I never thought it wouldn't be supported since I knew that it was used in older Mac Pro's and is the desktop equivalent to the cards currently shipping with the MacBook pro's. I think its still worth the cost/effort for me, but probably not for most people.Īfter following all of the steps in the video I was surprised to learn that specific combo (the RX 480) was no longer working as of the 10.12.4 update. Nvidia Pascal would be your best bet for the most GPU performance now, given that the card you want will fit in your desired eGPU enclosure.Īt this point I have it working and I have a lot more respect for those who kept saying it wasn't supported. Check out the press release for the Titan Xp. For GPUs, Nvidia just literally announced new drivers, for macOS Sierra, for its Pascal-based GPUs. Basically, an eGPU enclosure (doesn't matter if it's based on TB3, TB2, or TB1) to macOS is no different that a hackintosh: it's un-supported hardware.Īs long as your ok with it potentially breaking at anytime, you can explore your options. This means that any update can break its functionality. The latest version of macOS (Sierra) does not have any official support for any eGPU enclosure. While it may work, it is in no way supported. I see this as a pretty reasonable option given the circumstances and I'm willing to take the risk or I could just bootcamp into windows where everything is supported and it works just fine. Supposedly the TI83 controller on the external board is supported so technically all of the individual hardware pieces (depending on the graphics card) is supported.

Options for performance mac machines at this point are building Hackingtosh, which obviously isn't supported or editing a kernel extension plist values which I guess is not supported.

Apple egpu dev kit