That article is old. The drivers are fine under 10.13.2. I run a Vega 56 as an egpu. It works great, the only issue is the loud fan.
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iMac Pro Vega 56 & 64 Performance
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That article is old. The drivers are fine under 10.13.2. I run a Vega 56 as an egpu. It works great, the only issue is the loud fan.
their drivers, I have an iMac with a 780m have been flawless and let me play games the stock Apple drivers never let me play. so I don't understand where you are coming from. plus I get regular updates from them and the ability to swap between their drivers and Apple on demand.
I’ve run forums and until there are enough threads to make a sub-forum look “full”, it’s actually counter-productive to give it its own place. There’s a certain critical mass that pulls people in. Prior to that critical mass you want the iMac Pro threads to be additive to the iMac threads.
to me it needs to be kept in the mac pro forum as that it is the intended audience / buyers
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so that leaves only one very big elephant in the room, the power consumption of these cards
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so that leaves only one very big elephant in the room, the power consumption of these cards
Likely down clocked to stay within the thermal design limit of the case. Can't say I haven't seen it before. The 56 should be full speed, but probably not the 64, unless they pulled some magic on the cooling.
I forget where I read this (I think Anandtech) but iMac Pro's Vega 64 compute scores/capability match the 56 desktop card. So they must be downclocking it.
$1800 extra for the base model just cause you’re in Denmark....This is so blatant theft I have no words.
Not entirely accurate....
As for gaming, I think people need to finally just accept that gaming on apple macs sucks. Here in New Zealand gaming on a mac has for decades been considered a "why bother?" endeavour. If gaming is you prerogative just go with what works for gaming.
Apple has never ever done anything for gamers yet this whole gaming thing continues to come up.
Not entirely accurate, in the states you will pay sales tax on top of the price, in Denmark your outrageous (even by UK standards) 25% sales tax is already included so $1250 of that increase is your government, $550 extra is what you are paying and that hasn’t taken into account import taxes etc.
....Or lack of basic knowledge on how prices are regulated between countries.
Gaming in macs is fine, they work just as well as any other intel AMD based computer with same silicon. just load windows10 on bootcamp and away you go a separate gaming pc on same hardware.
It´s actually only $441 or ≈ 8.8% to cover conversion rates and fees.
You can blame Apple for a lot of things, but not socialism..
I don’t agree. It’s the most capable Mac for gaming ootb. It’s convenient to only have the single desktop computer that can be used for multiple purposes. Workflow during the day and gaming in the evening.
I don’t agree. It’s the most capable Mac for gaming ootb. It’s convenient to only have the single desktop computer that can be used for multiple purposes. Workflow during the day and gaming in the evening.
That gaming in the evening cuts into perfectly good evening work time haha, sorry just being silly.