c/games · by baatliwala@lemmy.world · 132d

External GPUs were always second best. CopprLink may change that

https://www.techspot.com/news/112062-external-gpus-always-second-best-copprlink-may-change.html

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4 Comments

magikmw@piefed.social · 11 pts · 132d (2 replies)

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?

mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 131d (1 reply)

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

magikmw@piefed.social · 2 pts · 131d

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.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 131d

In testing, the CopprLink connection delivered performance that was nearly indistinguishable from a native PCIe link, trailing by just 2.3%.

That is not indistinguishable. It costing $2300 does not help either.