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  • Hands On: Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Puck with Radeon RX 560

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    I'd love to see the benchmarks and real world performance with this paired with an older Thunderbolt 2 Mac (iMac, MacBook, mini etc..).  Just add on the $50 apple  thunderbolt 3-2 cable and you'd be good to go.  This could extend the life of my mid 2012 MacBook pro for another few years. Id buy it in a heartbeat if graphics performance was close to the performance of the new MacBooks. Cant wait for benchmarks.
    xzuwatto_cobra

  • Hands On: Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Puck with Radeon RX 560

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    Mike Wuerthele said:
    lilred505 said:
    I'd love to see the benchmarks and real world performance with this paired with an older Thunderbolt 2 Mac (iMac, MacBook, mini etc..).  Just add on the $50 apple  thunderbolt 3-2 cable and you'd be good to go.  This could extend the life of my mid 2012 MacBook pro for another few years. Id buy it in a heartbeat if graphics performance was close to the performance of the new MacBooks. Cant wait for benchmarks.
    We've checked Thunderbolt 1 and 2 compatibilities with all the other eGPU enclosures we've tried. That said, you have a mid-2012. That means you have Thunderbolt 1.

    That's a really bandwidth-constrained environment. While it's 10Gbit per second per channel, with two channels, it'll only use one of them resulting in one quarter the effective data transfer rate as TB3.

    It's hard to recommend spending money on an eGPU for a TB1 machine.
    you are correct.. Its TB1.. but actual FPS do not reflect the bandwidth limitation.. at least in the benchmarks I've seen. only about 15-20 cut in framerate. I will also be able to use this on a TB2 MacBook Air and or my mac mini.. so many options.
    GeorgeBMacwatto_cobra

  • Nvidia's Turing GPU architecture includes ray-tracing cores, 8K video playback support

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    lilred505 said:
    so.. found this on another site..

    "Usernames like RoyTeX (RTX), Not_11, Mac-20, and Eight Tee all seem to spell out RTX 2080, a potential name for the new Nvidia card."

    any hope that "Mac-20" might refer to a Mac based card coming??

    heres to hoping
    Well, the Nvidia line prior to this one works now with the web driver package -- assuming you've got a Mac with PCI-E slots.
    Works isn't completely true.. if I can't use my system as normal, upgrade the os etc... then I don't consider it really working. Too many what ifs currently.  I am currently running a 1080ti in my cMP. So I understand all the limitations.
    What I am hoping for is native GPU support with boot support in the firmware of the card.  No flashing needed, like the 680. Also, Plug one into an EGPU and it just works..  I understand this is also up to apple.  We can hope apple has slapped Nvidia enough and has come back to their senses and use the superior GPU.
    watto_cobra