Supercharge your Mac: Blackmagic eGPU Review
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2018
- The Blackmagic Designs eGPU has a radeon pro 580 and is designed to improve the GPU performance of any apple computer with thunderbolt 3.
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Thanks for the review! Well put together video, your audio came in a bit quiet for me though. I'd love to see a render/export test between the MBP by itself and then with the eGPU plugged in to really see the difference it makes!
I have the LG 5K ultrafine display and have also connected a 4k monitor to it as well and this egpu runs great!! it drive them all well.
That is the info I was looking for. Thanks!
I really love your channel :)
I love your Setup
Please can you do a comparison on Blender Eevee realtime rendering engine and Cycles rendering (with and without eGPU)? I'm sure that every mac/blender user is super interested on that!
I have the orginal MacBook pro 2016 with touch bar and it only has a radeon 455 with 2gb VRAM so for me using this egpu makes a massive jump!! videos render so much quicker now with davinci resolve and with set-egpu script I can now render quickly with final cut with the egpu.
which eGPU do you recommend based on your experience, the Blackmagic or the Razor Core X? and Is the Razor quiet as the Blackmagic?
Could you disassemble it and show what's inside this pretty box please?
Thanks good video, you should compare it with the gaming box rx 580 and great razor x
Will this help with a old 2011 MacBook pro
Can you check the Mac mini? I can’t get it to display when set up with the Mac mini connected to the eGPU and the eGPU to the monitor.
Question Jack, how many games did you test? I noticed you put Fortnite and said the eGPU would cause a crash and you showed Fortnite freezing up. This is a common problem with Fortnite for PC platforms, so it might not have been the eGPU to blame but the game instead.
this is a bit late but you can use amd radeon rx580 drivers on windows and use it for games
When I was using Fortnite back then it would crash a lot but Mac OS Mojave and the new updates on fortnite make the performance better I currently have a 2017 13 inch MacBook Pro and im looking for something to game with would recommend me getting this gpu or a Alienware laptop? this is a lot cheaper but im not sure if it is worth it does anybody have any ideas on which I should purchase
could you please try it on bootcamp，and see if it works as well
How will that speed up iMac ?
so the eGPU will replace the internal on MBP even if a display is not connected to the eGPU?
Yes, from what I have seen at this point it seems application specific. Some apps seem to detect it and others don’t when there is no display connected.
I think if you on a tight budget and already invested in the 2017 15 model with the max specs minus storage, the smart thing to do is to get the eGPU only and get that significant boost. Or You can get another complete eGPU that allows you to swap out cards. Personally for me, I rather just get the BlackMagic eGPU to simply plug and play.
I'm on a macbook 15 inch fully spect out 2013 edition and I want to upgrade. Would you recommend to buy a new macbook and this eGPU or would you recommend another setup for the same money?
It’s hard to say, I would only recommend the eGPU as a solution if you really have a specific need for it. In most cases a different setup like an iMac or desktop will be more economical. That being said the performance it adds to the MacBook Pro is really solid 👍🏻
How much performance gain did you get when exporting on FCPX?!? I have heard somewhere else, that the eGPU is NOT used when exporting out of FCPX, so it puzzles me how you can get improvements there - can you please post some numbers? Thanks :)
EzzenzDK I heard the same, and waiting for good answer. It could really improve my work on FCPX if that will work
Did you try in with Majova macOS and fcx 10.4.3 and that select the egpu, it should give better performace
Pls do a gaming test
QUESTION: Have anyone else experience this BlackMagic eGPU with the 2017 15inch MacBook Pro? I literally brought the top of the line 15inch 2017 1 month ago and rather then upgrade to the 2018, I'm thinking of just getting the eGPU instead. It's much cheaper that way. And no, I don't care about it not being able to upgrade the graphic cards. I switch out MacBook every 2-3yrs anyways so I'm not worried about that.
How well does this egpu work with windows bootcamp? I am going to be using bootcamp for gaming rather than trying to game on macOS.
Brent Mifsud Doesn’t support Bootcamp at all. I think that’s the same for all eGPU’s though on a Mac though...
Can two be daisy chained together? Will FCP use both internal and external GPUs?
Technically you can connect multiple eGPUs but utilization depends on the application. fcp doesn’t use both internal and external gpus to my understanding.
Audio is too low
works with bootcamp ?
make sure your on 10.13.6 I had crashing in games until i updated and now it work fine.
PKTV does it work with 10.12.6？
no, you have to have 10.13.4 and up to have egpu support. And for this particular egpu you need 10.13.6
if u want gaming go for an xbox or ps4. want video editing go for a imac pro. want anything else get a macbook or macmini. have 3 monitors. one has a game console. ones an imac pro the other screen has ya macbook or macmini low spec. setup sorted. no issues. dont bother gaming on a mac or pc. dont bother video editing on a macbook or laptop pc.
get the system thats designed for what your doing.
Good one
Man. Just wanted to say I love e-samba but stupidisco was my fave.
how I can use this with My iMac last 2015 (thunderbolt 2) ?
It is only compatible with thunderbolt 3 machines.
but if you try with Tb3 => Tb2 Adapter?
is that works on internal display?
hi man, appreciate the motion graphics, just the video over all is too bright...maybe just me.
Apple Created a eGPU with a company (BlackMagic) that specialise in cinematography and people are testing games. Test DaVinci Resolve... or Nuke FX... can someone finally test those things with software they were build for? :D
Coz that 700 bux better be worth it...
Pesterin Pearson Games are being written (mostly) using DirectX API. Mac is OpenGL.. sure.. you can boot windows on your MacBook and play games with much better frame rate but you can’t have such a wonderful experience since it’s still just a virtualisation of a system on a system. It’s not the card that’s the problem here. It’s the MacOs itself.
Softwares I mentioned above are specifically optimised and written for the Mac, hence they will/should preform amazingly. That’s where this Mac should shine :)
Matthew Jura - it's not a virtualization of a system on a system though is it? You reboot directly into windows when installing with Bootcamp.
Just had an extensive read about it. You are right. Apple collaborated with Microsoft on this one making sure it works well. I am getting closer and closer to buying a MacBook for software development. I think this 2018 version could be the one :) So.., anyone has an explanation on why gaming sucks on this Radeon? Maybe the final ver of Mojave will be better optimised? What do you think?
10g Ethernet would be nice for 700$.
problem 1 macbooks are obscenely slow for the money. the performance to cost ratio is lagging severely against the pc ecosystem.
apple's solution another "dongle" your basically spending 3500 to get 2700 performance. why not just make the initial hardware better so we dont need your dongle card.
Play fortnite on windows boot camp, fortnite on Mac says it can run but it can’t but it can on windows boot camp
MAHAHAHAHA 700$ for 35 fps... a 1060 max q laptop (900$) score 58 fps, a full fat 1060 laptop score over 65 fps at about 1100-1300$, basically double the score of this dock+rx with half the price. If you buy a really good laptop with the same price of macbook (without counting the dock) you can afford i9+1070 max q, that score over 90 fps on the same benchmark, 3-4x performance of this shit overpriced dock.
Never buy apple products if you want performance, macbook and pro's are only good for basic video editing with final cut, that have many many limitations, for other tasks such as AI, serious video rendering (davinci or premiere), modelling, gaming, and basically other gpu's accelerated workflows