Clint_Barton
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Thats awesome!
Looks like the new Akitio node supports the new MacBook pro 13in. Hopefully it will also support the 15. Will most likely get it once released. The link shows that they tested it.
https://www.akitio.com/blog/articles/akitio-thunderbolt3-devices-macbook-pro
Great to hear!
Guys, am I missing anything or you? This page says Node is incompatible with macOS, it will work in BootCamp at best or won't work at all.Thats awesome!
Guys, am I missing anything or you? This page says Node is incompatible with macOS, it will work in BootCamp at best or won't work at all.
I got the TB3-TB2 adapter this morning and can confirm eGPU is possible. It's not plug-n-play but automate-eGPU should work.
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So the Razer Core it's useless on a Mac?
Good to know.
Also one need to do some tricks to make eGPU working.
I suppose it's the same with the 15" MBP?
Guys, am I missing anything or you? This page says Node is incompatible with macOS, it will work in BootCamp at best or won't work at all.
Uselss on MacOS but works on windows under bootcamp.So the Razer Core it's useless on a Mac?
Good to know.
Also one need to do some tricks to make eGPU working.
I suppose it's the same with the 15" MBP?
- Apple says they are.so do we know for sure if the 2 tb3 ports on the base mbp 13 are full 40 gbps (individually) or not ?
I was able to install Windows 10 last night and my eGPU setup works in Windows. macOS on the other hand does not allow acceleration through the eGPU.
In the 30 minutes I was using the eGPU, battery went from 85% to 41%! Sure glad there are TWO USB-C ports.
I'll run some tests on mine (arriving tomorrow) but this does not seem inconsistent to me, based on experience with overclocking and also with analyzing throttling on the 2014 Retina iMacs.
Basically, Intel CPUs can routinely exceed their TDP (in terms of watts consumed) by 10-20% with no mandatory throttling as long as there is sufficient cooling. Since the cooling system in the 2.0GHz base system is the same one that is built to handle the faster and hotter CPUs, there's headroom there both in watts and cooling capacity.
I don't expect the 2.9GHz chip to throttle either, but this is the same scenario as the 2014 iMac, only the hottest CPUs in the same cooling setup will throttle at peak turbo frequency: the i7 did, and the i5 did not.
Lower TDP CPUs should not be regarded as more "sensitive" to heat or hard workloads, it really is just about cooling capacity. I run a few very low power servers with 6W N3150 CPUs that turbo up to their max and stay there indefinitely even though they have fanless heatsinks.
It's not, 13" non-touchbar has 1 fan and half the heatsink of 13" touchbar
where is the node $200 ? I'm seeing $300
and going to get a late 2013 8/256 2.4ghz haswell i5 13" imminently
and what would be a good graphics card to pair with it? does node need modding or do you plug in the gfx card, install drivers on windows (8.1 or 10?) boot camp and have fun at it?
why you getting a 2013 system ????
Yep, it certainly is. I wonder what temperature @ max rpm would be like? Just to have an idea of how much headroom is there.Yes I already acknowledged that (post #39, scroll down a little) but I also gave benchmark tests that show that even the single fan is overkill. On 100% CPU loads temp plateaus at 90C, power draw at 16W, fans still barely audible and zero throttling as expected.
Yep, it certainly is. I wonder what temperature @ max rpm would be like? Just to have an idea of how much headroom is there.
Yeah, you need to move the application window completely to a screen that's connected to an eGPU for it to use it. It's 100% required for 3D acceleration, for example a 3D game or benchmark in a window, but I'm not sure about OpenCL. Although members above said it works the same way.So from reading through this thread now something like the Node, or Bionz will allow me to hook up an ATI 9 series PCI-E graphics card over thunderbolt (using a 3 to 2 adapter) to a 2015 13" Macbook Pro running Sierra.
This would work out of the box on an external monitor, but have no affect on applications running on the internet monitor unless they make use of OpenCL like FCPX?
Does that sound pretty much correct? My only interest is in FCPX render times.