Maybe the RX 570 can give a tiny bit more and the rest will be overkill. My gut feeling is that the Radeon RX 560 already is powerful enough for the 8 Gb/s bandwidth. No, new software is not the discussion here, please. The upgrade will / would cost around $ 300, the same I would have to pay for Capture 1 for instance. Pretty easy to let it work with an eGPU, especially when there is no other discrete card inside of the machine, like some / most of the 15” MBPs.Īpple’s Aperture will not run on Apple silicon, and therefore I will optimize my 2012 workhorse to the max.

I also have seen two YouTube videos with the same / similar computer I have. I only hope that someone is able to do the mathematics. Thank you, but I am not looking for the user experience here. If you decide you must continue and you do not receive a good answer here

You can attempt it, but go in knowing that it is unsupported with no official retail solutions available since they are all built around Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 1 eGPUs are well outside the norm. And the same 15% penalty for Thunderbolt 2 and 3 as well, as far as I remember. You will spend a total amount of money for an eGPU enclosure and graphics card that will approach the cost of simply buying a new M1 Mac…which will probably beat every card on that list. You will spend hours finding the right hacks, and on troubleshooting if the unsupported configuration does not work right. They will know the special hacks needed to get it to work, and if any performance increase is worth doing. If you decide you must continue and you do not receive a good answer here, better places for you to look are:īoth of those forums have users with actual experience building Thunderbolt 1 eGPU systems. I think it’s around 15% which would give you only 7 or 8 gigabits/second effective bandwidth. Remember there is overhead involved that costs a performance penalty even if not returning to the internal mointor. When the eGPU support was finalized, only Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps) was supported Apple decided that the beta test period revealed that Thunderbolt 2 did not deliver a good enough experience. They started with Thunderbolt 2 and 3 during the beta period. When Apple started adding official macOS support for eGPUs, they did not include Thunderbolt 1.

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