BlackMagic eGPU

[Eric Santiago]

Booo it doesnt ☺

Im still smiling since now it pushes me to buy a new system.

[Marc Wielage]

[Eric Santiago] “Anyone know if this works with the 2013 Mac Pro?”
Thunderbolt 3 only, so no.

[Ben Hendriks]

https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/script-enable-egpu-on-tb1-2-macs-on-macos-10-13-4/

[Joseph Owens]

Hacking the Thunderbolt-3 interface seems to be a lot of trouble to go to in order to achieve slow results. There is a reason TB3 is specified. TB2 or slower is not on par with PCIe 16-lane, which is what the eGPU is trying to emulate. Even though the AMD GPU built-in to the unit seems to be very capable, I don’t see it as a desktop substitute yet – just trying to get ahead of those who will try to leverage it beyond the laptop-MacBookPro deployment it was clearly designed for.

Very curious to see how it would perform as a dual-GPU platform with the 2017 27″ iMacPro5K with the 580 on-board.

jPo, CSI

\”I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me\” Oscar Wilde.

[David Cherniack]

[Joseph Owens] ” There is a reason TB3 is specified. TB2 or slower is not on par with PCIe 16-lane, which is what the eGPU is trying to emulate.”

But seeing as TB3 is 4 lanes it doesn’t do a very good emulation job of a16 lanes interface. This eGPU idea is just to sell a lot of hardware to folks for whom lower powered systems are sufficient.

David
https://AllinOneFilms.com

[Bob Cole]

[Eric Santiago] “smiling since now it pushes me to buy a new system.”

Me too, but I want to hear whether the new MBP’s keyboard issue has been resolved.

eGPU or not, and apart from the keyboard issue, has anyone here tested Resolve 15 with the 2018 MBP? I have performance issues when editing multi-layer video with Resolve 14, using my mid-2014 MBP.

Bob C

mid-2014 MBP
500 GB solid state drive, T4 RAID
16 GB memory
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB