Justin Duino / How-To Geek
Apple Silicon Macs, starting with the Apple M1 system-on-a-chip, have proven to be a revolution in personal computing. Offering amazing CPU and GPU performance in portable, low-power systems. Unfortunately, there’s one major flaw with Apple Silicon: no external GPU support.
What’s an “External” GPU?
By “external” we mean a GPU that’s not part of the Apple SoC (System-on-a-Chip). This can either be a graphics card in an external enclosure connected using a cable, a graphics card inserted into a slot on the Mac’s mainboard, or a dedicated GPU that exists as a separate processor on the mainboard. In general, an external GPU or “eGPU” strictly refers to graphics cards in an enclosure connected using a cable, but in this case we’re talking about a lack of any support for GPUs that aren’t part of the Apple Silicon chip itself.
$270.34
$399.99 Save 32%
Apple Silicon Macs Don’t Support eGPUs
When Apple debuted Silicon Macs in late 2020 with the Read Full Article Source
