I wouldn’t have a problem with all of this, if Apple was a little more forthcoming in their promotion of this. But hey, it’s brand new, let’s see what happens down the road.
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Curious to add, at this point even Apple Final Cut Pro doesn’t use the eGPU for encoding videos. At the time of this review, you won’t see much in the way of gains using Photoshop and Lightroom. In the future maybe Adobe and other software companies will adopt this technology (if it takes off) and build in support for eGPU and see better performance. As such, my guess is (and purely my guess) other software manufacturers haven’t had the opportunity to test and optimize yet. Apple and Blackmagic collaborated on this device and built it together. Resolve is built using Metal and open CL so it will see nice gains. It looks like this box is setup to accelerate DiVinci Resolve (also made by Black Magic) it mainly works on metal and OpenCL. Running tests on Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC and Premiere Pro CC, I found that gains were very minuscule and in some cases it ran slower. Watch the video for specific speed tests in Lightroom, Photoshop and Premiere Pro.Ĩ5W power delivery Speed tests with Adobe CC Very nice!Īs far as this setup, it works very well, is almost silent and looks really nice. I was able to use a keyboard, mouse, 32 Tb Thunderbay TB3 raid and a Samsung 27″ 4k display and power my 2017 15″ Macbook pro from a single USB-C cable. (2016,2017 or 2018 with USB-C ports), The Mac is powered by the USB-C cable and can also use peripherals attached through USB-C or USB. In this case you get 8Gb of Vram vs 4Gb on the internal card on the faster MacBook Pro available.īasically its a Hub.
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You plug your computer into it and it used the built-in video card to speed things up. What’s an eGPU? It stands for external Graphic Processing Unit. The new MacBook Pro with 32 gig of ram (Ill be doing a review next week) and the Blackmagic eGPU. Late last week Apple dropped 2 announcements. Will the new Blackmagic eGPU announced by Apple make your apps run faster on a MacBook Pro? See the review here.