Hi i own mac mini 2018 with big sur i am planning to speed my imovie editing can u tell me if egpu from razer core x with amd will it work properly , or not i read for most people imovie crashes when they try to use egpu ? is this fixed or not if its not can u tell me other manufacturer which egpu works best with mac mini?
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mac mini 2018 big sur and razer core x egpu will it work for imovie without crashing?
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Here's Apple's official support document regarding external graphics processors:
support.apple.com
I am using a Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box 550W + Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 + Mac mini 2018 (still running Mojave). My eGPU combo works great with iMovie, Shotcut, and DaVinci Resolve.
Best of luck trying to find one of Apple's recommended GPUs at a reasonable price right now.
Use an external graphics processor with your Mac - Apple Support
Learn how to access additional graphics performance by connecting to an external graphics processor.
I am using a Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box 550W + Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 + Mac mini 2018 (still running Mojave). My eGPU combo works great with iMovie, Shotcut, and DaVinci Resolve.
Best of luck trying to find one of Apple's recommended GPUs at a reasonable price right now.
Nothing that comes to mind.
I can fire up the hardware, run the software, get what I need to get done, then move on with my life. If it didn't I would have returned all the eGPU hardware within the normal return window for a full refund.
Anything else?
I can fire up the hardware, run the software, get what I need to get done, then move on with my life. If it didn't I would have returned all the eGPU hardware within the normal return window for a full refund.
Anything else?
I have no idea. A lot of "people on the Internet" don't know what they are talking about. Don't believe everything you read online.
Please provide links to these "people [who] claim imovie cannot be used with external gpu." I will point out that Apple makes no statement saying that iMovie will not work.
One thing I can say is that iMovie does not receive any special performance boost from an external GPU. I believe Final Cut Pro (a software package I do not own) does have some code that will take advantage of the Radeon GPU architecture.
Please provide links to these "people [who] claim imovie cannot be used with external gpu." I will point out that Apple makes no statement saying that iMovie will not work.
One thing I can say is that iMovie does not receive any special performance boost from an external GPU. I believe Final Cut Pro (a software package I do not own) does have some code that will take advantage of the Radeon GPU architecture.
