Unless you have one of the new Apple silicon M1/ M2 Macs or one of the iMac Pros then an eGPU is a good investment to enhance the graphic processing capabilities of your Mac.Īn eGPU unit can turn your humble MacBook Pro or MacBook Air into a powerful desktop gaming system or 4K video editing system capable of competing with the very best.Īdvanced 3D graphics platforms such as NVIDIA CUDA, which are way beyond the capabilities of current Macs, suddenly become accessible with an eGPU. However, although there are many eGPUs on the market, not all are Mac compatible. With the introduction of super fast Thunderbird 3 ports on Macs and eGPU compatibility in the latest versions of macOS Monterey, Big Sur and Catalina, you can finally accelerate 3D graphics in Metal and OpenCL using an eGPU.Īn eGPU is essential to keep up with the demands of the latest games, graphic intensive applications and meet the demands of Virtual Reality (VR) games or Augmented Reality (AR).
Can You Use NVIDIA Cards With eGPUs On Mac?Īn eGPU (External Graphics Processing Unit) is an external graphics card which enhances your Mac’s ability to handle graphics.Īn eGPU will enhance the graphics performance of any Thunderbolt 3 Mac running macOS High Sierra 10.14.4 or higher.For some tasks, the new MacBook Pros will be the best graphics processor on the market. It will be interesting to see how NVIDIA and AMD rise to the challenge.Īlso note the 64 GB of vRam is unheard of in the GPU industry for pro consumer products. That one could very well be the most disruptive processor to hit the market. Not only does this mean that the best laptop you can buy today at any price is now a MacBook Pro it also means that there is considerable performance head room for the Mac Pro to use with a full powered M2 Pro Max GPU. The one area where the M1 Pro and Max are way ahead of anything else is in the fact that they are integrated GPUs with discrete GPU performance and also their power demand and heat generation are far lower. Apple is likely working on hardware ray tracing as evidenced by the design of the SDK they released this year which closely matches that of NVIDIA's.
A minor concern is that the Apple Silicon GPUs currently lack hardware ray tracing which is at least five times faster than software ray tracing on a GPU.
Not only are the CPUs among the best in computer the market, the GPUs are the best in the laptop market for most tasks of professional users. The M1 Pro and M1 Max are extremely impressive processors. OutdoorAppDeveloper said about 1 year ago
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