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macOS Catalina and eGPU issues

m.fiorentino
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macOS Catalina and eGPU issues

m.fiorentino
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I cannot seem to get my eGPU to work under macOS Catalina. I have, of course, checked the "Prefer External GPU" option in the F360 app, but nothing happens. It seemed to work in macOS Mojave. Is AMD out of the picture, or am I configuring something wrong here? Any hints will be appreciated.

 

Product version: 2.0.6658

macOS version: 10.15.1

eGPU: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

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I experience the same issue.  An eGPU-SONNET eGFX Breakaway Box 550 with a Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 56 is connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port of my Mac mini.  In the Fusion 360 application Info window I checked "Prefer External GPU" option. In the Graphics  Diagnostics module of Fusion 360 however the internal Intel UHD Graphics of my Mac mini is listed but the available GPU RAM which is listed is that of the external videocard. Also, I'm pretty sure that a few days ago the external Radeon GPU was listed in the graphics diagnostics. But that's not the case anymore now. I'm wondering if Fusion 360 is supporting an external GPU and if the graphics performance of the GPU is having a substantial influence to the performance of Fusion? The GPU History window of Activity monitor ( Window > GPU History ) is hardly showing any visible response of the External videocard while rendering an object. If I don't  check the "Prefer External GPU" option the Intel UHD video isn't showing  any response at all.  Instead all 6 cores of the CPU are stretched to the limit and the rendering process is using up more than 1000% CPU. In both cases the Graphics  Diagnostics of Fusion are displaying the Intel UHD as the active graphics card and the RAM size of the external GPU.

 

Mac mini 2018 - 3,2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 - 16GB RAM - Apple 512GB SSD

eGPU-SONNET eGFX Breakaway Box 550 and Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 56

Fusion 360 product version 2.0.7029

 

 

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m.fiorentino
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Thank you for your reply!

 

I totally forgot to mention it here, but we have a more thorough thread going on here if you want to join:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-support/mac-egpu-support-broken/m-p/9167986/

 

Cheers,

:-m

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Anonymous
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Thanks, that's a very informative thread.

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