FAQ
1. What is the difference between a Sonnet Breakaway Box 350 and the Sonnet 350W enclosure included with the Apple Dev kit?
The Sonnet Breakaway in Apple Dev Kit has a different Thunderbolt firmware (25.1) than the one in regular 350W unit (25.2). It has 60W PD (as opposed to 15W) and only one 8-pin PCIe power cable (the 6-pin cable is in there but shrink-wrapped).
2. What is a safe third-party video card to get to maximize compatibility with High Sierra when it's released?
I'm kind of thinking the safe approach is to get a third party eGPU with an RX580 and run it under Sierra, with the thought that I know it will run when eGPU support goes official in roughly one year. Would that make any sense?
The safe bet is a Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB:
Exciting times guys!
Just announced at WWDC! looks like sonnet will be supplying the first officially support eGPU along with an RX580!
Woohoo it's comming!!!! 😊
MacBook Pro 15" 2017, AMD RP560
Devil Box + MSI GTX 1080Ti Gaming X
Bricked thanks to rEFInd:
MacBook Pro 15" Late 2013, GT 750M
2017 15" MacBook Pro (RP560) [7th,4C,H] + GTX 1080 Ti @ 32Gbps-TB3 (PowerColor Devil Box) + macOS 10.13.3 & Win10 [build link]
Crap, you beat me to it.
Looks like Sonnet enclosure and it's interesting that their kit is AMD-based.
MBP 15" - Mid 2017
Akitio Node
MSI GeForce GTX1060 6GB
iMacs are AMD based so makes sense. They didn't renew their nvidia license last year.
2019 15" MBP i9 32GB - Catalina 10.15.4
Asus XG Station Pro e-GPU
Gigabyte 5700 XT
Caldigit TS3+ Dock
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Exciting times guys!
Just announced at WWDC! looks like sonnet will be supplying the first officially support eGPU along with an RX580!
This is REALLY great news!!!!!
To do: Create my signature with system and expected eGPU configuration information to give context to my posts. I have no builds.
.automate-eGPU EFI ● apple_set_os.efi
Mid 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro eGPU Master Thread
2018 13" MacBook Pro [8th,4C,U] + Radeon VII @ 32Gbps-TB3 (ASUS XG Station Pro) + Win10 1809 [build link]
AMD rocks
Apple developer kits consists of Sonnet Breakaway Box and AMD RX580
To do: Create my signature with system and expected eGPU configuration information to give context to my posts. I have no builds.
.But currently the Sonnet Breakaway Box doesnt have USB hub right?