
It doesn't just affect that Mac Pro, but also the 2019 Mac Pro (I think with Navi graphics), the 16" MBP, and others.

The associated panic says it is due to a 'watchdog timeout' and there's a big thread about it in the Catalina forum. There's a bug in the graphics driver Apple hasn't fixed that causes an occasional freeze & restart.

The Mac Pro with D300 graphics appears to be stable in Mojave, but not in Catalina. I've had Mac minis and Mac Pros and the Pros are leagues beyond the minis. Plus the USB3 and 10gbe on the Mini is not tied to either TB3 controller so you can use 5gb of USB3 storage and 10gb of NAS storage without touching the TB3 bandwidth leaving it open for eGPU bandwidth. The Mac mini has a lot more bandwidth at its disposal. The Mac mini has two thunderbolt 3 controllers at 40gb + 4-gb = 80gb. While the 2013 MP may have three thunderbolt controllers they are thunderbolt 2 meaning 20gb + 20 gb + 2-gb = 60gb. Xeons tend to be at least a generation behind desktop processors which makes the 2013 MP a very outdated CPU today. Being a 2013 Xeon makes it that much faster to be outdated for future MacOS support vs the modern 2018 i7 in the Mac Mini. It is also a much older generation of CPU with less optimized hardware instructions. While the 12 core MP CPU may be faster than the 6 core Mac mini it isn't that much faster. You can use two eGPUs at full TB3 bandwidth and four at a limited bandwidth for each. If the aim is to use a eGPU and GPU performance is more important than the Mac mini with two TB3 controllers is the best choice. TB2 is also slower and will affect the performance more than it would on the Mac Mini. At any point in the future one could wait for the community to fix broken support if they will even be able to. bit of a hack since apple doesn't officially support thunderbolt 2 for eGPU. VGA, HDMI, and Thunderbolt 2 output supported using adapters (sold separately)įor better understanding screen actual sizes, viewport sizes, display resolution and about their density click here.While eGPU is an options it is. Up to two displays with 3840 x 2160 resolution at 60Hz

Up to two displays with 4096 x 2304 resolution at 60H One display with 5120 x 2880 resolution at 60Hz MacBook Pro 2018 (13 inch) built-in-display to support highly NATIVE resolutions upto 5K with use of thunderbolt or HDMI display devices. MacBook Pro 2018 (13 inch) supports scaled lower resolutions listed below: MacBook Pro 2018 (13 inch) has viewport size 1280 x 800 Pixels and its pixel ratio is about 2. and sum of actual pixels of any device is reffered to as "Viewport".ġ3.3" physical screen size with IPS technology and it's native resolution is 2560 x 1600 Pixels with approximately 227 PPI pixel density. The sum of pixels which are displaying on a device is called as "Screen Resolution".
