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In 12 days will be out? Cant believe it!!!
I can´t wait to start using my mac pro with octane.

I was going ask why a Friday, or wonder if it’s after the next macOS update - but frankly, who cares! Thanks to the Octane X devs. Can’t wait to see more details and finally have a play!

This is all rather exciting!
Talking hardware. What would people recommend for a portable MacBook Pro 2017 set up for freelance use?
Obviously the dream is the Mac Pro stuffed full with graphics cards but for those who need to be portable? Which eGPU with which graphics cards?

Back when I had hope for sticking with my iMac Pro & dual eGPU I had two Razor Core X and RX 5700xt (Asus blower) and that worked pretty well for Davinci and when I played with ProRender. Honestly though I'd use what you have now and wait for Big Navi and a more stable release of Octane X which should come out right around the same time

By now though the 5700xt are almost sold out everywhere so if you're looking for something right now I'd get the Razor Core X and a used Radeon VII + some external display because I have no idea how anyone could use just a 15" display

There are dozens of 5700XTs on eBay.

General-purpose computing requires more stream processors and larger video memory.
Radeon VII has more advantages!

“ Apple to Reportedly Remove AMD GPU Support From macOS ARM64, Paving the Way for Custom GPUs”

https://wccftech.com/apple-to-reportedl ... stom-gpus/

Seeing that plus the uniform memory architecture has me so confused! Hopefully this will all shake out in a few years by the next Mac Pro cycle. By the sound of it Octane X will pretty much run on anything so as long as there's silicon to suck up +1000w of power for Metal I'll be happy whatever it is.

My uninformed Guess. is that its not that they will stop EGPUs and such. its that they will ditch AMD/Intel for their Integrated GPUs and then use EGPUs for discrete cards on laptops and then add in boards on mac pros