If you are looking to add a little extra graphical
processing power to your iMac, MacBook or new MacBook Air you might be
interested in the new Blackmagic eGPU Pro unveiled this week. The external
graphics processor features the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card and has
been designed to accelerate creative software such as DaVinci Resolve, 3D games
and VR.
The Blackmagic eGPU Pro features 8GB of HBM2 RAM,
2048-bit memory interface with 410 gigabyte per second bandwidth, and 56 discreet
compute units for up to 10.5 teraflops of processing power. Other features of the
Blackmagic eGPU Pro include support for Apple’s Metal graphics technology which
provides near-direct access to the GPU for maximising graphics and compute
performance with games and applications.
The Blackmagic eGPU Pro will be available next month
during November 2018 priced at US$ 1,199 from the official Apple Store, for more
details jump over to the Blackmagic website.
