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TH3P4G3 Thunderbolt eGPU Dock Review (2022)

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Re: TH3P4G3 Thunderbolt eGPU Dock Review (2022)

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

zeusk wrote: post #4
jitl wrote: post #3

Just as this technology is being commoditized in a high quality way, Apple decides to drop support :(

Did apple ever have eGPU support? and even if they did, they had a nasty fallout with nvidia some time ago.

I have a 2020 Intel Mac Mini where it works reasonably well with a Razer Core X and some midrange 2018 era AMD card. Nvidia cards were never supported but AMD got to the point where they were reasonably plug and play for awhile. It isn’t without its warts but I even got it working with Bootcamp to the point that I was playing Windows games natively on Mac with eGPU. Not enough juice to run Cyberpunk on full settings but it can run 2016-2018 games that take a decent amount of power pretty well. No Man’s Sky is an example. I find it especially helpful for running CAD software

Support has always been somewhere in between the hacking required to get a hackintosh to work and the “it just works” of native Mac stuff. Usually just requires a specific sequence of keyboard presses, clicks, or events to get it working

Re: TH3P4G3 Thunderbolt eGPU Dock Review (2022)

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Post by jerrysievert »

zeusk wrote: post #4
jitl wrote: post #3

Just as this technology is being commoditized in a high quality way, Apple decides to drop support :(

Did apple ever have eGPU support? and even if they did, they had a nasty fallout with nvidia some time ago.

not only did they have support, they offered an egpu/vr goggle pair around 2017.

the support eventually improved and was dropped with apple silicon.

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