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The ANIMAIONIC Kickstarter has a goal to raise $654,947 by pre-selling the ANIMAIONIC at discounted super early bird, and early bird pricing as well as a package including two RX5700XT GPU cards and four 2TB SSD drives. Lastly the docking station features an integrated SSD card reader, as well as Thunderbolt 3 port, Ethernet, 2x USB and audio. Four M.2 SSD slots can add up to 8TB of super fast NVME SSD storage.
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Where the Mac Mini falls short is GPU power, and that’s exactly where ANIMAIONIC steps in.Ī dual Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU equipped 6-Core Mac Mini with 32GB RAM beats out the iMac Pro and previous generation 20 Mac Pro’s in the Luxmark score, and is almost neck and neck with the Vega 64 equipped iMac Pro in the GFXBench score.ĪNIMAIONIC adds two PCIe slots that can be used to add any GPU’s compatible with MacOS Catalina.
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This combination is sufficient as a core for many professional post production tasks and resource intensive software.
The Mac Mini can be configured with a 6-Core i7 CPU and up to 64GB RAM. However, ANIMAIONIC offers this expandability in a compact form factor without the extra boxes and cable mess. It’s also possible to add SSD storage, and all of these attach via Thunderbolt 3. There are existing external eGPU solutions such as the Blackmagic Design eGPU and the Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box, and Breakaway Puck.
ANIMAIONIC is an innovative docking station for the Mac Mini, effectively turning it into a viable alternative to the Mac Pro, for some users at least.ĪNIMAIONIC is currently on Kickstarter and looks like a promising solution for post professionals on a budget.
However, by virtue of its size and integration, it doesn’t have the graphics power or storage flexibility of a larger workstation. The Mac Mini packs a lot of performance into a tiny chassis. ANIMAIONIC is a docking station for the Mac Mini that adds support for two GPU’s, four SSD’s and a SD card reader.