![]() ![]() so the NVIDIA driver is worth about 10% more speed on an external display for this test, however it had no real effect on the internal display. Part.1 Finally Thunderbolt comes to the classic Mac Pro (near enough) via the Gigabyte Titan Ridge PCIe Expansion card.įollowing loading of the NVIDIA 'Web Driver' (and re-modifying the kext files since they were reset), I ran Cinebench again and now 48.32fps was returned on the external screen and 41.34fps on the MacBook screen.It is not, nor will it ever be, possible to have Thunderbolt on a. The Thunderbolt PCIe expansion cards require special chips on the logicboard/motherboard that the Mac Pro simply does not have.The bad news is the exclusion of older Thunderbolt 1 and Thunderbolt 2 Macs. April 2018 Update: Apple officially released external graphics card support to the public with 10.13.4 on March 29th, 2018.This update made external GPU functionality plug-and-play for Thunderbolt 3 Macs when paired with supported AMD eGFX. ![]() Thunderbolt 2 is slower than Thunderbolt 3, so the Thunderbolt 3 drive will not perform at full speed when connected to a Thunderbolt 2 Mac, but it should still be faster than 10 Gbps USB 3.1 gen 2 (which the Mac Pro doesn't have either but you can add it with a Thunderbolt 3 device or a Thunderbolt PCIe expansion chassis and USB 3.1 gen 2 PCIe.
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