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Technically it does - the Surface Book's "Performance Base" has a beefy NVIDIA GPU inside of it, while the rest of the main system, with an Intel GPU, is in the
by DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
Technically it does - the Surface Book's "Performance Base" has a beefy NVIDIA GPU inside of it, while the rest of the main system, with an Intel GPU, is in the display portion - though I don't know what interface is used between the display and the base - is it "real" hot-pluggable PCI-Express, something proprietary, or Thunderbolt?
- plttn 9y agoIt's a proprietary port, yes.
- DaiPlusPlus 9y agoBut what's the underlying electrical and signal interface?
- plttn 9y agoDocumentation is a bit vague on it, but from what I can tell the last references to it are just USB3, USB2, and DisplayPort. However I'm not sure how the GPU in my Surface Book fits into that, as on the surface according to Device Manager it's connected to a PCI bus. edit: according to a few news sources, the version of SurfaceConnect (at least on the Book) does contain PCIe lanes for the GPU.