Apple’s ARM-Based Macs Won’t Support AMD Radeon GPUs

[Tsing]

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Apple recently announced that it’d be transitioning away from Intel processors for its own ARM-based chips, but that isn’t the only type of third-party hardware that’s being left behind. According to a table shown in an official WWDC20 video, Apple Silicon Macs will not support Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD graphics cards.



The future will be very interesting. macOS arm64 according to Apple removes support for AMD GPUs too, Apple GPUs all the way. pic.twitter.com/2hF8RwsO4C— Longhorn (@never_released) July 6, 2020



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[Brian_B]

I wouldn't be surprised to see AMD come back with Mac solutions. Apple didn't always support PC graphics cards anyway, back in the PPC days, but GPUs still existed for Mac back then. Apple even had their own video output cables (ADC) to go with it.

I would, however, be surprised to see nVidia come up with some Mac-proprietary products. Those two companies despise each other.

 

[Burticus]

Hey it doesn't matter, those ARM based Macs aren't going to run any games anyway. All the x86 stuff goes buh-bye when they make the change. Unless you want to play in an emulator, which isn't going to use the GPU anyway.

AMD will probably find a workaround but Apple doesn't care. Apple doesn't care about games that aren't specifically designed for/by them.

 

[Brian_B]

Apple is huge in gaming.

just not on OS X

iOS gaming revenue around $33B in 2018

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To compare, xBox gaming revenue around $11B in 2019

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[Riccochet]

Nobody wants to mobile game on a laptop or desktop.