Apple External Graphics eGPU DevKit Performance Preview (Final Cut/Xcode/Windows)

In this video we'll be having a sneak peak on how the Apple eGPU developer kit consisting of the Sonnet breakaway box and AMD Radeon RX580 is currently performing on the High Sierra Beta.

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Note, High Sierra is currently in Beta so hopefully support for this beast will improve as time goes on, but hopefully we'll learn something together in this preview.

First when plugging in the external GPU enclosure, you're prompted to log out and back in to utilise it. Final Cut Pro currently crashes on launch, to get around this however you'll need to disable the internal GPU.

PRE-TEST SETUP You can do this by disabling SIP, and modifying the files in the system folders. jonwatso from egpu.io has a nice script you can use to automatically mod the required files. You just need to first edit it with the internal GPU type of yours. Run the script, and restart your Mac for the changes to come into effect.

After restarting your MacBook display will flicker a lot and become a burden to use, so only use this step if you're planning on using an external display. This step should be unnecessary soon as the updates to the new version of Sierra or Final Cut are released, but may still be required for less mainstream applications, as it looks like supporting the enclosure might require app specific updates.

SIERRA VS HIGH SIERRA As you can see now, Final Cut now launches fine, so now it's time to measure the performance. Note, from my previous test I had noticed a 10% performance degradation between the current version of Sierra and the current Beta release of High Sierra, so we'll be also bearing this in mind for this performance test.

TEST - LOCAL NETWORK MEDIA I wanted to see if using the eGPU would speed up the rendering of projects utilising local network media. As you can see, it didn't.

TEST - BRUCEX 5K The BruceX 5k test is a project used in final cut circles to measure the rendering performance of a computer uniformly. Using the internal GPU and Sierra, my MacBook usually takes 1 minute and 30 seconds to render out this project. With the external GPU and High Sierra took 1 minute and 6 seconds. While it is 30% faster, it's...

TEST - EDITING I saw no improvement in the performance of scrubbing and local playback of 4K.

TEST - TRANSCODING Transcoding the sa ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCfE2gc2Xw