{"id":25824,"date":"2019-07-01T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25824"},"modified":"2019-07-01T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:36:47","slug":"gaming-with-a-macbook-pro-and-egpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/01\/gaming-with-a-macbook-pro-and-egpu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming With a MacBook Pro and eGPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justin.searls.co\/posts\/gaming-with-a-mac-plus-egpu\/\">Justin Searls<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/searls\/status\/1145394422852575234\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/justin.searls.co\/posts\/gaming-with-a-mac-plus-egpu\/\"><p>So, it&rsquo;s thanks to the trash can Mac Pro that in 2019, it can truthfully be said: instead of putting a beefy graphics card <em>inside<\/em> your computer, you are now able to take a top-of-the-line gaming GPU, seat it inside an external box, plug that box into your computer, and&mdash;using a single high-bandwidth cable&mdash;push the necessary instructions to render 4K games at 60 frames per second on the card before (over the very same cable!) pushing those frames back to your notebook&rsquo;s built-in monitor without introducing any perceptible latency. I&rsquo;ve seen daily evidence of this for the last month and I gotta say: it&rsquo;s pretty freakin&rsquo; cool.<\/p><p>The idea that you&rsquo;d be able to connect a GPU over a 2-meter cable and get desktop-class gaming performance out of the current crop of MacBooks Pro seems far-fetched. Even to me, as I literally play games with one. When reasonable people encounter Apple&rsquo;s marketing about eGPUs&mdash;which is only focused on creative professional workflows like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S48T-cOG0ks\"><em>modeling<\/em> VR experiences as opposed to <em>experiencing<\/em> them<\/a>&mdash;it would be unreasonable to make the logical leap to say, &ldquo;ah, yes, surely if I boot that computer into Windows, the eGPU enclosure would have the necessary drivers and the Thunderbolt 3 cable would have the necessary bandwidth to render games in real-time with an acceptable frame rate and input latency.&rdquo;<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Congratulations, you&rsquo;re now too tired to want to play any games with your now-capable-of-running-them MacBook Pro.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Searls (tweet): So, it&rsquo;s thanks to the trash can Mac Pro that in 2019, it can truthfully be said: instead of putting a beefy graphics card inside your computer, you are now able to take a top-of-the-line gaming GPU, seat it inside an external box, plug that box into your computer, and&mdash;using a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-07-01T20:36:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"6bc75402-4990-4214-a859-ef543c736ee4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-07-01T20:36:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aa8dUAkmQQhSoWe9UPHNu5A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1565,1831,418,452,30,100,1609,201,219],"class_list":["post-25824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-boot-camp","tag-egpu","tag-game","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-14","tag-thunderbolt","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25825,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25824\/revisions\/25825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}