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The next logical step of the current GPU development

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

External GPU's do indeed exist but at the moment they're still kind of crap compared to a full PCI-E bus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Depends on the connection. OCuLink-2 is straight up a PCIe 4.0 8x connection. Which is more than enough for a GPU

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

With Mac and steam OS gathering support, wonder when we get a universal external cards

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have, thunderbolt and oculink have existed for a long time, but macOS on M processors never added egpu support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

universal? How would drivers work? Would temple os have support?