Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor

Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by steve19 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:34PM (#17520333)

I would like to know as well. And if anyone knows if they work well with thunderbolt2.

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by archagon on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:12AM (#17521282)

I built a simple, no-hacks-needed TB2 eGPU for Bootcamp use. The caveat is that an external monitor is required, but other than that it's basically 100% reliable: http://archagon.net/blog/2016/12/31/cheap-and-painless-egpu-...

This thing must have extended the life of my laptop by 2-3 years.

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by callumjones on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:44PM (#17520385)

I’m playing PUBG on a MB Pro Mid-2015 (integrated graphics only) with a Akitio Node TB3 + nVidia 1060. It worked out of the box on Windows 10.

Yes I’m losing some bandwidth stepping down to TB2 but it’s enough to satisfy some casual gaming.

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Re:Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor by pvg on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:38PM (#17520359)

You take a performance hit even with tb3. Tb2 (for eGPU) is not directly supported by Apple and not really worth it.

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