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andy_ppp ◴[30 Oct 25 21:38 UTC] No.45765690[source]▶
Apple could substantially eat into Nvidia’s AI lunch if they really tried, honestly Macs are fast enough… my guess is by the time M6 is coming out they will have external GPUs available for both the data centre and home use. If I was them I’d already be taking orders, power requirements alone even if they aren’t as fast 2 nodes ahead would make their offering sensational.
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reaperducer ◴[30 Oct 25 21:45 UTC] No.45765761[source]▶
by the time M6 is coming out they will have external GPUs available for both the data centre and home use.

I thought there were already external GPUs for Macs. Since before COVID, IIRC.

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larkost ◴[30 Oct 25 22:09 UTC] No.45765986[source]▶
There were eGPUs for Macs, but only the Intel ones. To my knowledge there are no drivers for eGPUs for Apple Silicon. My guess is that without Apple's involvement it would be near-impossible to get graphics accelerators working.

In theory you could make things work for some sort of computational acceleration (e.g.: AI, or some OpenCL work), but I am not sure that that market is really worth all of the work it would take. For those sorts of things it is probably a lot easier to setup an external (Linux) box, and send the work over.

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