OakRoller/SiliconWing: Running an NVIDIA RTX 3070 eGPU on Apple Silicon

An enthusiast has successfully ported NullMoth's NVIDIA driver for macOS to Apple Silicon, enabling an RTX 3070 eGPU in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure to render native Metal games and compute tasks on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro. Benchmarks show the eGPU outperforms the built-in M1 Pro GPU in demanding scenarios like 3DMark Steel Nomad, though Thunderbolt latency causes it to lag behind at lower resolutions. The project, named SiliconWing, is available on GitHub under a free noncommercial license and currently requires experimental system security adjustments. Open article →