Apple's Computers Now Officially Support External GPUs

[Guest]

Apple announced support for Thunderbolt 3-based external GPUs with macOS High Sierra 10.13.4.

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[oneblackened]

Course, it doesn't matter too much - there are Nvidia drivers up through Pascal for MacOS, so it should work just fine.

 

[10tacle]

Whew. Anywhere from $250-$450 *just* for the interface box...then you have to buy the card. You'd have to be a serious Apple fan to fork out this much money just to use a dedicated GPU. Kind of ruins the all-in-one clean look of their modern iMac desktops. I guess it's better than nothing for those wanting to game.

When Apple made full sized case Mac Pros some years back, you could buy Apple-approved dedicated internal PCIe video cards. Some are still for sale out there on the used market like a GTX 680 variant. Example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-GTX-680-2GB-SC-SIG-CUDA-Graphics-Video-Card-for-Apple-Mac-Pro/253374419756?hash=item3afe4ad32c:g:1DIAAOSwUQlaoe9V

 

[kenjitamura]

You'd have to be a serious Apple fan to fork out this much money just to use a dedicated GPU.

Just about every Apple user is a dedicated Apple fan. It's like alcoholism; 10% of the population are predisposed to the addiction, they make what would otherwise be poor computer purchasing decisions, and there is no reasoning with them when they're in fan boy mode.

 

[nobspls]

What took Crapple so long? Doesn't Crapple claim they are first at inventing everything?

 

[gggplaya]

Great, AMD GPU's that are significantly over MSRP due to miners.

 

[toadhammer]

Vega is still pretty cutting edge too, in the sense that some graphics-related programs are suffering from driver crashes.