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  • Future Mac Pro may use Apple Silicon & PCI-E GPUs in parallel

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    thadec said:


    So, there never has been any reason for Apple Silicon Macs not supporting discrete graphics via M.2, PCIE or Thunderbolt other than Apple simply not wanting to. Which was the same reason why Apple locked Nvidia out of the Mac ecosystem and had people stuck with AMD GPU options only: purely because they wanted to. My guess is that Apple believed that they were capable of creating integrated GPUs that were comparable with Nvidia Ampere and AMD Radeon Pro, especially in the workloads that most Mac Pro buyers use them for. Maybe they are, but the issue may be that it isn't cost-effective to do so for a Mac Pro line that will sell less than a million units a year.
    Absolutely 100% accurate! They simply "don't want to."  If my old iMac Pro can get top-notch graphics performance across a TB3 interface, there is simply no reason they couldn't do the same thing with ASi, whether through TB3 or a PCIe bus.

    williamlondonprogrammer

  • Future Mac Pro may use Apple Silicon & PCI-E GPUs in parallel

    keithwkeithw
    This would be very useful if it comes to pass! It would give 3D graphics users the "best of both worlds," SOC GPUs and discrete GPUs.  My eGPU on my 6 year-old iMac Pro breathed new life into it.  While its CPU performance isn't even up to the original M1 performance, the eGPU performance blows away anything currently available on the ASi architecture, including the M2 Max.  Perhaps that advantage is short-lived if the M2 Ultra or M3 can increase the graphics performance!  For the record, the GB6 metal performance of my AMD eGPU is 194703.
    d_2tenthousandthingsroundaboutnowcgWerkswatto_cobra

  • Mac Studio may never get updated, because new Mac Pro is coming

    keithwkeithw
    Oh and one more thing- Apple, whatever you are going to do just DO IT and stop all of the useless speculation!
    williamlondon

  • M2 Pro & Max GPUs are fast -- but not faster than M1 Ultra

    keithwkeithw
    If I did the math right, the M2 Max over the M1 Max was 47.5% higher on "Metal."  Hypothesizing equal improvements, we may get 139,500 out of the M2 Ultra in the Studio (whenever Apple decides to release it.) That's ALMOST as fast as I'm getting with my AMD 6900XT eGPU on my 2017 iMac Pro. With all of this said, I can't imagine Apple releasing a Mac Pro (with any chip!) that can't meet the "Metal" result already posted by the Intel Mac Pro:  166946. 
    atonaldenimwatto_cobramuthuk_vanalingam9secondkox2rezwits

  • Apple updates Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro chip options

    keithwkeithw
    Not to be ungrateful, but where are the Mac Studio updates with the M2 Pro, Max and Ultra options?
    watto_cobrawilliamlondon