Interesting how Apple is charging for any technical improvement. Remember the days when computers got faster at the same price point?
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15-Inch MacBook Pro AMD Radeon Pro Vega Graphics Options Now Available to Order
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Because there are several situations where a dedicated graphics card would be helpful in my line of work.
A few examples would be Lumion 3D, Vue Infinite, Unreal Engine all would benefit greatly.
Feel bad for the folks who bought this before the new options
It is obvious that an eGPU can be massively faster if you spend the money, even at x4.
I just checked Apple.com and you can spec up the higher model 27” with a 2 TB SSD and bearing in mind this also has an 8gb card vs 4 in the 15”.
There is a really useful thread on the eGPU forums, comparing the effect that different Thunderbolt speeds (1, 2 & 3) have on GPUs in contrast to internal PCIE speed. There are a lot of factors (resolution being one) that affect performance, so the answer is 'it depends'. But it's almost safe to say, that with Thunderbolt 3 there is not a lot in it. The other factor to consider, is with a MacBook Pro you are comparing a mobile GPU inside a small enclosure that gets very hot and thermal throttles, vs an external desktop class GPU, with proper cooling.
https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/pcie-slot-dgpu-vs-thunderbolt-3-egpu-internal-display-test/
You can see now in their page how much faster is the new gpu. They say that it is 45% faster in c4d (a program that i use a lot) and concerning some reviews that have a score of 98,44fps (noteboocheck.net) in the 560x model, that means 142,73fps in vega 20. Well that is impressive for a laptop that thin. Or the 50% advantage in rise of the tomp raider. Lets wait and see if that is true...
Jesus Christ semantics police in this forum. I even opened MacTracker to make sure I indicate exactly what iMac GPU I had because I knew for a fact the people on this forum would call me out for not adding the X in M395 or some **** like that.
I own a $4,000 MacBook Pro, I don't consider SSDs to be maxed out I"m talking about Core i9 and 32GB of RAM.
Edit: thanks for the reminder, added the new iPad to my signature.
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Yeah, Nvidia makes me cough indeed. And hurl, on MacOS.
Nvidia drivers for MacOS have always been garbage compared to AMD GPU drivers. I'm so thrilled Apple has finally stopped selling Macs with Nvidia and is sticking with Radeon.
Looking forward to a review with gaming benchmarks under Windows boot camp.
Since you can get vega at the same price of polaris, would you buy me one? Because on amazon they cost 3 times more
You can extrapolate. Take the average benchmarks for the Vega 64 (the best "official" eGPU) and the benchmarks of Nvidia 1050 Ti mobile (should be similar to the new Vega Pro 20, maybe even a bit slower). I guess a factor of 2.5-3?
if Apple offer the same internal design (as i expect) this will be a hot very hot laptop and i would not recommend this since these vega are still on 14nm
Maybe Apple does power management like Kaby Lake G.
But they both share two ports from one controller (hence my two LG 5K's have to be in each side of my 15MBP), so how do they achieve four eGPU's working at full speed then?
For the professional market, lack of Nvidia support is a dealbreaker. Hence why an unprecedented number of Mac users have moved to Windows.
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But they have CUDA cores. That makes a huge difference for the pro market.
If everyone puts off buying it then there will be no feedback.
But not everyone will
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That doesn't mean diddly when it comes to software that needs CUDA enabled GPUs, such as Premiere, Octane, Redshift et al
True but if Apple really cared about their pro market, they would at least officially support it.