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[jsheard]

Apple showed a lineup of compatible PCIe cards, with a variety of accelerators and I/O hardware but conspicuously no GPUs.

https://i.imgur.com/28J1KfN.jpg

The Apple Silicon transition ended support for external GPUs, so I think it's safe to assume they won't support internal ones either.

[musicale → jsheard]

> conspicuously no GPUs

That is interesting. I wonder how hard it would be to do PCI passthrough to enable GPUs to work with Windows 11 ARM running in a VM?

I wonder if it is even possible to write a driver for an external GPU for macOS on Apple Silicon? It seems that Metal on macOS Sonoma intel still supports external GPUs.

[bee_rider → jsheard]

I guess (although, I don’t actually know, low level stuff is confusing) this is an OS thing, right? Rather than hardware. Of course since it is Apple, the concept is bundled together anyway. But I wonder if Asahi Linux could bring support?

[jmkni → jsheard]

Man I'm so out of what's going on with desktop computing lol, feeling old

Could somebody explain what these are?

[BXlnt2EachOther → jmkni]

left to right, had to search a few of them. You're probably not out of it, it's just relatively niche professional stuff. Half of them are only relevant for media professionals for example.

Sonnet card - adds storage via a couple SATA SSDs

OWC 8M2 - adds storage via up to 8 NVME drives

Avid HDX card, runs DSP for ProTools (audio)

Kona 5, video capture and I/O

Lynx E44, high-quality audio I/O

Blackmagic decklink SDI 4k - SDI video capture

ATTO high-speed ethernet card, maybe 50GbE

ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel Adapter - Storage HBA

edit to add linebreaks

[jmkni → BXlnt2EachOther]

Nice thankyou!

[mixmastamyk → jmkni]

Expansion cards, they were supported by the original PC from the 80s and even before that.

[jmkni → mixmastamyk]

I'm not that old lol, was wondering specifically what they were

[mixmastamyk → jmkni]

As you can see they're still a thing, so you could be any age from 0-60.

[0xcde4c3db → jsheard]

The product page specifically touts the Radeon Pro W6800X Duo.

[jsheard → 0xcde4c3db]

The product page hasn't been updated yet, it's still describing the Intel model.

If it were current then they'd have something newer than the years-old W6800X Duo.

[0xcde4c3db → jsheard]

Sorry, you're right. I thought I saw a mention of an M2 spec, but it must have been something else.