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FWIW, I am partial to eGPUs not for laptop gaming but for space. I want to write cuda kernels at home but I dont want a big tower. I have a Minisforum mini-pc t
by zer0zzz 5mo ago
FWIW, I am partial to eGPUs not for laptop gaming but for space. I want to write cuda kernels at home but I dont want a big tower. I have a Minisforum mini-pc the size of an M4 Mac Mini attached to one of those egpu enclosures and the whole setup was pretty easy and sits on my desk nicely.
- traderj0e 5mo agoYeah the desire makes sense. The Macs are very nice hardware. You can get a mobo/case that's not much larger than the GPU itself, but it's still clunky. It's just, unfortunately eGPUs are unlikely to become more than a curiosity.
- zer0zzz 5mo agoI am definitely enjoying mine, but I've found for what I do some of the hosted kernel writing tools are easier to deal with. I actually had to do a ton of work arounds for my tb5 egpu on Linux recently for it to not drop off the pci bus every ~48 hours.