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The writer is pretending that egpu is some sort of hidden secret that no one wants you to know about, I don’t understand why - since this is not the case - many
by mastazi 7y ago
The writer is pretending that egpu is some sort of hidden secret that no one wants you to know about, I don’t understand why - since this is not the case - many companies are actively marketing egpu solutions.
It also falsely presents egpu as a silver bullet, in particular it claims that there is no latency even when using the laptop’s built-in monitor (as opposed to an external monitor plugged into the GPU) which is absolutely not true (an external monitor will perform better).
Many reliable sources have published independent benchmarks comparing the 3 solutions (internal gpu, external gpu over internal monitor, external gpu over external monitor) you should look at the benchmarks in case you want to make up your own mind about this topic.
- pifuoweiuf983 7y agoYeah, not to mention MacOS has native support for EGPUs
- robotresearcher 7y agoQuoting the article: “Why an external monitor? While both macOS and Windows can "loopback" frames rendered by the eGPU over the cable and onto the computer's built-in monitor, operating system support for this is very recent and it introduces a nonzero bandwidth cost which can result in lower framerates as well as frames being dropped.”
- mastazi 7y agoFair point, there is another section of the article that seems to suggest otherwise, but this section that you quoted addresses it so I take my comment back.