The best graphics cards for an external GPU enclosure | Digital Trends
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One way to boost your laptop's performance is with an external graphics enclosure. Here are the best GPUs to give your laptop desktop-grade gaming power.
  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
    3·
    10 months ago

    Can someone explain why you would use something like this?

    Presumably it’s because you don’t have a desktop, but wouldn’t virtually any desktop-class card be heavily bottlenecked by a mobile CPU?

    • DerisionConsulting
      7·
      10 months ago

      Sometimes you can get laptops with decent CPUs, but they only have onboard graphics
      Sometimes you buy a system that physically can’t house the GPU you want, but the board/PSU is proprietary, so you can’t just change the tower/case.
      Sometimes there are GPU heavy tasks that don’t really rely on CPU that much, and you are using a laptop.

      But the vast majority of the time, sticking a new card in your desktop is the way to go.

      • Pyr_Pressure
        2·
        10 months ago

        What about for the purposes of heat?

        Wouldn’t it be beneficial to keep heavy duty gpus out of your PC just to keep the heat away from your other components?

        • DerisionConsulting
          1·
          10 months ago

          Case design has come a long way, and I personally haven’t had an issue with case-temp since overclocking things in the early 2000’s,

          But, if the desktop was built in a thin mini-ITX case, I could see case-temp being an issue, but I think you would most likely also being running into “can’t physically fit into the system” issue.

    • baconisaveg
      5·
      10 months ago

      Marketing it to the gaming segment sells more units, but realistically these are great for full GPU loads like rendering or machine learning.

    • alessandroOP
      31·
      10 months ago

      Laptops, or if you have multiple mid-range PC across the house (media center in living room, study PC in your room or working PC in your studio for convert video/3d render): you can move your portable GPU without reassembly.

      Nowadays GPU are also kind of mobile AI, so you’re not just moving gaming graphics but also a little offline chat/drawGPT, video converter etc.

  • Yokozuna@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    So I really prefer horizontal mother board cases like the one in the picture, anyone know of some nice ones? It’s about time I got a new one.

  • mtchristo@lemm.ee
    31·
    10 months ago

    Shame they cost as much as the mid-range cards themselves. A Chinese knock off would be welcome