• magikmw@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Is that a pci card that has an external connector? I mean, sounds like a raiser with a cable.

    I thought the idea for egpus was to take a failry beefy ultrabooks and add a decent dedicated gpu to it.

    What am I missing here?

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      21 hours ago

      That’s what the test is, as it seems to be primarily designed for workstations that need rapid swappable GPUs, but the point of the article is that it’s a new port that could be included on things like laptops and provide the GPU at 97.7% bandwidth, basically yes a riser cable, but that’s a 50+% increase over the best available eGPU solutions for laptops, which does seem like a pretty good increase

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        18 hours ago

        Oh. I didn’t get that from a cursory look. I thought this is a final product. If it fits in smaller form factors that’s great.