2017 27" iMac 5K (RP575) [7th,4C,K] + RX 6900 XT @ 32Gbps-TB3 (Razer Core X) + macOS 11.4  

System specs

2017 27" iMac

3,5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5

40 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Radeon Pro 575 4 GB

eGPU hardware

Razer Core X


XFX Speedster MERC 319 AMD Radeon™ RX 6900 XT Black Gaming Graphics Card with 16GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA™ 2.

Installation steps

Installed the card in the Razer Core X enclosure, the card is slightly longer than the enclosure so not able to close properly. Does not affect the general performance of the card.

Benchmarks 

147710

Metal Score

Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout for macOS x86 (64-bit)

Result Information

Upload Date	June 30th 2021, 1:24pm
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System Information

System Information
Operating System	macOS 11.4 (Build 20F71)
Model	iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017)
Model ID	iMac18,3
Motherboard	Apple Inc. Mac-BE088AF8C5EB4FA2 iMac18,3

CPU Information
Name	Intel Core i5-7600
Topology	1 Processor, 4 Cores
Identifier	GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 9
Base Frequency	3.50 GHz
Package
Codename
L1 Instruction Cache	32.0 KB x 2
L1 Data Cache	32.0 KB x 2
L2 Cache	256 KB x 2
L3 Cache	6.00 MB x 1

Memory Information
Size	40.00 GB
Transfer Rate	2400 MT/s
Type	DDR4

Metal Information
Device Name	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

 

Comments

Using the 6900xt with octane render and have seen 3x faster render times compared to 5700xt eGPU on larger interior visualisation scenes.