Bizonbox 2 (external Graphics Card For Mac
The Apple MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMac only offer Intel Iris integrated, mobile, and/or underpowered discrete graphics cards build to order options. To harness the power of desktop-class NVIDIA GTX graphics cards you’ll need an external solution (eGPU Dock). Graphics cards cannot be installed in Macintosh computers due to the limitation of Apple’s design language for their laptop and desktop computers. BizonBOX external GPU Dock is packaged with a powerful 200 W or 400 W power supply, PCIe power connectors, ventilated chassis, and detailed installation guide and customer support. It’s a ‘plug-and-play’ eGPU that requires little setup time. Case with cooling Presenting External graphics card (eGPU) for Apple MacBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, iMac. Get up 10X Boost with eGPU.
BizonBOX eGFX USB-C external graphics dock allows you to get a great performance improvement in most professional applications (DaVinci, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, After Effects), games (Battlefield, GTA, Witcher, Overwatch, DOOM, Fallout), VR. Prepare your Mac to handle the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift. It's the most compact external GPU on the market for your MacBook with premium design comparing to Razer Core, Akitio Node or Thunder2, Thunder3 DIY eGPU.
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Yes I have a BizonBox 3 with a NVIDIA GTX TITAN X, 12 GB. After talking to the support team of BizonBox telling them that I only have thunderbolt 2 connections on my MacBook Pro and if the thunderbolt 3 box works with an adapter they said yes. So I bought this Adapter they have suggested. So first: Yes this box definitely boosts the performance of your MacBook Pro or your MacPro. For example using the shader without the box connected to my MacBook Pro it stutters quite much when using it with full hd resolution, after connecting the Bizon Box and setting the resolution to 4k the stuttering was hardly visible. Second: It is not just plug and play.
External Graphics Card For Mac Thunderbolt 2
Depending on your MacBook Pro model it can be a pain. Here is the story with my MacBook Pro, that uses the Thunderbolt 3 (USB‑C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter that may be part of the problem (if you are using the thunderbolt adapter you have to install Sierra, TB3-TB2 supports only Sierra.) I cannot start the MacBookPro with the BizonBox connected, it does something but the screen stays black. So what I have to do is, disconnect the BizonBox start the MacBookPro and as soon as I see the apple logo connect the BizonBox, if I wait a bit to long the BizonBox will not be recognised from the Mac. If I connect after the starting chime but before the Apple logo the screen stays black. This is not really ideal when you have to make a restart during shows or rehearsals, and especially if you are not there and some assistant has to run the show.
Different story using the MacPro with Thunderbolt 3 (USB‑C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, you just have to use thunderbolt port 5 or 6 for the BizonBox and you have to. But I had to get an extra terminal command form the support team for the old MacPro so it is visible for the activation process. To summarize all, you get everything working at the end but depending on your Mac model you need to contact the support team to get everything working. I can imagine having the newest MacBook Pro with no extra thunderbolt adapter could work out of the Box. In general, even with thunderbolt 3, the thunderbolt connection sped is substantially lower than the PCIe16x connection, and much much slower than the interconnects on the GFX card.
In this case moving data to and from the card is an issue. If you are uploading vertexes and doing calculations on the card you may not notice so much, however uploading video frames is another thing and can benefit a lot from the PCIe speed. Apple are deliberately blocking native EGPU support so every kind of EGPU for OSX needs some kind of hack for the moment. Having said that, I saw some tests and comparisons that suggest you get 70-80% of the cards power in thunderbolt 3 vs PCIe 3.0 16x. Obviously this is reduced for thunderbolt 2.