The TITAN Xp used CUDA and the Vega Frontier used OpenCL. We used Path Tracing to process the benchmark scene. WHY NVIDIA GPUS SHOULD BE A VIABLE OPTION FOR MAC USERS TEST MULE: MacBook Pro (13-inch,2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) with 3.3GHz Dual Core-i7 processor running macOS 10.13.4 (build 17E199) Internal Iris 550 - Integrated Intel Iris Graphics 550 inside the MacBook Pro feeding the LG UltraFine 5K via Thunderbolt 3 connection. This article trumpets how a 2016 MacBook Pro 13-inch Touch Bar laptop can accelerate GPU intensive apps by huge margin.ĮGPU TITAN Xp - Sonnet Technologies eGFX Breakaway Box connected to a right-side Thunderbolt 3 port with NVIDIA TITAN Xp (12G) GPU installed and connected to the Dell 5K UP2715K display with dual DP cablesĮGPU VegaF - AKiTiO Node Pro PCIe Expansion Box to Thunderbolt 3 port with the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier installed and connected directly to the Dell 5K UP2715K display with dual DP cables. Last month we trumpeted the breakthrough that enables NVIDIA GPUs to run on a 2013 Mac Pro running macOS 10.13.4. May 11th, 2018, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist
