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[Issues] eGPU on MBP #43

Closed CodeNemo closed 7 years ago

CodeNemo commented 7 years ago

Hi! May I ask some questions?

  1. Does the script (0.9.9) support R9 Nano or RX 400 Graphics Cards? You said it's in experiments and I haven't find the codenames of them in the script.
  2. I'd like to use the internal display on MBP (macOS). Can I use internal display after booting into macOS and will the eGPU do the calculations? (Someone in the forum told that an ex display is still required)

Thanks for creating such good things!

goalque commented 7 years ago

My pleasure!

1) No. As you can see in release notes, I’ve stroke out “Native support (experimental) for R9 Nano and RX 480”, because Baffin personality is currently placed in AMDRadeonX4100.kext 2) CUDA/OpenCL/Metal calculation is possible without an external monitor if the application can utilize external GPUs. Since most apps are not designed with eGPUs in mind, you should contact the developers if such a feature will be available in the future.

automate-eGPU.sh v1.0.0 will be released in the near future.

CodeNemo commented 7 years ago
  1. Will 1.0.0 support Radeon 400 GPUs? Drivers have already been existed in macOS.
  2. What about games based on OpenGL? I'm sure that eGPU can work with internal display on macOS (this can be realized on Windows) as 750M and M370X transfer the graphics back to Intel GPUs and then graphics will be output.

It's a good news to hear that! Thanks for answering! @goalque