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Video: Apple eGPU developer kit tested with a 15-inch Thunderbolt 3 MacBook Pro

AppleInsider takes a look at Apple's eGPU developer kit, including the Radeon RX 580 video card, and the Sonnet eGFX enclosure.

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18 Comments

electrosoft 9 Years · 52 comments

Here's hoping Apple embracing expandable, configurable GPUs spills over to their next Mac Pro and it throws back to the Mac Pro tower and it's myriad of expandable options. I am still trucking along with a Mac Pro 2009 flashed and upgraded to a 3.46ghz CPU (original CPU was 2.66), RX 560 GPU (Original GT 120), and SM951 SSD (original slow as molasses mechanical). I've maxed this as much as it can go (except for the GPU).

I could also see adding one of these to my 2017 Macbook Pro and make it my main driver stationary and on the go depending on what Apple has to offer with their Mac Pro redesign.

PracticalBatman 7 Years · 1 comment

I really truly wish Apple would stop their relationship with AMD and go back to Nvidia. It's caused us so many issues (at a college) because all the Adobe apps render much slower without Cuda. They've asked us to pull 5 year old machines out and redeploy them just to have nvidia graphics back, just for the hardware acceleration. CUDA is immensely valuable, but hey, lets just throw irrelevant AMD chipsets at it.

Mike Wuerthele 8 Years · 6906 comments

tyler82 said:
How much is this bad boy

The dev kit as examined here is $599. There's a bunch of eGPU enclosures at this point, but until Apple officially declares if they're blessing any given configuration, it may not be a bad idea to wait.


Plus, full, official, support for eGPUs won't be available until the spring.