More hints at Big Navi Support (possibly old news)

Hey all. I’ve been searching every few days for info on on when 6000 series AMD gpu support would (or if) come through.

I know lots of people have seen the fact that a person claiming to be a dev at OTOY mentioned it would be in 10.3. Never came in the betas and many people were worried it was scrapped or that it wasn’t an actual dev when that didn’t happen.

Digging deeper, (thanks to a post that was in the Mac rumours forum) it seems there more hints from OTOY about big navi support than JUST a single dev but the CEO of OTOY himself:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JulesUrbach/status/1357584984890953729

Now, the way it’s written would suggest they not only knew support was coming, but had access to private betas where they could test it and had it working.

I mean, sometimes CEOs can be pretty disconnected from deeper inner workings and might of spoke out of turn, but to have both a CEO and a dev speak up about it separately weeks apart?

Seems to me like it’s actually pretty likely, just a matter of when.

I also suspect with this news that eGPU support eventually coming to M1’s is a little more likely than I originally thought. I know when M1’s were coming out some people thought M1’s macs didn’t have thunderbolt support support…. but that was largely just born out of assumptions. They do support thunderbolt, just not eGPU’s over thunderbolt. (Actually, maybe it’s pci-e over thunderbolt period… not just eGPU support. Not sure).

Anyway, with WWDC coming around… mounting pressure to get support in for the latest cards (especially with the Mac Pro sitting largely still for 2 years), a developer of software for professionals (OTOY) seemingly having access to private betas where they’ve claimed support…

I mean, the writing is on the wall. Pretty sure we just got to be patient and wait it out.