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If I'm reading you right you're thinking the Mac is a G5. It's the later mid 2010 these grater which I think was no longer a G5 because that referred to the IBM chip?!?
I've got the same machine Gewurst is selling and it has thunderbolt so I'm guessing it would be supported but that may not be the case for GPUs
Airhead
Sorry it should have occurred to me that you’d already considered this.
I am so tempted by this just to futureproof myself against Catalina and no more Nvidia support from Apple. My hatred for the T2 chip architecture is already well documented upthread. Basically I’m in the same boat as Chris, but I’m more attached to CUDA support as working occasionally with tensorflow.
The only issue is my current GPU (running off a 2013 MacBook Pro) is watercooled and I don’t think there’s space for the additional fan in this case, right? It’s currently housed in an eGPU case but that needs thunderbolt, which the G5 doesn’t support. So I’d have to buy another GPU unless anyone has any suggestions. If I can overcome the GPU challenge I’ll take it.