# External nvidia question **URL:** \ **Category:** Hardware Questions\ **Created:** [December 17, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873 "2020-12-17T13:07:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/yola/32/64_2.png) [@yola](https://forum.logik.tv/u/yola)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873/1 "2020-12-17T13:07:35Z")
I know, this is maybe not a right place. but a lot of you guys is quite technicly well oriented. I have an old mac Pro (late2013) I was running on it an assistFlame. there is a 12core procesor and 64GB ram but an AMD card and I would like to upgrade it to run some 3d apps on it. I was thinking about adding an external nvidia. Any one from you knows anything about it? will it help / work / what to choose? ---
**Author:** ![val](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@val](https://forum.logik.tv/u/val)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873/2 "2020-12-18T04:55:47Z")
On mac you locked to AMD cards (at least as of today). Worth it or not - depends on app you will use. A friend of mine use Resolve on his macPro 2013 with external Radeon 5700xt in Acitio thunderbolt enclosure (2-3 times faster than internal D500). Flame should also work if you wire all your monitors to external card. ---
**Author:** ![randy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/randy/32/6122_2.png) [@randy](https://forum.logik.tv/u/randy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873/3 "2020-12-18T11:36:11Z")
Controversial, but would an M1 Mac Mini make more sense? ---
**Author:** ![yola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/yola/32/64_2.png) [@yola](https://forum.logik.tv/u/yola)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873/4 "2020-12-18T19:37:27Z")
i would like to play with VDBclouds on cinema4 for example but for this I need an gpu card. that’s why i was thinking about an egpu would it be possible on M1 you think? ---
**Author:** ![randy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/randy/32/6122_2.png) [@randy](https://forum.logik.tv/u/randy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873/5 "2020-12-18T21:16:49Z")
Whilst I don’t know if that particular app will benefit of it, my anecdotal evidence is external GPUs on older hardware typically yield less than special improvements. ---
**Author:** ![space\_monkey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/space_monkey/32/49_2.png) [@space\_monkey](https://forum.logik.tv/u/space_monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873/6 "2020-12-18T22:56:37Z")
I was reading M1 macs don’t support egpu currently, but that could obviously change down the road. ---
**Author:** ![randy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/randy/32/6122_2.png) [@randy](https://forum.logik.tv/u/randy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873/7 "2020-12-20T12:16:13Z")
You could always run boot camp, installl windows, and use any Nvidia egpu you want. ---
**Author:** ![yola](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/yola/32/64_2.png) [@yola](https://forum.logik.tv/u/yola)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/external-nvidia-question/1873/8 "2020-12-20T12:59:57Z")
that seems as a good solution 😀 👍