- Egpu for macbook pro late 2013 driver#
- Egpu for macbook pro late 2013 upgrade#
- Egpu for macbook pro late 2013 software#
Egpu for macbook pro late 2013 software#
But for anybody looking to extend the life of their existing Mac for a few more years to wait and see how the Apple Silicon transition shakes out, updates from Apple and key software partners make an eGPU a great choice.
Egpu for macbook pro late 2013 driver#
But while Apple has directly sold a few eGPUs, and natively supports AMD graphics cards without any special driver gymnastics required, it’s still mostly a niche category. These have very high throughput, making it possible for a GPU in an internal enclosure to offer almost as much graphics processing capability as one connected internally.
Existing Macs with Intel chips will still be useful long after the transition is complete, however, and software porting means they might even support more of your existing favorite applications for the foreseeable future, which is why adding an external GPU (eGPU) likely makes more sense now than ever.Īpple added support for eGPUs a few years ago, made possible by the addition of Thunderbolt 3 ports on Macs. And while new Intel-powered Macs will be released and sold leading up to that time, it does mean that the writing is on the wall for Intel-based Apple hardware. That process is meant to begin with hardware to be announced later this year, and last two years according to Apple’s stated expectations. hence another option for TwinMotion if the iMac alone does not perform well enough for you.Apple recently announced they would be transitioning their Mac line from Intel processors to their own, ARM-based Apple Silicon. The test with two cards shows half the time as one card. but the Blender benchmark includes times for an eGPU with one GPU card and another with TWO cards. That same site has another set of benchmarks - again of a 16" MacBook Pro which I know you're not looking at. These tests were done with a single GPU in the eGPU.
As noted there, the 13" falls down on pure CPU (ARCHICAD) performance). This benchmark, for example, shows very similar graphics performance with the same eGPU in both MacBook Pro 13" and the much more powerful MacBook Pro 16". The extra heat of course will be handled by the external box at that point. A loaded 2020 iMac would make more sense for a longer usable life in that regard.Īs far as TwinMotion - note that you can add an external GPU (eGPU) to the iMac via a Thunderbolt port in the future if you find you need better graphics performance, including multiple GPUs. As soon as I start Twinmotion on this machine, its fan goes to "11" trying to cool itself!Īs you are apparently a long-term Mac owner, you know that Apple will drop support for new operating systems on older hardware sooner or later.
Egpu for macbook pro late 2013 upgrade#
I'm currently running a 2013 era iMac with a 3.4 GHz 4 core i7 with 32Mb of RAM, and a 2Gb video card - so I'm pretty sure either machine will be a gigantic upgrade for me.
I also think the Mac Pro will deal with the increased heat load from Twinmotion giving it a workout. I think that the iMac would probably be better on a day to day basis, but the Mac Pro would be better for long stints of TwinMotion rendering? I've seen some benchmarking that suggests that you do have to load up the old Mac Pro with maxed out RAM to get the most out of its 12-core Xeon. I'm considering a new Mac purchase - can't really afford a iMac Pro or new Mac Pro, but looking at the new 2020 iMac similar to what user "Kans" has just obtained:
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