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Nvidia Debuts New High-End Titan Xp Graphics Card With Mac Support
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Great points.
I'ts not the be all end all, and yes, there will be some performance loss (in some cases unmeasurable).
But for a semi casual gamer, who is looking to have a single device that is portable, but competent gaming at home, thunderbolt is a great way of achieving that.
Anyone who is an FPS junky and looking for best performance from their hardware should be building a dedicated computer anyways.
Oh, cool. Well, the solution I came up with based on your super helpful tutelage is that 12 FLOPS is a perfectly valid number of FLOPS for a modern computer. I just made it up, since you didn't provide any sources or really any information at all.
I think I'm more excited about Pascal drivers for macOS than the card re-re-release of a TitanXP.
Seeing all these price, it make me feel like only millionaires can use Mac Pro.
Actually no they don't!
Did you read the statement yesteday from Craig and Phil?
iMac "Plus" let's call it, can and most likely WILL use an authorized & supported eGPU solution ... similar to this TitanXP card. How Apple will have it boost internal LCD performance is something I'd like to see but for external then it's good to go.
Users of MBPro (non and touchbar) have begun to do this already yet bootup is only Windows supported and performance is on the internal screen but via hosted Windows OS. not sure about Mac OS support.
a new Late 2018 Mac will be able to do this as well.
Keep in small there is no need for a HUGE 2014 Mac Pro type design.
Power consumption is much lower (only the Video card demands so much now)
NVM PCIe cards or classic SATA III SSD's are best: performance & least power consumption & space volume is at a minimum = more expansion in least amount of space, less HEAT and thus fans!
But sure Apple better bring back the Mac Pro fans and full on users.
The problem with eGPUs is that like most Thunderbolt peripherals, the chassis is really expensive––Razer's Core is $500. If Apple rolls their own It'd be even more so. I have a 2016 MBP and I'd love to ditch my gaming PC, but not at that price.
Curious why are you looking at the Razer's Core as a benchmark on pricing?
AKiTiO Node and others are available at almost half the US cost (internataional business/markets so let's all agree to the international pricing denomination agreed by nations).
This site has led the way for eGPU on MBP systems since the getgo.
https://egpu.io/
AKiTiO Node’s SFX PSU with custom power cables (one 6-pin and two 6+2-pin PCIe)
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Curious why are you looking at the Razer's Core as a benchmark on pricing?
ATIKO and others are available at almost half the US cost (internataional business/markets so let's all agree to the international pricing denomination agreed by nations).
This site has led the way for eGPU on MBP systems since the getgo.
https://egpu.io/
AKiTiO Node’s SFX PSU with custom power cables (one 6-pin and two 6+2-pin PCIe)
NVIDIA will release Pascal webdriver next week
https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/06/nvidia-titan-xp-beta-pascal-drivers-mac/
I don't get this announcement, since there is not a single Mac that can use this card out of the box.
I picked it because it's probably the most well known, and Razer is roughly analogous to Apple in the PC world. I hadn't heard of the AKiTiO Node, but $300 is good, I guess.
Still, if we're talking about Mac gaming here, which was the original point, I am very skeptical about eGPUs' ability to make the Mac more appealing for gaming developers. How many non-nerds are going to buy an expensive case (the equivalent of a modern console) and an expensive graphics card on top of their already expensive mac? The psychological cost is much greater, even if the cost of an xMac with a good GPU might in reality be not much different.
My classic Mac Pro can do it just fine. Furthermore NVIDIA knows their audience. I bought a Mac Edition Nvidia Card for my 2008 Mac Pro. then went on to Purchase a TItan and later a Titan X (Maxwell) for my current rig, a 2010 Mac Pro. I am on the fence as to whether I should purchase the Titan Xp so I'll wait until Mac EFI bios support is there, but once it is ready I am definitely pulling the trigger.
Metal is NOT 'based on OpenGL ES 3.0'... That's complete rubbish.
And while Metal lacked features when it was first released on iOS (and macOS) it's had many updates since then.
Feral just released F1 2016 on Mac using metal with all the shiny features tuned on.
It runs great too.
Would this mean that you could use this card or other 10 series cards as an eGPU for MacBook Pro's now with a little more ease(without all the OS fiddling and external display), and without having to install Windows through bootcamp? Tech Savy people please enlighten me!?
Nvidia today announced the launch of its latest super high-end graphics card, introducing the new Nvidia Titan Xp.
The Titan Xp, which Nvidia calls the world's post powerful graphics card, features 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gb/s, 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz, and 12 TFLOPS of processing power.
Priced at $1,200, this year's Titan card is unique because for the first time, Nvidia is making it available to Mac users with new Pascal beta drivers (also available for the entire 10-series lineup) that are set to be released during the month of April.
Earlier this week, Apple announced plans for future high-end Mac Pro machines with better graphics capabilities, so that ultra high-end cards like the Titan Xp are already offering support is a good sign. The Titan Xp could also potentially be used with older Mac Pro machines and Hackintosh machines.Housed in a die-cast aluminum body, the Titan Xp uses vapor chamber cooling technology. According to Nvidia, the graphics card offers up to three times faster performance than previous generation graphics cards, and it includes support for "next-gen VR experiences."
The Titan Xp can be purchased from the Nvidia website starting today.
Article Link: Nvidia Debuts New High-End Titan Xp Graphics Card With Mac Support
The turtle in my backyard is flopping faster.....12 FLOPS... Slower than my Mac Classic!
Depends on how you define "being based on". Metal in so far based on OpenGL ES 3.0 as they took the latter as a blueprint to decide what the former should be able to do. As a result, the feature set of the first version of Metal (on iOS) was pretty much identical to OpenGL ES's. (And yes, this feature set was (and still is) limited when compared to Vulkan, DirectX or even full OpenGL.)
On the other hand, Metal is in fact not based on OpenGL ES 3.0 in the strictest meaning of the word, as they share no code base and are technically quite different.
(I just wrote the same over at the IMG forums – so if this sounds familiar to you…)