Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by dhruvmittal on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:28AM
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Possibly naive question but does anyone know if CUDA is supported on the new M1 macs? I think I heard on a podcast last week that eGPUs would no longer be supported, but I can't find a reference.
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Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by jsgo on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:43AM
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Well, Nvidia (outside of some really, really old hardware) isn’t supported on Mac so I’d imagine effectively M1 doesn’t support CUDA.
I would hope they didn’t kill off eGPUing Radeon cards, but I haven’t kept track of the new hardware other than M1 being really good.
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by rfoo on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:53AM
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They didn't. But there are no driver available for Radeon cards on M1, so for now it is effectively dead.
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by valuearb on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:23AM
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EGPUs aren’t supported for the M1, but Big Sur still identifies and connects to them, implying Apple may restore this feature in the future.
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by 2wrist on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:35AM
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I saw this mentioned recently that they are just missing drivers. Which this being ealy days for Apple Silicon makes sense.
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by robotnikman on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:23AM
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I think eGPUs require a thunderbolt connection, which IIRC is only supported by Intel processors
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by EwanToo on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:31AM
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The new mac's ship with USB4/Thunderbolt ports - it's now a cross-platform port (USB4 is a merger of sorts between USB and Thunderbolt)
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by leoc on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:04AM
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Apparently Thunderbolt is full of low-level x86 quirks, so getting existing devices working on ARM Macs is likely to be a punishingly heavy lift even for Apple, which seems to have barely started work. And of course Intel isn't likely to be all that co-operative. https://level1techs.com/video/can-apple-do-thoughts-armthund...
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by valuearb on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:08AM
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Apple is the developer of thunderbolt,They wrote the specifications for it and there are two thunderbolt ports on every M1 Mac
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by dreamcompiler on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:28AM
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Intel invented Thunderbolt as LightPeak. Apple developed it further in cooperation with Intel.
Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
by valuearb on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:46AM
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You are right. I forgot about LightPeak, which was designed to work over optical cables.
Apple came in when Intel decided to build a version for standardized cables, and helped Intel develop the spec (and even supplied the name).
But my point remains. Apple knows Thunderbolt as well as Intel does by this time.