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mdriftmeyer said:

BS. If it were coming to MacOS then AMD Threadripper and Ryzen would already be here.

How does this statement make any sense? What does AMD have to do with Apple planning to switch to their own ARM chips, AMD using x86/AMD64? 

I still meet people calling me crazy and making appeals to authority ("I'm a developer!") when I mention the ARM transition online. Anyone who thinks it isn't happening simply is not paying attention. Whether it's fast or slow, it is coming, that's for sure. 


Curious if they will take over the dedicated GPU silicon for macs with those at the same time 

Thunderbolt 3 does limit specific titles, especially in compute, much less bandwidth than a standard slot, although it works fine enough for most games. If they're going to use a proprietary connector that includes power, I hope it's more than TB3 bandwidth. 

Mike Wuerthele said:

crowley said:

I'll believe it when I see it.  Has the distinct whiff of bullshit.

I have big, big concerns about bandwidth on this entire concept.

Exactly. So maybe TB3 feeds the first GPU ok enough. But then this is saying you could stack another on top, and another? So the first connection would have to carry not only its own bandwidth, but the bandwidth for the next two. 

TB3 isn't enough for that. Maybe it'll be a more direct PCI-E (rather than the limited PCI-E lanes of TB3) instead...Assuming there is any merit to this at all, as Talosive seems like an odd place for high profile leaks. 

And rely on Apple to update those modules as new chips come along? 

Ehh...

I was sold, that price is a bit higher than I expected though. I guess titanium is expensive though.