Easing off the GT650 512MB

[InuNacho]

I just loaded up iStat Pro on my cMBP 2012 with the GT650 512MB and right away I'm noticing my VRAM is pretty much entirely eaten up by my external displays and photographic applications.
Is there some sort of way to alleviate the GPU a little? I seem to recall there being Expresscard GPUs a while back, could I Thunderbolt 1 -> Expresscard GPU?
I'm still on Sierra for legacy software so that probably limits my options.

 

[bill-p]

Ease off GPU acceleration for Lightroom. It makes more sense to use GPU acceleration for Photoshop anyways.

 

[fs454]

I just loaded up iStat Pro on my cMBP 2012 with the GT650 512MB and right away I'm noticing my VRAM is pretty much entirely eaten up by my external displays and photographic applications.
Is there some sort of way to alleviate the GPU a little? I seem to recall there being Expresscard GPUs a while back, could I Thunderbolt 1 -> Expresscard GPU?
I'm still on Sierra for legacy software so that probably limits my options.

You can technically use a TB3 eGPU enclosure and adapt it down to original Thunderbolt but it's probably not going to be cost effective for performance gained with a PS/LR workflow - not a ton of bandwidth there to make full use of a modern GPU but it may work okay. Google around for thunderbolt 1 eGPU setups and you'll find people who have run them before.

 

[InuNacho]

You can technically use a TB3 eGPU enclosure and adapt it down to original Thunderbolt but it's probably not going to be cost effective for performance gained with a PS/LR workflow - not a ton of bandwidth there to make full use of a modern GPU but it may work okay. Google around for thunderbolt 1 eGPU setups and you'll find people who have run them before.

Didn't know I could do that with Thunderbolt one, ok will do. The PS/LR combo is actually the slower lower end workflow, my Silverfast/PS workflow really pushes the VRAM pretty hard.