Mac Mini instead of iMac?

[marc_b]

my imac have a 580 (yes is decent just like the 780m was), not sure you can beat that with the thunderbolt 3 bandwidth and latency limitation.

Even with TB3 limitations any enthusiast or high end eGPU would blow iMac video cards out of the water. I don't think that's a secret, exactly.

 

[PJivan]

Even with TB3 limitations any enthusiast or high end eGPU would blow iMac video cards out of the water. I don't think that's a secret, exactly.

like what gpu? because vega 64 minus 15% is in the same ballpark...also I heard of stuttering issue with eGPU while I'm not sure of that since it was just one review mentioning it.

 

[marc_b]

like what gpu? because vega 64 minus 15% is in the same ballpark...also I heard of stuttering issue with eGPU while I'm not sure of that since it was just one review mentioning it.

I was talking about the regular iMacs with their mediocre GPUs, not about the iMac Pro. But even then you can't ever upgrade the video card inside an iMac Pro, can you?

 

[PJivan]

I was talking about the regular iMacs with their mediocre GPUs, not about the iMac Pro. But even then you can't ever upgrade the video card inside an iMac Pro, can you?

That is not what I'm saying, fastest compatible card that can be used is a vega 64, the imac gpu is a 580 so just slightly faster than a 1060.
If you remove a 15% of performance losses with thunderbolt from the current fastest usable GPU in the mac mini (a Vega64) will still be in the same ballpark of an imac with 580pro GPU