That was my understanding. I suppose the other things that would use the PCIe slots is tasks requiring churning through massive datasets, maybe ingesting media like raw audio and video feeds, maybe science/research. Things where just getting the data in and out of the computer is more limiting than the actual processing of the data.
I think that’s a pretty tiny market, but Apple wants to keep it going as much to say they have one of the most powerful desktop computers available as the actual economics.
I’m pretty sure it’s technically possible to install a GPU, but realistically there are no drivers and none of the GPU vendors are likely willing to write drivers.
The market for those drivers is really small - almost nobody would buy them.
If I recall correctly, you cannot even put GPUs in there, right? Only other pci peripherals, or did this change?
correct, no GPUs
That was my understanding. I suppose the other things that would use the PCIe slots is tasks requiring churning through massive datasets, maybe ingesting media like raw audio and video feeds, maybe science/research. Things where just getting the data in and out of the computer is more limiting than the actual processing of the data.
I think that’s a pretty tiny market, but Apple wants to keep it going as much to say they have one of the most powerful desktop computers available as the actual economics.
I’m pretty sure it’s technically possible to install a GPU, but realistically there are no drivers and none of the GPU vendors are likely willing to write drivers.
The market for those drivers is really small - almost nobody would buy them.