does your statement hold up at the price point? These seem amazing at the price. if you want intel, you pay more (intel tax) for less performance, but you do get the multiple display support. Personally, I have never used more than 1 external display plus my laptop display, so meh!
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M1 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini Not Compatible With eGPUs
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then go with your cheap dell. These are way faster, and pretty attractive at the price points.
yah, geekbench 5 score of 7220 (faster than - holy crap, that's fast). Such a dud
Well I kind of have no choice in that regard. My employer decides on my work laptop. At home I use a 15" MBP, and based on what was released today, I don't have high hopes for Apple silicon 16" MBPs.
If it's so powerful, why can it only handle one monitor? Guess we've got a Ferrari with a missing axle here.
but you checked the graphics specs on the M1, right? they are not some lame intel chips with crappy graphics that need the eGPU just to get by. It will be interesting to see how these stack up against Intels latest super duper (we call it super duper graphics) graphics due out soon.
So you are saying 98% of the flagship Windows machines sold over the last year are 5 year old tech?
Of course it holds up because the base 13" Intel MBP supported dual external for the same price.
Update: Apple has confirmed to TechCrunchthat the M1 Macs do not support eGPUs.
I'm much more interested in seeing how they stack up against discrete AMD mobile GPU's. There's no way that they can touch eGPU performance though.
In matters like this, I tend to trust the company's website over an "Apple spokesperson".
Websites are typically written/reviewed by product specialists, then also by legal (who are usually sticklers for accuracy, preferring omission over potential false inclusion).
Hope they come out with a Mac Mini Pro, but honestly, they should just make the Mini a "pro" model to begin with. Tim Cook is one hell of a stingy guy
Yes it does, all MacBook Pro models from that year supported two external displays. It’s quite ludicrous if they can’t support two external displays with this state of the art system on chip thats soooo much more powerful than anything we’ve seen before
I will be back on the mac 'pro' train when I have full visibility accross the hardware and software.
In the meantime happy to look at the Air for home, and keep the business on Windows.
However I must say this M1 chip is very promising
Intel UHD Graphics 630 in Mac Mini 2018: 3.150 GPixel/s, 25.20 GTexel/s, FP32 403.2 GFLOPS
M1 Mac Mini 2020: 41 GPixel/s, 82 GTexel/s, FP32 2.6 TFLOPS
A12Z FP32 1.1 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro 560X 2.056 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro 5300M 3.2 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro 5300 4.2 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro 580X 5.530 TFLOPS
I do, and it’s my favorite thing about thunderbolt. I have a 2016 13-inch MBP I can easily travel with but when I’m at home (which is most of the time lately) I can use a powerful GPU which makes my Mac run cooler and let’s me run apps and games I otherwise couldn’t run well. I also have the freedom to upgrade my graphics card at any time, which you can’t do with integrated graphics.
I know I’m likely in the minority, but the lack of eGPU support for ARM Macs is really disappointing, especially after Apple spent the time to add native support for eGPUs in macOS for Intel Macs.
This is the same company selling computers w 8gb ram, so isn't too surprising to see us rocking like its 2010
Cool. Yeah, that would be disappointing. I'm very interested to see how they handle graphics on the more capable machines with Apple silicon. Maybe more time will allow them to implement eGPUs with the 4-port models. Since all of the machines launched today use integrated gfx, I'm wondering if they just didn't have enough time to hammer out graphics card compatibility yet.
Let’s judge this when the benchmarks are out. It’s just too early to tell if this is a dealbreaker.
I suspect that Apple have data that tells them that
1 Not many people use eGPUs on their notebooks and
2 That their own integrated graphics meet the needs (or surpass them) of the eGPUs that people did use.
I suspect that Apple have data that tells them that
1 Not many people use eGPUs on their notebooks and
2 That their own integrated graphics meet the needs (or surpass them) of the eGPUs that people did use.
E-GPU supported videocards that are 2-5-10X faster than the M1 GPU, plus they supported 8-16GB of dedicated video memory. The new machines are limited to 8Gb or 16GB of total memory, so no, they didn't stop the support because the integrated GPU was better for everyone.