Apple Silicon-powered Macs can now finally connect to external NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, and have already successfully run AI models.



Tiny Corp, known for its high-performance PCs such as 'tinybox,' has developed an external GPU (eGPU) driver for Macs, and it has been revealed that the driver has been approved by Apple. This will allow users to connect NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards to their Macs using a USB4-compatible eGPU dock and use them to run AI models.




Apple officially supported eGPUs in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, released in 2018. However, eGPUs were only usable on Macs with Intel processors, and Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 chip and later) could not use eGPUs.



The driver developed by tiny corp enables the use of eGPUs on Apple Silicon-based Macs, connecting NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards via USB4/Thunderbolt ports and running AI models using the tinygrad machine learning framework. Supported operating systems are macOS Monterey 12.1 and later, and supported GPUs are Ampere generation (GeForce RTX 30 series and later) for NVIDIA and RDNA 3 generation (Radeon RX 7000 series and later) for AMD. Driver documentation is available at the following link.

egpu for mac - tinygrad docs
https://docs.tinygrad.org/tinygpu/



tiny corp reports that they were able to run Qwen 3.5 27B at 18.5 tokens per second by connecting a Radeon RX 7900 XTX to a Mac mini.




There are also reports that it was possible to connect a GeForce RTX 5050 to a Mac mini equipped with an M4 chipset and run the game.




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