There are lots of eGPUs available to choose from. It’s easy to connect and its 40Gbps bandwidth provides a decent performance so you could actually make use of that GPU. This required quite a bit of research and the expected performance wasn’t entirely clear (especially for deep learning related tasks) so after going through all at trouble I’ve decided to write up some of my experiences and things I’ve noticed.ĭo not expect really sophisticated insights or benchmarks here but I hope that it’s going to help you build the intuition about the expected eGPU performance. That’s quite a convenient option - you get a portable machine that can hook into a beefy GPU when you are working in your regular place. Since it’s a laptop, I’ve started looking into getting an external GPU.
A while ago I’ve wanted to bump up non-existing gaming and deep learning capabilities of my workstation.
