Mac OS X - External Graphics Cards - Houdini Support

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Hello guys,

I have a question. Asked the Houdini support, but I didn't get an answer.

I use an iMAC in the office for Houdini. I use a Radeon Pro 580 8 GB but since Houdini 18.0.499 suddenly I get frequently crashes for the most simplest viewport stuff like the new Bevel widgets.
The support now told me, that Houdini doesn't support my Graphicscard anymore. The new list is - I haven't see that list before ... like said, works in 18.0.499, but not after that.

> Supported OSX Graphics Cards
>     • NVIDIA Quadro K5000
>     • AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64
>     • AMD FirePro D700
>     • AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB
 

As I want to stay on Mac and the time for buying a new Mac seems doesn't seem right, I hope that maybe one of you have a working solution for that - I hope, I am not the last Mac user ;-)

I am thinking about an external Graphicscard ( Radeon Pro 5700XT ) on Mac OS 10.15 in a Sonnet GFX Breakaway Box.
To make it clear, it's not about GPU rendering, it's about a working Houdini Viewport ....

Any experience with that?

Thanks a lot,

Helge