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Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by na85 on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:58PM (#13720848)
The bandwidths can be found via a quick Google search. You'd need something like 8 usb c ports in parallel, and the CPU overhead would be punitive.
Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by shurcooL on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:26PM (#13721005)
What about Thunderbolt 3?
Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by jwatte on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:43PM (#13721070)
We tried a Razer Core on a MacBook but it wouldn't work.

Works great with the Razer laptops though!

(BTW, you can't even buy any Mac with a decent GPU anymore, no matter what the form factor!)

Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by xt00 on Friday February 24, 2017 @01:46AM (#13721605)
It seems like the Akitio Thunder 3 would work -- did you try that one? I guess you would need a MBP with thunderbolt 3 then.. so 2016 models from like 3 months ago then?
Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by nottorp on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:02AM (#13722413)
You can't even hackintosh a Mac with a decent GPU any more, since NVidia hasn't put out drivers for their 1xxx cards for OS X.
Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by netzone on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:42AM (#13722540)
Oh, really? Do they have any plans to?
Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by nottorp on Friday February 24, 2017 @06:37AM (#13722742)
If they are, they're not telling.

In theory the nvidia out-of-os x drivers are for people using their cards on the pre trashcan Mac Pros. In practice they allow you to make yourself a decent hackintosh desktop. Or used to. Maybe the 1xxx cards don't work on the old Mac Pros, in which case i don't think nvidia can justify continuing putting out those drivers.

Who would this hurt? Apple. Very slowly though. Most people running hackintoshes are opinion leaders wrt to tech stuff, and when they switch to Linux or Windows, Apple will lose more mind share.

Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by throwaway2048 on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:31AM (#13722993)
No (recent) offical macs are capable of installing a nvidia PCI card
Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by nottorp on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:08PM (#13726642)
Yeah but a good bunch of the pre-trashcan Mac Pros are still in service. And those do take PCI Express cards. Apparently NVidia felt it's a market worth serving, since you can still get Sierra drivers from them for anything before the 1xxx series.

Okay, the drivers are labeled "for Quadro", but they support basically everything.

Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by jolux on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:22PM (#13720985)
Even with Thunderbolt 3, running at 40Gbps full duplex?
Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by monocasa on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:59PM (#13721135)
That's about equivalent to PCIe 3.0 4x, or PCIe 2.0 8x.