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Most motherboards provide at least 16 lanes of PCIE and versions much higher than 3.0, and provide similar ports on their motherboard.

The reason is that thunderbolt3 actually exposes 4 lanes of a PCI-E v3.0 bus (aka PCIEX4). Tangent: with thunderbolt3, GPU performance is bottlenecked #ДЄs part of my research, I learned that thunderbolt3 will not be able to provide as much bandwidth as a PCI-E port. Note: The reality turned out to be a bit different, so I wouldnвЂ™t recommend a Core X Chroma (or any eGPU IвЂ™ve seen) for the additional USB ports and Linux.

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I chose an external GPU because I wanted to be able to upgrade my graphics card and not have to buy a new encoslure (as the Core X Chroma is already $400 USD!). Theoretically, I should just be able to connect a single USB-c port to get all of that. With those ports, I wouldnвЂ™t need to connect a dock on top of my eGPU to connect my keyboard, mouse, headset, and video camera. The Razer Core X Chroma not not only provided an eGPU, but also provided a 4 USB 3.0 ports and a 1GBps Ethernet port. Ideally, I wanted to go for something that reduced the amount of cables that I had to mess with. I havenвЂ™t tried it, but it seems to work better than the Chroma on Linux due to different USB boards.

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UPDATE 20200905: IвЂ™d recommend checking out the Mantiz Saturn Pro. I donвЂ™t believe there are a lot of advantages to this setup, aside from the smaller size due to the ability to have a custom board that wires all the components together.

a power supply to power whatever GPU you want to useДЄn embedded GPU provides everything mentioned above, but also includes the GPU, hard-wired.

a thunderbolt 3 controller and port to connect your device to the GPU.

So what eGPU should I choose? ThereвЂ™s typically two varieties: eGPU Enclosure #Д®ffectively bring-your-own-graphics card.

I had a desktop with a GTX 1060 at home for comparison, so I knew the experience that a high performance GPU can enable.

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I originally tried to just use a laptop with a thunderbolt 3 dock, but I found that the stuttering of the screen and the very slow rendering experience when I had 4 browser windows opened was putting a hamper on my productivity.

I use two 4k Displays at home, and the current GPUs that are embedded into ultrabooks (for Intel laptops, typically Intel UHD Graphics 6xx) struggle with that resolution (effectively 2 x 4K).

my day-to-day work environment utilizes web applications heavily, which in turn run much smoother when there is a powerful GPU to accelerate rendering.

However, I purchased an eGPU for my day-to-day work and for coding. Typically, one would buy a separate GPU either to play video games or to run some machine learning models. Laptops with a USB-C thunderbolt port has become extremely common, and both my personal and work laptops expose such a port.

The Razer Core X Chroma, and why I chose itД®GPUs is short for external GPUs: With the advent of Thunderbolt 3 and itвЂ™s ability to expose PCI express buses via a USB-C cable, it is now possible to connect a GPU to any device that has a thunderbolt 3 controller.

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