Gigabyte Geforce AORUS RTX 3080 R2.0 LHR Water-Cooling External Graphics Gaming Box
Not a bad price considering it’s water cooling and the market price for a TB3 enclosure. But would be difficult to take the gpu out and install in PC.
Guess the gaming experience would be nice if using with the 12th gen core mobile cpu
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That was the first thing I was going to check. That sucks and seems totally unnecessary.
Teardown I watched seemed to imply that you could probably install it in a PC but would be quite a bit of work?
I would personally only attempt it if I got one of these for super cheap. Like double digits cheap.
It made me sad seeing these consistently in stock during the worst parts of the shortage
no one wants it
just FYI if you own a macbook or macbook pro this will not work with the M1 and M1 pro, Intel macs will be fine though.
Also worth noting the Mac doesn't have nVidia drivers, only AMD. So you would have to use this in Bootcamp.
Interesting, first time seeing this plug-in type of GPU. How to run it at full speed if it plugs in a Windows laptops?
Think you need a good thunderbolt connection. High bandwidth
Haven't been caught up with egpus in years. How much performance do you lose vs say a 3080 in its native pcie habbitat
From what I've noticed it's 5-10%.
Actually valheim showed to be 50% worse than PCI 3080.. unsure if that was an issue with egpu for that game.
It's limited to PCIE3x4 (i.e. 32Gb/s), which is synonymous with PCIE1.1x16. This article goes into more detail, but it's typically 10-15% (depending on the game and resolution), which is quite acceptable (at least, in my opinion).
I think it’s worse than that. Gen3 x4 speed is best case, depends what other devices thunderbolt is sharing bandwidth with.
Also considering the 3080 is supposed to be Gen4 x16, it’s likely a bigger hit than 15%
Yes, that is true regarding the shared bandwidth, so it'd be ill-advised to use the integrated GbE or USB ports (beyond a keyboard, mouse, etc.) when prioritising maximum GPU performance. The PCIE scaling article referenced above uses an RTX 3080, so it should accurately reflect the performance reduction. Of course, there is an additional overhead when utilising Thunderbolt 3, even when operating at PCIE3x4 (i.e. 32Gb/s).
Isn't thunderbolt 3 only 16gbps? 32gbps is Tb4?
They're both (potentially) 32Gb/s. The difference is with the certification requirements. Thunderbolt 3 is guaranteed 16Gb/s and optionally up to 32Gb/s, whereas Thunderbolt 4 is guaranteed 32Gb/s. Don't quote me on it, but that's my basic understanding of the situation.
Can you upgrade the GPU in the future?
I want the razer core X chroma but it's half the price of this
Nice concept, does anyone actually use this? Couldn't imagine this over just a native GPU
I used an eGPU (Alienware Amplifier) for a while.
The idea is that you can connect your laptop to it and get "desktop-like" performance.
It's was not bad idea, I had an RTX 3060 Ti hooked it up to a QHD monitor. I could disconnect it and use the onboard GTX 1060.
Some caveats:
- The amplifier was not portable. If you needed the extra GPU grunt, it was pain to move.
- Using the laptop's internal display was possible but could impact performance significantly
- Limited bandwidth impacted GPU performance, dependent on game
In short, it's used by those who like the portability of using a laptop but want to dock to a more powerful GPU for near desktop performance and only want a single computer.
A pretty good price given a regular desktop RTX 3080 costs around $1200.
Could be better than buying a gaming laptop with a mobile 3080 (for some, if you do most of your gaming at home) in terms of versatility, performance and cost.
It's a cool looking device but it shatters my heart to see LHR emblazoned on my eyes like a corrupt slogan.
Proprietary GPU kills it, cannot be taken out and work as normal GPU with PCIe