Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Installing Akitio Thunder 3 Nvidia egpu on MacBook Pro 2016 with AMD built-in gpu

Installing an egpu on a mac should straight forward except when you run into some issues like I did that made me spent more time than I wanted on this.

By following the steps in this tool it should have you up and running the Akitio box with this configuration:

https://github.com/learex/macOS-eGPU/tree/master#macos-egpush

Other scripts that might be helpful are:

https://github.com/marnovo/macOS-eGPU-CUDA-guide#step-by-step-tutorials

It would be a good idea to start a fresh installation and remove all previous drivers and solutions as well as even clearing nvram just in case (optional):

https://www.macworld.com/article/2881177/macs/how-to-reset-your-macs-nvram-pram-and-smc.html

After running the first script mentioned here, I was able to get the card recognized and running on my Mac. However, I encountered an issue when opening a window like for a browser; the screen on my laptop would go black whereas the screen in my external monitor connected to the egpu would stay on. This seem a weird issue that seemed to pertain to a configuration of some type or a glitch on the driver. The way I solved this is explain in the next post. I hope you didn't have any issues and that your were happily able to get your Akitio box working.

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