External GPUs were always second best. CopprLink may change that

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• magikmw@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • magikmw@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 $2,300 does not help either.

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