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What happened to external graphics cards? That seems to be the way forward to me.
by 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
What happened to external graphics cards? That seems to be the way forward to me.
- cletus 5y agoThunderbolt 3/4 max out at 40Gbps of bandwidth. PCIe 4.0 x16 (16 lanes) has a bandwidth of 32GB/s, which is 256Gbps. So external GPUs are always going to be inferior. Also, an external case incurs a lot of extra unavoidable costs. Essentially you have a mini-PC case, a TB to PCI-e bridge, a PCI-e interface and mount and possibly cooling as well. It's a nice idea and has some applications but on-chip GPUs as part of a fully-integrated SoC just makes way more sense for almost everybody.