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manmal 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work ...

But isn’t the Mac Mini the weak link in that scenario?

zozbot234 4 months ago [–]

It has way more unified memory than your typical dGPU.

manmal 4 months ago | [–]

Yes obviously. That VRAM is also slower and has weak compute attached. Loading to the external GPU will slow things down too much.

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