You’re taking a core system component like the GPU and stringing it outside of your machine. However, like you said, it just hasn’t panned out, and it reminds me of other neato ideas over the years there were technical feats but were in retrospect kinda dumb (dual video cards, dual dial-up modems–yes that was a thing for a hot 5 minutes in the '90s). It seems like a gimmick of the time when we were awed by the bandwidth and external bus capabilities of Thunderbolt 3, and thought it would be amazing to have a full-powered GPU on a lightweight mobile device. When I do it over (in a couple of years when this system is needing replaced), I have no interest in the eGPU route. Remember how 5 years ago there was all this hype and excitement over eGPU options for laptops by Razer, Dell, Apple, etc? It didn’t just stagnate and disappear for no reason.Īs the owner of the Blackmagic eGPU Pro with a MacBook Pro 2018, I firmly agree with your assessment. In a lot of ways it was like SLI setups where the in-theory concept was fine but actual use-cases turned out to be rather limited. The industry tried the eGPU route and… it hasn’t really panned out.
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