Occulink becoming mainstream (vs thunderbolt) might change my opinion on EGPU's
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videocardz.comPosted Dec 25, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC
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videocardz.comThe host device side is improving, but the enclosure side is still janky af.
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I'm still scratching my head as to why enclosures are so expensive. It's just a small box, with a PSU, and then the connector and some ciricuitry. Assuming you bring your own PSU, shouldn't it cost about as much as a $50 case? Or is the circuitry really that complicated and expensive?
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They're a niche product so no economies of scale.
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or I have core X, can't I have something easy to upgrade? Maybe just update mainboard
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This should be pcie gen 4 x8 to really be viable tho
It's over 3x the bandwidth of thunderbolt
https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-oculink/#:~:text=Unlike%20Thunderbolt%2C%20OCuLink%20is%20virtually,out%20at%205%20GB%2Fs.
Theoretically. In practice it's more like 30-40% percent more