You launch your app on this ghost display and then switch to the viewable internal display using keyboard shortcuts.Ī hardware adapter attached to your eGPU’s HDMI or DVI port is required to create a ghost display. The idea is to have a ghost external display attached to your eGPU. We have great news. You can now force the eGPU to accelerate the internal display in macOS thanks to Goalque’s instructions. This trick inspired us to replicate a similar process for macOS. One of our forum members, enjoy, showed a clever way to accelerate his MacBook Pro‘s internal display with an eGPU in Windows. The next big hurdle was to get the external graphics card to accelerate the internal display in macOS.
With the release of automate-eGPU.sh v1.0.0 script last week, eGPU for macOS has become a much easier process for all Macs with Thunderbolt connectivity.