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Their forums are an excellent resource when troubleshooting these type of setups. If you find yourself in the same position, with a Thunderbolt-enabled Mac and would like to add more displays than your onboard graphics can handle, try the Build Guide tool from egpu.io. Does it make task switching and general productivity a breeze? Absolutely, 100%. Now, do I really need five monitors? Hell no. With some quick cable management, here is the finished product: I returned the sixth monitor and used the cash to buy a new desk from IKEA since the six-monitor-mount was way too unstable on my previous desk. While Apple did announce official support for Thunderbolt 3 eGPU implementations, a footnote nestled deep in the High Sierra preview page declares that user support in a non-beta fashion wont be available to users until Spring 2018. After removing the sixth monitor and complying with the boot order, everything worked! And, the eGPU must be connected during a clean boot or at the login screen-no hot swapping support yet despite macOS 10.13 allowing hot removal of the eGPU.

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For my particular setup, I discovered supporting six monitors was simply not possible due to the lack of free PCIe lanes. It turns out, eGPU support is still very finicky in macOS. The new hardware arrived, I upgraded to macOS 10.13, plugged in all the monitors, and the system crashed. At this point, I also was running a three monitor setup using a bunch of Thunderbolt dongles, and so I picked up three new ACER K272HUL 27" panels. The unit I got was the eGFX Breakway Box with an included Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB. So, the development kit sold out rather quickly, but I was able to obtain one directly from Sonnet themselves. If I wanted that bag of issues, I would just build a Hackintosh! Alas, this computer is where I do all of my work and has to be stable.

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The main reason I've waited so long is that I wasn't willing to invest in a nearly five-year-old desktop, and futzing around with unofficial drivers that may or may not work in the next update.

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I planned to wait for the next Mac Pro iteration, but Apple is, unfortunately, dragging their feet-hopefully not in vain! For years, I've had this envy for a particular setup on YouTube that shows a 2013 Mac Pro hooked up to an eGPU (even before Apple provided official support). I have been waiting quite a while to achieve a native six-monitor setup on macOS. Which is super exciting when you think about how most laptops, especially those of the Apple variety, are not upgradeable regarding graphics. You may be asking yourself, "what is an eGPU?" And the answer is relatively simple it's a GPU that connects to a computer by way of PCIe lanes (typically over Thunderbolt 2 or 3). In mid-2017 Apple released official eGPU support and teamed up with Sonnet to provide a development kit, enabling developers to leverage additional GPU cores for a variety of applications (machine learning, virtual reality, generating cryptographic hashes).

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They choose how to write software for it. They directly choose what to do with their gear. IOW: I entirely disregard Oculus’ excuse making for their specs.

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I can also point out that it is possible to write more efficient code (with the expense of time and money) that could work fine with lower (within limits) specs. But the fact is that they chose to write to specific specs. Meanwhile, months ago I read about the Oculus specs.

That Apple doesn’t put the best hardware into a ‘Pro’ machine is part of the ongoing annoyance with their bad attitude toward Macs in recent years. I personally would prefer NVIDIA and consistently read about its advantages over current ATI (AMD). More developers are likely to join in with time as Apple is keen to push VR to macOS by offering an external GPU kit to their developers for such a competitive price at 599. With official support for external graphic cards by Apple. Or maybe it’s a question of who offers Apple the better deal. Apple is continuing the AMD as their choice for their GPU’s.

Maybe Apple wants to support both, supporting competition, making sure there is choice in the future. But in the most recent MBPs Apple offers an AMD (ATI) Radeon Pro 450, 455 or 460. I bought a MacBook Pro years back (Late 2013) with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M and am glad I did. I don’t know what’s up with Apple and GPUs in Macs.