Gigabyte Thunderbolt 3 - RX 580 Gaming Box
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spectatorx
Unlike other gigabyte's "gaming boxes" this one doesn't have aorus branding, if you know what i mean say "green goblin".
https://s13.postimg.org/tdv2zbcfr/gamingbox.png
schmidtbag
I'd rather pay less for weaker GPUs. I've seen benchmarks of an external 1080, and the limited PCIe bandwidth gave it underwhelming performance. A 1060 or a RX 570 are pretty much as good as you can get without frequently wasting the GPU's potential. That's not to say something like a 1070 couldn't perform better, but in a lot of titles, it won't be faster than a 1060.
Fox2232
Loophole35
schmidtbag
Fox2232
schmidtbag
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_PCI_Express_Scaling/
They seem to do one of these tests every other year. Pretty interesting and comprehensive - I don't know of anyone else who does tests like this.
True, but it's the bottleneck why I specifically feel a 1060 or 570 make for a better option - you pay less without really any performance loss in most cases. Meanwhile, weaker GPUs use less power. This is important to factor in, since the power bricks get disproportionately more expensive, large, and hot as you increase the wattage. From what I recall, the price really starts to go up fast once you breach 80W. If you go for an RX 550 or GTX 1050Ti, those are efficient enough to not need any PCIe power connectors, (therefore should be sub-75W) and a power brick for that should be relatively cheap. They're also slow enough that as long as you lower texture details, they should perform well on USB 3.2. They still might be a little too much for PCIe 3.0 x1 slots, though.
I'm not sure what your level of interest in all of this is, but there is something I could recommend to you, that maybe isn't elegant but very cheap. There are products on eBay that allow you to convert M.2 slots into x4 PCIe slots. I think they cost something like $5USD. You can also get M.2 riser cables. Combine these together and buy some 12v power brick and you could create your own eGPU solution for laptops for about 1/10 the price of these other eGPU enclosures. Since you're feeding directly from PCIe, there is no latency loss. The downsides are the ugly appearance, fragility, and not hot-swappable.
What were you testing? If you're not really doing anything, PCIe usage tends to stay from 0-1%.
BTW here's what I was referencing earlier:
Killian38
Don't waste your money. If this is your only option, you need to rethink your life decisions.
Harsh but true.
Fox2232
schmidtbag
KissSh0t
Fit a whole gaming PC inside that box and then I'll be excited.
Fox2232