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Re:GTX 1070 beats the 980ti and Titanx in every game we tested by lewisl9029 on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:07PM (#11802886)
Interesting that they're starting with a mainstream part. I hope this becomes a trend since the mainstream part is the only one I'm ever really interested in every generation (as my gaming needs are rather modest, and currently served adequately by a GTX 750 TI).

I was planning on waiting for a mainstream version of the 1070/1080 from NVIDIA to use in a Thunderbolt graphics dock with a Thunderbolt 3 compatible ultrabook, which is a setup that, I assume, will be far more limited by the ultra low voltage CPU in the ultrabook than any mainstream graphics card from this next generation anyways. But it looks like Polaris might fit the bill and release sooner.

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Re:GTX 1070 beats the 980ti and Titanx in every game we tested by jon-wood on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:14PM (#11802910)
Have you had any experience using a graphics dock? I was talking about it the other day and while it seems like a nice idea I've yet to encounter anyone who's actually used one and can speak to how good compatibility is.
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Re:GTX 1070 beats the 980ti and Titanx in every game we tested by jsheard on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:16PM (#11803252)
Up to this point graphics docks have either been hacked together or proprietary one-offs, so they're not widely used. Standardized TB3 graphics docks are coming very soon though.

https://youtu.be/vGFRoWj0YOw?t=181

Compatibility wise they're supposed to work with any laptop that has Thunderbolt 3, supports the Intel eGPU UEFI extension, and is running Windows 10.

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Re:GTX 1070 beats the 980ti and Titanx in every game we tested by lmm on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:41PM (#11803060)
My Surface Book is effectively that (the better GPU is in the detachable half) and compatibility is perfect (once had an issue where a game used the wrong card, detached and reattached and it was all fine, drivers have updated since then) - admittedly that's a system where everything is first-party and designed to work that way.
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