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External graphics card for mac3/3/2023 On the last show I took an AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics card and slipped it in a spare eGPU chassis loaned from the folks at PCWorld, and I watched in awe as the recently released port of Rise of the Tomb Raider suddenly looked the way it was supposed to on my 2017 15-inch MacBook Pro. Anyone who watches Apple Arcade knows I’ve been a little frustrated with the current state of Mac gaming, and an external graphics card struck me as an easy way to circumvent the limitations of Apple’s built-in processors. Beyond that, I hoped it’d allow me to break with PCs entirely, as I really only use them for gaming these days. ![]() I hoped eGPU support would be revolutionary. ![]() ![]() In layman’s terms, Apple officially supports some graphics cards that you’d normally only find in a bulky PC tower-so long as you have a separate external chassis to stick them in and a Mac with Thunderbolt 3. ![]() Folks with more coding knowledge than I have (and a greater willingness to potentially brick a $2,400 machine) have been hooking up external graphics cards to Macs for years, but the support now come bundled into macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra.
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