eGPU support in OSX 10.13.4

[Oliver Peters]

[Bill Davis] “For more detailed information:”

Unfortunately what that doesn’t answer is whether or not these ports are actually from a common bus internally. For example, on the 2013 Mac Pro, you have 6 TB2 ports, but only 3 buses. So If I have two TB3 devices plugged into the left side of a 13″ MBP – and they both draw on the full TB3 bandwidth each – is that going to work?

– Oliver

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[Misha Aranyshev]

If Resolve is one of the only couple of thing that matters then you probably know well that it could use an Nvidia GPU in a Thunderbolt expansion box before this system update. It is things like hot plug and internal screen acceleration that didn’t work.

[Oliver Peters]

There are starting to be some issues reported with this update. So far Duet is the only specific one I’ve seen other than some generalized fan issues on some machines.

https://help.duetdisplay.com/faq/305404-macos-10-13-4-support

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

Also FYI – it appears that with this update, eGPU support has been removed for TB1 and TB2 devices. If that’s you, DON’T update past 10.13.3. Whether or not any of the Apple apps gain an advantage is questionable. Seems like there’s acceleration in playback but not exports. This isn’t official news, but rather what other users have surmised, tested and posted elsewhere.

Also, Bare Feats:
https://barefeats.com/rmbp_node_pro.html

– Oliver

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