

As it stands, Mac is no more a player in the high end space than Windows is a player in the phone space. They really need to make this a supported thing that works with more GPUs. Other questions about external GPUs? Let us know below. How to set up your Mac with an external GPU.Thankfully, you don't have to venture into the void without guidance: The eGPU.io community has put together a huge array of helpful how-tos and setup guides for interested users - I'm looking forward to using their startup guide and forums to make a Thunderbolt 3 eGPU for my MacBook Pro. In addition, should you decide to use an external GPU, there are only a handful of Thunderbolt enclosures and graphics cards with appropriate Mac drivers - you can't just pick an arbitrary graphics card you'd like to attach to your Mac.


Proceed at your own risk, here be dragons, et cetera. That's not to say you can't use an external GPU on older operating systems - only that Apple Support won't bail you out if you do something that doesn't agree with your Mac. Here's the issue: Macs won't officially support external GPUs until macOS High Sierra.
