INTERESTING FACTS
Do you have customers who need more than one monitor connected to a TB3 computer?
Here are the choices -very inexpensiveway without wasting two ports
and a bit a more costly solution with up to 4 x 4K displays:
•TB3 Dual Display Port adapter
connection of up to 2 x 4K and 1 x 5K
Dual DisplayPort Thunderbolt 3 adapter
TB Certified for Mac and Windows
No power adapter required - it draws power from Thunderbolt 3 port
Build in Audio support - no extra cable need it
•TB3 Dual HDMI port adapter
connection of up two 4K displays
TB Certified for Mac and Windows
No power adapter required - it draws power from Thunderbolt 3 port
Puck
GPU card already imbedded – AMD 560
You can connect up to 4 x 4K (3 HDMI and 1 DisplayPort adapter
Can be put on the back of a monitor
Target market:
Post Production
Everybodywhohas a notebook and wants to use more than one display, when they dock at thedesk
Even consumer have often two Display - verycommon
DITs,
One port people need for power so they want to use as minimal as possible TB3 ports to connect displays
Resellers - anybody whosell monitors
What kind of storage do you sell or use?
Do you need 10Gb solutions to connect to your shared storage? If yes
Important to mention:
•Sonnet has everything - Dual Port TB3/ TB2 adapters or even PCIE cards - Copper or SFP (use 10Gb chart)
•Did you know that we also have a Cool transceiver which converts SFP ports intoRJ45 inexpensive copper ports -SFP+ Transceiver(10GBASE-T)
•Mac & PC compatible
•Increased sales in the last 8 months up to 8 times
•Best quality like Small Tree, ATTO etc.
•Sonnet is the most cost effective solution - much less expensive than Small Tree 10Gb NIC cards and adapters and ATTO which will enable you to be more competitive with the Sonnet solutions
The Twin 10Gbs have been qualified with and is recommended by a number of storage vendors:
FacilisPanasas
DDP (Dynamic Drive Pool)SNS in process
TigerPromax being evaluated
BuffaloEdith Sharebeing evaluated
Small TreeQnap beingevaluated
GB Labs
Attention:SFP+ sold separately - Connection Flexibility—Choose two short-range or two long-range SFP+ transceivers plus LC fiber optical cables (all sold separately) or two SFP+ direct-attach Twinax copper cables (sold separately) to connect the Twin 10G SFP+ 10GbE adapter to your network or storage
Targetmarket for TB3 / TB2/PCiE10G SFP+
Financial Trader more IT
What is new:
Encounterperformanceissues with OS High Sierra - this applies to all 10Gbmanufacturers - it has to do with highSierra - however our support teamhas been able to solve any issues we had so far - if you come across any issues, send a message
Target market general:
* Anywhereshared storage is being sold - buyers need an adapter
* Some companies are on a budgetand prefer copper and some companies prefer Fiber
* All video post productionused Fibre solution beforeand now they like to use10GB (less expensive, better and now with
TB3bandwidth will have even more speed - can connect up 2portswith a Twin 10G
* More and more corporation upgrading theirinfostructure to 10GB like example Apple
*Particular companies who have a lot ofcompany engineering like Apple, software developer or hardware developercompanies
*Also computer aided design network companies- company which arerunning automotive,a parts manufacturer company- if you
make a lot ofmechanical parts you need a lot of design software
Resellers: anybody who sellsshared storage
Resellers: anybody who sells 10Gb SFP Switches
Resellers: anybody who sell the mostpopularswitcheslikeNetgear and Bufallo
Do you have customers who sell cameras or do you use camera ? Which kind?
S3 Series Card readers
Cfast card reader
1TB 3 slot
Bus Powered
Can open enclosure and change cable
Need to connect to TB2 computer via TB3 devise like our SxS TB3 card reader (need a devise with TB3 external power)
You can connect one to the chain of SXS readers
Dual Slots –simultaneous ingest two cards of two cards at up to 1000 MB/s
SXS card reader
2TB 3 Slot
External Power
simultaneous ingest of two cards at maximum speeds
support XQD and SDXC (adapter BUY SEPARATE)
Interesting to know: you can mix and match your S3 series card readers depending on your shooting needs- modular
Target market:
Post Production, Rental house, VIPs
Target Resellers: Any Resellers which sell Cfast card reader like theBlackmagic URSA Mini Pro (uses two in their camera)
Do you have customers who need really fast storage?
Fusion TB3 PCIe Flash Drive in stock
1TB portable m.2 Gen 3 PCIe SSD storage device with TB3
bus powered
World's Fastest Bus-Powered Portable Storage Device
Data transfer rates up to 2600 MB/s(1)to support 4K workflows
Mac & PC certified
Handheld, portable
Target market:
Post Production - scratch disk
Raw editing on set
VIPs
Do you have customers who need to connect
USB - C 3.1
or more USB 3 devises to older Mac and PC Desktops or Mac computer (via expansion chassis)
- USB-C 3.1 PCIe card
Dual-port
Supports transfer speeds of up to 960 MB/s. (USB3 only 480)
Supports USB-C bus-powered SSD, SSD RAID,hard drive devices with up to 15W (3.0A) power per port.
Why Sonnet?
regulating power to each port independently (giving each one protection from power glitches on the side by side ports.
Without this protection (such as found on an ordinary cards), connects and disconnects of one device may cause auto-disconnects of the other.
- USB3-4PM-E
Why Sonnet?
The best Mac driver for El Capitan.
- USB3-PRO-4PM-E
Why Sonnet?
The only solution with such fast performance for Mac and PC!! Each port has an individual chip and therefore you don’t have to share the bandwidth and each port gets full bandwidth.
WATCH PERFORMANCE VIDEO between the USB3 and the USB3 Pro card - amazing difference
TB3 Echo SEL & Echo SE I
Important to mention:
•Mac and PC compatible
•1 slot expansion chassis
•TB2 upgradeable to TB3
•Thunderbolt cable included
•Both fits in XMacPro and R-III Mobile Rack – our Spanish DIT Reseller test it (from the back)
•0.5 passive cable
TB3 Echo III-D & III-R
Important to mention:
3 slot chassis
Mac compatible only
Multi slot chassis have an extra bridge chip which allows electrical 8 lane and converting down to 4 lane without losing performance. This makes it possible that PCIE 2.0 cards will perform better in a TB3 chassis as in a
Echo SEL and SE1 without bridge chip.
It’s not the additional slots which are expensive, but the bridge chip and more fans to keep the cards cool together in one space. (With a bridge chip you can do a lot of things 24 lanes 2 slot of8 lanes and 1 slot of 4 lanes etc.)
TB2 Upgradeable to TB3 when product is shipping
Thunderbolt cable included –includes now a 1 meter active cable which doesn’t work with the Sonnet Thunderlock – if the
Will soon ship with TB 3 cables with thunder lock again - for active1 meter cable - will be called Thunderlock 3
Will only be Mac certified – windows computer don’t work 100% with bridge chip solutions yet there fore Intel will not certify multi slot chassis for windows. We expect windows to fix this by 2018
Are you in Audio?
For Avid HD Native and HDX (they don’t work on TB3 expansionchassisyet. Avid is working on it
USE TB2expansionchassis for Avid HD Native and HDX cards
(TB2 use SE IIalso works on TB3 computers with an Apple adapter TB3 to 2
SE3 you need to buy the TB2 board andthenit will work
Do youknowour expansionchassis? If they say yes go to eGPUproduct line)
xMacPro
Important to mention:
•No TB3 version at this moment – we have to see what Apple is doing
•One USB port in front
•Power button in front
•3 slots expansion chassis
•Avid certified (XMacPro, R-III and D-III)
•Foam protection for MacPro – secured locked- road ready
•Configure with different Mobile Rack solutions or 1 Twin 10G in the mobile rack space
•HDMI locking devise(2m HDMI cableincluded )
•5 year warranty
•Thunderbolt cable included
•Upgradable to TB3
•Hasimproved face plate with less screws & easier Dum screws in the back – since last year
•Has LED button in front which shows when computer is on (front USB port will be laminated with a blue light )
•Back new added ports: Audio Jack(can be either in or out)
All Sonnet Expansion chassis
Difference nobody else has:
•Thunderlock with Thunderbolt cable included, except D-III and R-III (ships with active 1meter cable which doesn’t fit the Thunderlock)
•Most quiet
•Variable fans
•5 year warranty 3 slots versions
•Avid certified (XMacPro, R-III TB2 and D-III TB2 )
•Upgradable to TB3 – nobody else has this
Upgradable
Apple adapter US$ 49
You can’t daisy chain nor you get a performance increase
Sonnet upgrade card US$ 149
You get performance increase
You can daisy chain
Expansion chassis Target market
ITNetworking (storage interface and network interface)
Education(MacMini with Xserve Solutions)
ProAudio
Lightingeffects
ProVideo
PostProduction
Broadcasttruck
Recordingstudios
DIT
LiveMusic recording
Electronicbillboards (Rack Mac Mini solutions)
Concert-Audio and vision production
lifeevent video
Concertwith high definition camera and they show the mixed images on the screen, audiovideo effects put on to look it fancy, all computer they have to put it in arack somewhere
Rack MacPro
Important to mention:
Important to mention:
•One USB port in front
•Power button in front
•5 year warranty
•You can add up to two Twin10G on the back. (We have a mounting kit to make it very easy to install the Twin 10G)
•Target market: Growing Software developer, virtualization with Twin 10G
Target Market
virtualisation for business / enterprise and neednetwork and server deployments
Rack Mac Mini
Accessories: BlueRay Burner or Super Drive Bracket
Do you have customers who need more GPU /graphicpower or you need more?
Important to mention:
•PC & Mac
•eGPU cards see our list on the Sonnet web page 95% of the cards work with the 350
•Works perfectly with windows see recommended PCs and other info on our product web page under windows
•If you want to use High SierramacOS 10.13.4 you need to use AMD cards. Currently, external Graphics Support is Beta and a work in progress.
•To use NVIDIA cards with MacOS -you need to be running Sierra 10.12.It’s difficult to go back once you have loaded High Sierra.
◦The forums have various procedures for using NVIDIA with macOS 10.13, but the graphics APIs have changed between macOS 10.12 and macOS 10.13, and these hacks leave external NVIDIA graphics only partially functional with macOS 10.13. We wouldn’t recommend it.
◦How to useNvidia cards on Sierra 10.12 you need following scriptegpu.ioor ask Jolanda for an installation guide.
•Why are the chassis so big?
◦Quieter – we have the quietest unit in the market
◦Space for water cooler which would make the chassis whisper quiet
•We expect Apple to disable external graphics for Thunderbolt 1 and Thunderbolt 2 Macs starting with macOS 10.13.4.
•External Graphics on BootCamp is not supported by AMD, NVIDIA, Apple or Sonnet.
TB3eGFX Breakaway box 350, 550, 650 & Puck 560, 570
•350 breakaway box– 15 watts default can only charge computer when on sleep – for people power is not important
8 + 6 pin support
•550 breakaway box-87 watts can charge MacBook Pro. Some PCs will not allow charging. If something needs less charging
it will negojateand provide charge as needed, if the devise allows it.
8+8 pin support – highest over clock cards will work
•New - 650 breakaway boxfor Vega 64 cards – ETA March 7th
◦The Breakaway Box 650 is currently the only eGPU chassis that supports AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 andAMD Radeon Pro WX 9100graphics cards
◦It’s plug andplay with the above cards
◦can simultaneously charge laptops up to 87W.
◦Each graphics card has short-term peak loads that far exceed the 375W. The "up to 375W" is only an average power consumption. Peak power consumption can be 2-3 times higher for a short time.
◦Our Breakaway Box 650 has been tested with AMD and certified for high-end AMD cards. We have a unique market position because our competitors' power supplies can not deliver the peak loads mentioned above. This is noticeable when the eGPU system fails spontaneously after some time (similar to a power failure).
What is new:
Sonnet has tested quite a lot of Adobe apps using eGPUs on a Mac. It looks like Adobe applications get only a marginal performance increase through eGPUs. As of right now, it doesn't appear to make sense investing in an eGPU for Adobe products. We know that Adobe is testing external graphics as well, so maybe we will get improvements over time as they are hopefully going to improve their software.
Thunderbolt 1 and Thunderbolt 2 machines will most likely be locked out permanently. I understand Apples decision from a technical support standpoint, they can't guarantee optimal performance with all Thunderbolt 1 and 2 machines. Maybe third party developers will find a way to unlock those machines again.
Gaming Market
If an RX580 has enough power for you
you may want to consider theRX 570 Breakaway Puck, that is almost as fast as an RX580,
•More portable
•Target market the go-to eGPUs for ultrabooks.
•See the product page for some examples of frame rates for some popular games that would be unplayable without a Puck.
•Our Pucks were also used at the Intel Extreme Masters 2017. See this shortvideo.
Professional Market - new
•New iMac Prouses the AMD Radeon Vega 64
•You can use an AMD Vega 56 with our Breakaway Box 550,or an AMD Vega 64 (or Radeon Pro WX 9100) with our Breakaway Box 650 ( ETA March 7th) and it will be almost as fast, but more cost effective
•Complete usage guidelines are here…goo.gl/BWSCxG. Note that AMD is plug-and-play - we can sendthe link
•You can usetwoBreakaway Boxes with AMD cards on the same Thunderbolt3 Mac.Some applications support multiple GPUs, and we should have benchmark results soon.
•You can add to your newiMac Pro an additional or even 2 x 64 Vega cad through the Sonnet 650 boxes - it will make it morepowerful
•You can use2 x 650 boxes withtwoVega 64 - with sameprocessingpowerand get more than an iMacpro
Geekbench OpenCL Compute Test
Measures the compute performance of your GPU from image processing to computer vision to number crunching, Geekbench 4 tests your GPU using relevant and complex challenges.(HIGHER Score = FASTER)
GRAPH LEGEND
Pro Vega 64 iMac Pro- AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 (16GB) GPU inside the 2017 iMac Pro 3.0GHz 10-Core Xeon
Pro 580 iMac 5K- AMD Radeon Pro 580 (8GB) inside the 2017 iMac Pro 5K 4.2GHz 4-Core i7
Vega 64 nMPeGPU- AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (8GB) GPU installed in Sonnet eGFX Breakaway box connected to a Thunderbolt 2 port of the 2013 Mac Pro 3.0GHz 8-Core Xeon; GPU connected directly to a Dell 5K display using dual DisplayPort cables.
Vega 64 cMP- AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (8GB) GPU installed in 2010 Mac Pro 3.33GHz 12-Core Xeon with DisplayPort of GPU connected to a Dell 5K display.
GTX 1080 TicMP- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB) GPU installed in x16 Slot 1 of 2010 Mac Pro 3.33GHz 12-Core Xeon with DisplayPort of GPU connected to a Dell 5K display.
GTX 1080 cMP- GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB) GPU installed in x16 Slot 1 of 2010 Mac Pro 3.33GHz 12-Core Xeon with DisplayPort of GPU connected to a Dell 5K display.
HD 7950 cMP- AMD Radeon HD 7950 'Mac Edition' (3GB) GPU installed in 2010 Mac Pro 3.33GHz 12-Core Xeon with mini DisplayPort of GPU connected to a Dell 5K display.
GTX 680 cMP- GeForce GTX 680 'Mac Edition' (2GB) GPU installed in x16 Slot 1 of 2010 Mac Pro 3.33GHz 12-Core Xeon with DisplayPort of GPU connected to a Dell 5K display.
Once we have access to the iMac Pro, we will do extensive benchmarking. Meanwhile, here are some "Pure GPU" benchmarks we ran with the RX Vega 64 installed in two different Mac Pros.The native High Sierra drivers for the Pro Vega in the iMac Pro open the way for the desktop version, RX Vega, to become essentially an Apple 'blessed' GPU upgrade for Mac Pro towers and (with the help of an eGPU box) Mac Pro cylinders.
DaVinci Resolve 14
Using the Candle project, we measured how fast it could playback the 117 frame video clip while applying one node of noise reduction. GPU Processing mode was set to OpenCL for all GPUs and we added CUDA processing mode for the NVIDIA GPUs.(HIGHER Frames per Second = FASTER)
Luxmark 3
This two minute OpenCL Benchmark uses the selected GPU to render the LuxBall Scene.(HIGHER KSamples per Second = FASTER)
Geekbench 4METAL Compute Test
(HIGHER Score = FASTER)
With the help of macOS 10.13.3 beta 4, we were able to add a second Vega GPU to the iMac Pro via eFX Box. We chose the Vega Frontier Edition with 16G of VRAM. Why would you need a second GPU? The graphs below should answer that question.
GRAPH LEGEND
Pro Vega 64 + Frontier- Both internal AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 (16GB) GPU and external AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (16GB) GPU are active. Frontier is in Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box (650W*) connected to the iMac Pro's Thunderbolt 3 port.
Vega Frontier- Only the external AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition (16GB) in Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box (650W*) was active.