Apple enables support for external Radeon GPUs using Thunderbolt 3

[rawrdaysgoby]

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/apple_enables_support_for_external_radeon_gpus_using_thunderbolt_3/1

Is this an April fools joke I don't know but looks real enough and linus was just talking about this just 2 days ago about egpu support from Apple

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Apple has provided a list of supported eGPU enclosures and graphics cards, though users will need to be careful and ensure that their eGPU chassis can power both its internal GPU and a connected MacBook Pro. Below is a list of supported graphics hardware. 

- AMD Radeon RX 570
- AMD Radeon RX 580
- AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100
- AMD RX Vega 56
- AMD RX Vega 64
- AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Air
- AMD Radeon pro WX 9100

This is great news Apples devices can actually have a even more solid life span now. Looks like apple really does hate Nvida this is great news for AMD though 

 

[DrMacintosh]

Retoast and yes it is real.

 

[VaneBlade]

Apple has fallen too far off the deep end tbh, and even if they try their hardest, they aren't going to go too far. This is a decent feature, but Windows has always had it, and it just shows how money hungry Apple really is.

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, VaneBlade said:

Apple has fallen too far off the deep end tbh, and even if they try their hardest, they aren't going to go too far. This is a decent feature, but Windows has always had it, and it just shows how money hungry Apple really is.

"Windows always had it"

 

If you mean always as in since the introduction of Thunderbolt 3 that is 

1.) Not very long

2.) not entirely true

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, VaneBlade said:

Apple has fallen too far off the deep end tbh, and even if they try their hardest, they aren't going to go too far. This is a decent feature, but Windows has always had it, and it just shows how money hungry Apple really is.

At least it's implemented on a wider scale across their range, I'll give them that. When was the last time you've seen a thunderbolt enabled Windows laptop? Even for desktops, thunderbolt is mostly reserved for enthusiast class boards. 

[rawrdaysgoby]

Oops I I didn't scroll down long enough to see it was already posted on Friday.... I was like didn't linus just talk about this on Wan show on Friday but this was also posted on friday so I didn't see it

[VaneBlade]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

At least it's implemented on a wider scale across their range, I'll give them that. When was the last time you've seen a thunderbolt enabled Windows laptop? Even for desktops, thunderbolt is mostly reserved for enthusiast class boards. 

Well Intel had a press release stating that in 2018 it would become a royalty-free standard to OEMs and chip manufacturers, making it more of a staple than a nice to have feautre. I mean, I have a 500 dollar MSI laptop with a GPU enclosure running a GTX 970 and it does the job. I just want to see Apple make a tower again lol.

 

[DrMacintosh]

6 minutes ago, VaneBlade said:

I just want to see Apple make a tower again lol.

 

[VaneBlade]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

 

Omg lmao im dying

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, VaneBlade said:

Omg lmao im dying

was the best PC circa 2003 

[W-L]

This was previously posted, let's keep discussion in one collective thread:

 

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