Many of our users are video editors for 360 video and our developers need more RAM for their needs. We buy lots of them and we max it out with 1TB SSD and a discrete graphics card. We buy high end Macbook Pros in our company. Note also that the VII racing fan syndrome does NOT occur when connected via eGPU to the 2016 or newer MacBook Pros, but does occur on the 2013 Mac Pro.What a terrible decision. Not ideal but the 'price' for maximum performance. Our 'fix' is to dismount the VII before sleeping or shutdown. This does not occur with the Radeon RX 580 or Radeon Vega GPUs. Sleep mode causes the VII fans to go crazy. We used the Dell UP2715K.ĬAVEAT: The Radeon VII refuses to sleep when connected to a the 2015 MacBook Pro and 2017 iMac Pro via eGPU.

However, when running games like Warhammer II and Three Kingdoms, you will need to connect the VII directly to its own display using the DisplayPort. Apps like DaVinci Resolve and Blender can utilize the VII without it being connected to an external display. Since the eGPU requires a USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 connection, you will need a Thunderbolt 2 cable plus a TB2>TB3 adapter.Īfter a pause, the eGPU icon in the upper right of the Finder menu bar will indicate that the eGPU with the Radeon VII is mounted and ready. When it finishes its routine, Restart the MacBook Pro and connect the eGPU to one of its Thunderbolt 2 ports. Then launch purge-wrangler-master script in Terminal (preceeded by 'sudo') and choose the 'AMD GPUs' Patch Manager option. This has to be done by booting into Recovery Mode (Command+R) and using the Terminal utility, entering 'csrutil disable'. However, you will need to run the purge-wrangler-master script in Terminal before connecting the eGPU with an AMD GPU to the 2015 MacBook Pro.įirst make sure csrutil is disabled. No Apple EFI is needed for the VII when connected externally.

It is exciting to see what a really fast external GPU can do for the 2015 MacBook Pro. It can't use the Iris Pro so that config used CPU only. The BMW Sample Scene was rendered using only the VII GPU in two cases. The effect is rendered on the fly during looping playback. Triple Nodes of Noise Reduction were applied to the Candle Project 'Parrot' clip. We used the BATTLE benchmark with this new Metal game. The built-in 'Skaven' benchmark was used with this Metal based game.

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