![]() The 2009 Mac Pro has two PCIe x 16 slots. The reason I suspect was due to the fact the the bus speed of the Thunderbolt 3 connection to the eGPU enclose is only 1/4 of a full PCIe x16 bus. Recently, I noticed that although the eGPUs allowed for my MacBook Pro to have access to a full-fledged GPU, the performance was nowhere near that of a GPU that is housed on a regular PCIe slot. Luckily for me, I have two eGPU enclosures both housing AMD RX 580 GPUs (opens in new tab). ![]() Frankly, these are fine for my purpose but note that the standard SATA connections on the motherboard of the Mac Pro would make getting a larger SSD an easy upgrade. The system came with a 160 GB SSD drive and a SATA 640 GB HDD.
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