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As mentioned in the article, several manufacturers have developed their own proprietary external GPU systems. The market might not be huge, but it definitely ex
by jdietrich 11y ago
As mentioned in the article, several manufacturers have developed their own proprietary external GPU systems. The market might not be huge, but it definitely exists.
AMD have been fairly good at providing open source software and freely licensed standards, certainly much better than Nvidia. Their adaptive frame rate technology is royalty-free, they have an MIT-licensed middleware platform for games and GPGPU programming, and they are the main backer of Vulkan.
- yohui 11y agoBut Thunderbolt 3 already exists, and both Intel and Nvidia support it. Intel does not have any discrete GPUs of their own, of course, but they did open up Thunderbolt 3 to external GPUs. Nvidia drivers have already been updated to support external GPUs over Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 3 external GPU enclosures are still rare, but products such as the Razer Core are on the way and should work with any laptop that supports Thunderbolt 3, of which there are a growing number. There should be nothing stopping AMD from supporting eGPU enclosures via Thunderbolt 3. I'm honestly perplexed why they think we need yet another competing standard.