So, I have [2 x AMD Radeon WX 7100] GPU configuration right now in my 2010 cMP. I'd love to move those into a eGPU enclosure that accepts 2 x GPUs and plug it into the Mac Studio. Is this possible?
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2 x GPU + Mac Studio?
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M1 Mac's don't support eGPU's yet, if ever. No drivers.
Bummer! Looking forward to retire my cMP, but those WX 7100 are powerhouses. Was hoping to keep them around. Thank you!
most likely, yes! But if I am doing extensive rendering running on the SoC and have custom engineering tasks that I can offload to the GPU, that would be fantastic.
Just for your info:
I doubt whether the GPU of the Mac Studio M1 Ultra is faster than the Radeon in your cMP when I see these benchmarks:
I doubt whether the GPU of the Mac Studio M1 Ultra is faster than the Radeon in your cMP when I see these benchmarks:
Still waiting for actual tests / reviews.
My guess the Ultra might match the W6800X in some cases but we will see.
I still wish Apple would bring back eGPU but I am not getting my hopes up, if they don’t announce it at WWDC in june it will not happen I think.
If Apple introduce an Apple Silicon Mac Pro, I guess we can expect eGPU support. But who knows, they might step down from the higher workstation levels they aimed for with MacPro 2019?
Those cards are just the fancy pro versions of a normal Radeon RX 480 (Polaris 14nm) downclocked further.
Faster graphic cards would be VEGA 64 / FE, Radeon VII and RX 5700 XT.
A single M1 Max 32-core GPU would match them, depending on what you use them for. It also has the advantage of being a single GPU on the OS level.
The M1 Max would be faster than your current setup simply because those old Mac Pro’s use old processors that quite honestly have bad single core performance.
M1 Max 10-core CPU is much faster than X5680 (3.33GHz 6-core) or X5690 (3.46GHz 6-core) and can feed the GPU with data much faster.
Faster graphic cards would be VEGA 64 / FE, Radeon VII and RX 5700 XT.
A single M1 Max 32-core GPU would match them, depending on what you use them for. It also has the advantage of being a single GPU on the OS level.
The M1 Max would be faster than your current setup simply because those old Mac Pro’s use old processors that quite honestly have bad single core performance.
M1 Max 10-core CPU is much faster than X5680 (3.33GHz 6-core) or X5690 (3.46GHz 6-core) and can feed the GPU with data much faster.