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Imac 27 inc late 2015 External GPU

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Ransz

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May 7, 2013
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Hello

Before I'm going to sell my brand new iMac late 2015 model with radeon m395... Im wondering , Will there be an external GPU solution for the thunderbolt 3 port ( no external GPu solution supporting thunderbolt 3)? or at least use the iMac screen as a monitor for a regular windows PC ?

Is there an ETA for when either of the two might happen ?
If not , then Im about to sell my mac and buy a windows machine with a gtx 980 Ti...

Thank you
 
Ransz said:
Hello

Before I'm going to sell my brand new iMac late 2015 model with radeon m395... Im wondering , Will there be an external GPU solution for the thunderbolt 3 port ( no external GPu solution supporting thunderbolt 3)? or at least use the iMac screen as a monitor for a regular windows PC ?

Is there an ETA for when either of the two might happen ?
If not , then Im about to sell my mac and buy a windows machine with a gtx 980 Ti...

Thank you
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get the windows machine.
 
Ransz said:
Damn ;(
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I was wrong.. For some reason i thought the new imac's have thunderbolt 3... But they actually come with thunderbolt 2 ports.. Does this change any external GPU solutions for the imac?
 
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Ransz said:
I was wrong.. For some reason i thought the new imac's have thunderbolt 3... But they actually come with thunderbolt 2 ports.. Does this change any external GPU solutions for the imac?
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s. the egpu will not run at full speed. how about an xbox?
 
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Sirmausalot said:
ye

s. the egpu will not run at full speed. how about an xbox?
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There are several options.

Build a gaming PC/buy one and keep your Mac for the non gaming tasks.

Sell the iMac and get a windows machine and use it for everything.

The least expensive option right now is to buy an X-Box. I have an X-Box One and a gaming PC that doubles as a workstation in addition to my iMac. The graphics on the X-Box One are close enough at 1080P that unless you are used to having better lighting and partical effects and 60 FPS you woudn't even notice a difference. I say this in all seriousness. If you have been gaming on your Mac you will be happy enough with an X-Box. Save your pennies and don't take a bath on selling an otherwise very nice iMac.

If eGPUs do actually take off I'm sure they wil have a dual link option that allows both TB2 ports to be used to drive one graphics card at pretty much full speed.
 
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Ransz said:
I was wrong.. For some reason i thought the new imac's have thunderbolt 3... But they actually come with thunderbolt 2 ports.. Does this change any external GPU solutions for the imac?
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New external GPU solutions that come out will be Thunderbolt 3 (twice as fast).
I wouldn't bother with them under Thunderbolt 2.
 
Adam552 said:
New external GPU solutions that come out will be Thunderbolt 3 (twice as fast).
I wouldn't bother with them under Thunderbolt 2.
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but no guarantee it will work with the imac screen. still may only drive an external monitor.
 
Sirmausalot said:
but no guarantee it will work with the imac screen. still may only drive an external monitor.
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I'd probably be surprised if it did work, so yeah, I'd not wait but as others stated, build a machine or buy a PC.
 
Any idea if the 300$ upgrade from m395 to m395x on the new imac is worth it? Will mainly be playing the devision and new tomb raider games
 
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