Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and eGPU support

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Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and eGPU support

ok, so I was using a Akitio EGPU on my older Mac, well I just bought a brand new M4 MacBook Pro, love it, but would like to use my egpu box with 3 monitors for 3D modeling/graphic. I found that Apple Silicon does not, and has not supported egpu's from the first M1 unit.

I know there's only a few of us that actually rely on these egpu's, and we love our mac's, but just need that added graphic support of an independent graphics card, this option was available in the past, although limited, why not know. I've stuck with Mac since my first Powerbook 145 greyscale with a trackball, so I remember a time when things had to be cracked, hacked, chipped, and/or jailbroken just to get something you needed working, I thought those day were in the past, they were for me.

Now I find myself looking for a work around to get this egpu working, so if anybody out there knows a way??? just saying, drop me a line, help an old Mac addict out.

Thanks all

MacBook Pro (M4)

Posted on Feb 1, 2025 11:54 PM

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Rudegar

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Feb 2, 2025 01:40 AM in response to G.Thomas

think the whole system on a chip that the mX cpus use would make it unfit for external video cards

even if it could be made to work in theory it would require system level operating system changes

suppose you can reach out to apple to try and make it a thing

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Feb 2, 2025 08:53 AM in response to Rudegar

You are correct, I’ve been with apple through the dark ages, Mac users, in the past, had little to no support from venders, I’ve seen apple chips go from Motorola to intel, and now apple, with every change there was hacks (unofficial) to make stuff work. If we needed a printer, a modem, a cd/dvd rom even graphics cards there was a hack to make it work **** there was hacks to over clock the computers themselves .i think, for me, the worst part is the computer recognizes the box, can even charge from it, so it can run the hardware, just not the graphics card. I’m to old to be out here on these threads looking for unofficial solutions, but I guess I have to try going down some dark internet allies and try not to get got.

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Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and eGPU support

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