Speed up games on lower-end Macs with a new affordable eGPU option from Sonnet
External GPU (eGPU) back upward for your Mac became a reality thank you lot to macOS Mojave. In fact, Apple Stores convey been offering BlackMagic’s $699 Radeon Pro 580 as well as $1,199 Vega 56 eGPUs for months now. But if you’re looking for a cheaper eGPU option, the iPhone maker is directly selling Sonnet’s affordable $400 Breakaway Puck featuring Radeon RX 560 graphics.
Apple notes that the Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Puck Radeon RX 560 External GPU, every bit it’s named, is meant to speed upward graphics-intensive games on both internal as well as external displays.
It features AMD’s Radeon RX 560 graphics fleck amongst iv gigabytes of GDDR5 retentiveness as well as supports upward to iv 4K displays. Apple notes the eGPU is perfect for the novel MacBook Air as well as MacBook Pro notebooks fifty-fifty though it volition back upward whatever Thunderbolt 3 Mac.
Delivery starts Mon when the production is expected to larn on sale inwards physical stores.
From the Apple Store description:
With an AMD Radeon RX 560 graphics carte du jour inside, Sonnet’s eGFX Breakaway Puck Radeon RX 560 is an extremely-portable, high-performance, all-in-one external GPU that accelerates pop graphics-intensive games on 13-inch MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, 21.5- inch iMac or Mac mini amongst Thunderbolt 3 ports.
For GPU acceleration when you’re on the road, the Puck conveniently packs amongst your MacBook inwards a backpack or figurer bag. Thanks to the included Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps) cable that provides 60W of Power Delivery, you lot tin mail away connect the Puck to your 13-inch MacBook Air or MacBook Pro for ability as well as charging—even when non inwards use—so you lot tin mail away larn out your ability adapter behind.
The Puck isn’t all almost play—it’s likewise a multi-display graphics dock. When you lot require to expand your view, the Puck supports upward to iv 4K displays via iii DisplayPort ports as well as i HDMI ports, all connected to your Mac amongst a unmarried cable.
eGPU is a bang-up selection inwards this twenty-four hr catamenia as well as historic catamenia of sealed computers, letting your Mac notebook access additional graphics functioning past times connecting to an external graphics processor.
An eGPU volition accelerate all apps that rely on Metal, OpenGL or OpenCL, including professional person video editing apps, 3D games, VR content creation software as well as more. These things come upward inwards their ain external enclosure amongst cooling, ability render as well as a bunch of ports allowing you lot to connect your figurer to additional external monitors as well as displays.
Sonnet’s box is best suited for the novel MacBook Air, Mac mini as well as 21.5″ iMac
You tin mail away accuse your Mac notebook piece using an eGPU, role it inwards clamshell mode, connect an eGPU on the wing as well as fifty-fifty connect multiple eGPUs. To role an eGPU, your Mac must convey Thunderbolt 3 I/O as well as move macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later. While Mojave’s eGPU back upward isn’t all the same fully fleshed out, it’s consummate plenty to hold out used on an everyday basis.
For the listing of supported eGPUs inwards Mojave, run into a support document on Apple’s website.
Sonnet’s Radeon RX 560 is available via Apple or Amazon for $400 a pop. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to a greater extent than powerful version amongst AMD’s Radeon 570 GPU is on sale on Amazon for an additional $100.
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