Not only that, but you're stuck with cards from 5 years ago with current macbooks. It's a shame too because the plug and play support is better than the very best e-gpu plug and play on linux or windows.

I don't see Apple personally adding support any time soon, either. Clearly their play now is to make all hardware in house. The last thing they want is people connecting 3090s so they can have an M1 Max gaming rig. They only serve creators, and this has always been true. Damn waste if you ask me.

You could use the new AMD cards at least though right? I don't think Nvidia support will ever happen again though (I got burned by that, bought a 1060 right before they dropped Nvidia).

I'm on a RX 5700XT with my Hackintosh, and it works well.

Edit: Thinking about this more.. I bet third party GPUs are a dead end for users and Apple is planning to phase them out.

I think I'd wait to see what the Mac Pro supports before coming to that conclusion. Could be something they're still working on for that product, and then when it's working on the Apple Silicon build of macOS will be made available on laptops as well.

I guarantee you this is them finally ripping the Band-Aid of having to support _any_ outside hardware

Oh that's cool, last I checked the best AMD card you can use is a Vega 64.

Radeon 6900XT works with eGPU. But yes, intel macs only. And of course, you're not getting all 16 lanes!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208544