By Darren Allan
Apple let loose with plenty of Mac goodness at WWDC yesterday, but one thing you might have missed is that as well as announcing official support for the HTC Vive and Steam VR on Mac, the company also revealed an official first-party external GPU enclosure to supercharge its computers.
This means that older MacBooks and iMacs with weaker graphics solutions (most obviously integrated GPUs) will be able to obtain the firepower to develop VR content or play virtual reality games (or indeed any games) by plugging in such a box, with no need for any workarounds whatsoever (as required by existing solutions).
Apple revealed that the next version of macOS, High Sierra – alongside its freshly revamped Metal 2 graphics tech – adds support for external GPUs via the Thunderbolt 3 port.
And the company is coming straight out with a graphics enclosure kit built around an AMD Radeon RX 580 (running off a 350W power supply) aimed at developers using the beta version of High Sierra.
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The official name of the product is the External Graphics Development Kit and it’s aimed at VR content creation (or any demanding graphics application, for that matter), with the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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