Dae

Hey Goalque, thank you for your work on the scripts! I can send over the "iMac 5K" version I got from Bizon if you email me at [email protected]

It depends, yes. Is GPU what really holds your work back? A newer Mac will get you a faster GPU, CPU, memory, maybe even disk. E.g. the SSD of MacBook Pro Retina from 2015 is 1.5–2.5 times faster than SSD of MacBook Pro Retina from 2013, and up to 4 times faster than a typical SATA 3 SSD found in Windows PCs and Macs made before 2012. (Now I'm going off-topic...) Adobe Premiere certainly does use GPU for acceleration. I can turn GPU acceleration off in Project settings and it would become unusable when loaded with 4K video footage.

Yes, I think you're correct. Thunderbolt is a patented technology created by Intel, and if you want to add a Thunderbolt port into your new device, you need to get a license or even a special part/board from Intel. I wouldn't call BizonBox a copy of AKiTiO. It is essentially a "package" that includes: AKiTiO Thunder2 enclosure; videocard, which they can install for you into the enclosure; power supply, NOT made by AKiTiO or Bizon; manual - written by Bizon - but it requires you to install open-source software developed by other people. So Bizon did not invent anything and you can certainly build it yourself if you want. I just didn't have time for that. My recommendation: save up for a faster Mac, e.g. iMac 2015. This is what we did. I don't know about Blender 3D, but Photoshop doesn't need a very fast GPU. It also depends on what effects/filters you use most often. Some filters do not benefit from a faster GPU at all.

This thread is like #1 in all Google searches for BizonBox. We're a production company and we bought the device because we needed a better GPU to accelerate DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere for playback and editing of raw 4K footage from DJI Inspire drone. It worked more or less with one of our computers, but didn't accelerate anything on our iMac 5K (biggest disappointment for us). I found the device a little tricky to use, but I understand most of its problems can be attributed to the overall state of eGPU in Mac world. I wrote a blog post with my observations and I hope someone will find it useful. http://dae.me/blog/2192/a-brief-note-on-bizonbox-2-gtx-980/