System specs
- Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL
- 14" FullHD touchscreen
- Intel i7-1065G7 CPU
- 16GB LPDDR4x 3733MHz RAM
- 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD
- Intel Iris Plus iGPU
- Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 2004
eGPU hardware
- Mantiz Venus (MZ-02)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 3GB
- Short TB3 cable that came with the enclosure
Installation steps
- Put eGPU into enclosure
- Connect them up with bundled TB3 cable
- Turn laptop on
- Receive nice BSOD (optional)
- Install latest nVidia driver
- Ready to use
Benchmarks
Bandwidth:
32Gbps Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth
Unigine Valley:
Internal display, Iris Plus iGPU = 466 points
External display, GTX 1060 3GB dGPU (H2D firmware) = 2470 points
CrystalDiskMark:
Samsung 860 Qvo 1TB SATA3 SSD, Mantiz Venus (H2D firmware)
Comments
Sadly, my new setup still lags behind my desktop build from 5 years ago, so at this point it's probably safe to say that the cpu is not the bottleneck here, but the Thunderbolt 3 architecture itself.
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL / Mantiz Venus / Gigabyte GTX 1060 3GB
2019 14" Lenovo Yoga C940 [10th,4C,G] + GTX 1060 @ 32Gbps-TB3 (Mantiz Venus) + Win10 [build link]
@rhino666, Yes, sadly the Thunderbolt 3 do not have the full bandwidth as intel say, even the M2 NVme X4 is better.