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What a bizarre set of complaints. What "latency" would you like to measure? It's PCI-express, the latency has to be the same as the builtin GPU to function. Th
by izacus 4y ago
What a bizarre set of complaints. What "latency" would you like to measure? It's PCI-express, the latency has to be the same as the builtin GPU to function.
The #1 eGPU is #1 because it still works reliably and well. I have one and it's a reliable product that does what it says on the tin - provides an external cradle for a GPU.
As for lack of Mac benchmarks - Apple dropped support for eGPUs, so why would they benchmark a legacy unsupported system?
- forrestthewoods 4y ago> What "latency" would you like to measure? How long from user input to pixels changing. > the latency has to be the same as the builtin GPU to function. Objectively false. A few years ago it was very common for Windows laptops with discrete Nvidia GPUs to have increased latency when using the discrete the GPU. The reason is that the frame buffer had to be copied from the discrete GPU to integrated to monitor. Now maybe this doesn’t matter and you don’t care. But I’d like to know. The fact that it’s rarely done is a serious lack of rigor IMHO. My intuition is that it varies by chassis. I’d be shocked if they’re all the exact same! eGPUs are still significantly slower than having the GPU built in. Maybe they’re bottlenecked due to the connection, I dunno. It’s something that I thought would have gotten better in the past four years. But maybe eGPUs are even an worse deal now!