I can’t argue that extra ports might be worthwhile, although at present I have no shortage of ports available to me. However, from my use so far, I am not finding the Razer Core X & Vega 64 noisy.It's quiet. It offers ports. It looks cool. It...just...works. I am happy to pay the price. CoreX and a Vega 64? Sure. You'll save $200. But it's noisy, bland looking, and doesn't have anywhere near the ports.
I am not finding the Razer Core X & Vega 64 noisy.
I don’t doubt it, and there is a lot about it to like including lack of fan noise, form factor, ports and aesthetics. I am a tinkerer and wanted an enclosure that is upgradable in the future. The complaints about the noise of the Core X had me worried. I also don’t particularly like how it looks or its size. But thus far (granted I have only had it running since yesterday) for me the noise has been a non-issue.The BlackMagic is virtually silent though.
I love this quote "This has been tailored to run quietly" hey Apple can you put the latest GPUs your machines? No? could you put them in a GPU enclosure? No? I see, could you cripple them to run in an enclosure? yes?, we good to go
The price is just comical. They couldn’t even put a Vega 64 card in? I get eGPUs are expensive but this is silly. I hope no one buys it to send the message this is not reasonable. Go with another company like Razer or sonnet.
Extra ports that wouldn’t be needed if apple hadn’t removed them from the laptops, to begin with.It's quiet. It offers ports. It looks cool. It...just...works. I am happy to pay the price. CoreX and a Vega 64? Sure. You'll save $200. But it's noisy, bland looking, and doesn't have anywhere near the ports.
ECG, group FaceTime...do we really want to go through the list?Yeah, two products that pretty much no one is clamoring for. But of course, techie boyz are 99% of Apple's market, so yeah, this is the worst-run company ever.
No.
It's because a lot of the AI software is written in CUDA, which is nVidia-proprietary, rather than being written in the GPU-agnostic OpenCL.
I got a $350 brand new Vega 64 on Black Friday and a $300 Razer Core X. Works like a charm and I can put in an nVidia card if Apple and nVidia ever work out who is to blame for no drivers in Mojave.
$1200 for a Vega 56 is awful. And it's most likely throttled for silence.
Eh, I can't hear my Vega 56 at all unless it's doing something intensive. It doesn't have to be throttled, or at least the Sapphire brand ones are good like that. Maybe the quietest card I've owned. But the price is still excessive for what you get.$1200 for a Vega 56 is awful. And it's most likely throttled for silence.
Gaming/Render engine aren't the only reason get eGPUs. Especially on Macs. The reason many people on Macs get eGPU are for More high resolution displays. Pushing more pixels out to additional displays, RAW photo processing, Video Editing, Machine learning, 3D model generation (ie: photogrammetry workflows), etc. Yeah if you're using OpenGL for these things, nVidia probably has an advantage. However more and more Mac apps are moving towards Metal which is optimized around AMD/Radeon.People get eGPU to have Nvidia cards, not Radeon. Best render engines runs on Nvidia.
How "plug-and-play"/turn-key is it? Considering getting an eGPU for a corporate environment for a creative who needs basically a Mac Pro (so considering getting a Mac Mini and an eGPU) however if the Sonnet requires additional configuration and such, IT is probably going to give me the stink-eye.I just bought a Sonnet egpu enclosure and a Radeon 64. $800 bucks total. Better performance for 2/3rds the price.
How "plug-and-play"/turn-key is it? Considering getting an eGPU for a corporate environment for a creative who needs basically a Mac Pro (so considering getting a Mac Mini and an eGPU) however if the Sonnet requires additional configuration and such, IT is probably going to give me the stink-eye.