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Popular 3DMark cross-platform benchmark tool now available for macOS

3DMark for macOS app.

It was only a few days ago that we broke the news about Valve making available a new Steam Client Beta with native Apple Silicon support for testing, a move that breaks the multi-year streak of using a clunky web UI for its macOS app, and today, we’re excited to share that a very popular benchmark tool available from Steam is now compatible with macOS.

Lack of eGPU support in M1 Macs may only be temporary

Mac with eGPU

As iDownloadBlog reported a few days ago, the new Apple Silicon-powered M1 Macs do not support external GPUs (eGPU), but that could be a temporary hiccup. That's because macOS Big Sur has bee discovered to detect a connected eGPU over Thunderbolt 3, although it's not exposed to the user or actually accessible for compute and graphics tasks.