Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU

Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU by CharlesW on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @06:29PM (#20339974)

> The eGPU method of bolting functionality onto a platform which doesn't want it is only neat on a technical level at best.

It's neat on every level. To quote the article:

> "…you are now able to take a top-of-the-line gaming GPU, seat it inside an external box, plug that box into your computer, and—using a single high-bandwidth cable—push the necessary instructions to render 4K games at 60 frames per second on the card before (over the very same cable!) pushing those frames back to your notebook's built-in monitor without introducing any perceptible latency."

I know God intended for us to use PCI cards by opening up cases and inserting them into slots on a motherboard, but it's incredibly cool to be able to just plug one in like a USB device.

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Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU by FpUser on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @07:05PM (#20340173)

It is even cooler when one considers how much those eGPU enclosures cost, never mind lack of nVidia support on those.

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Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU by owenwil on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @07:13PM (#20340214)

But "just plugging in one USB device" wasn't even what happened in this post. The amount of steps described inside literally were 10x what it takes to just build a PC, boot it, install games and play ️

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Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU by mercutio2 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @09:12PM (#20340787)

Huh? There were two steps to get macOS working.

  1) Put GPU in enclosure
  2) Plug Thunderbolt 3 cable into enclosure and MBP

Perhaps you’re referring to the novel written on how to make BootCamp Windows work with the eGPU?

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Re:Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU by owenwil on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:31AM (#20391488)

...all of which is because the drivers/config are proprietary

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