dad got it from the company and used it, well. That being said, the MacBook is brand new. I have recently got my hands on a MacBook Pro Early 2011 with the current specs:
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