Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone on the forum is running a 2017 15" Macbook Pro with an external gpu.
I've recently acquired a 2017 2.9Ghz i7 model, and plan to use it as my daily laptop as well as the work horse on my desk as i'm moving to a different country and don't want to lug my desktop along.
Current desktop specs : Fx 8350 4.8GHz/R9 290x/16GB/multiple sata III ssds/
As the current generation i7's on laptops are of a comparable performance to my desktop cpu, but about 6 times more power efficient, it was cause to make this purchase.
I've been out of the retail computing space for quite a few years and would like some advice.
I'm thinking of getting the Mantiz Venus Thunderbolt 3 enclosure @ U$389. It comes with 5 USB 3.0 ports / lan / thunderbolt and a SATA 3 port and would like to pair it with a GTX 1070
From my research, I've only seen test results in the form of synthetic benchmarks and not in the form of real world FPS from games.
Is anyone running a similar setup ? Eg. 2016MBP/GTX1060/GTX1050Ti/RX480/RX580
Would love to hear some comments.
Cheers,
Ninja