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Is it something in OSX? Is it Adobe? Is it particular eGPU's that haven't been optimized? If I had time and money I'd simply load other GPU's into my external enclosure and find out, but I have design work to do. What I would love to know is what's causing this.
There is some issue with Mac OSX, and Adobe, and maybe particular eGPUs. Turn off "Prefer external GPU" and restart Illustrator. So anyone with this issue should test this. So, even though Illustrator wasn't showing my eGPU in the Performance tab, something was causing a conflict and ruining performance. So, I unchecked the "Prefer external GPU" on my iMac, restarted Illustrator, and it ran perfectly. This meant that this issue had something to do with my eGPU or my iMac / OSX. I loaded the newest Catalina and newest Illustrator on my 6 year old Macbook Pro. Well, just like the original post, my Illustrator doesn't recognize the eGPU (shows the internal GPU in the PERFORMANCE tab) and it has a ton of lag and is just unbelievably slow. I have an external Radeon RX 5700 XT and I had set ALL of my Adobe products to "Prefer external GPU" as I wanted them to take advantage of this powerful eGPU. So, I figured out that there IS an issue with MacOS, Illustrator (and to some degree Photoshop) and eGPU's currently (although not sure if the problem is within OSX, or Adobe, or both). I have attahced the system info file from the performance section. I have ticked the use external graphic box on mac as well.
I have run several tests on the eGPU in other programs (Heaven Benchmark, Photoshop, Geekbench) and can confirm it is connected and taking load.
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Processor: 2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7ĭGPU: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MBĭisplay: Single LG UltraFine Display (5120 X 2880).
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MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
I have an eGPU to improve my systems performance I ran activity monitor when working in Illustrator and all of the load is being carried on the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and not the radeon VII. I have noticed similar latency issues with simple functions, pen tool, artboards etc. When panning around on the screen the frame rate is very low, and zoom features similar issues. I have recently come into some performance issues with Illustrator following updating my mac to Catalina.