Not too familiar with benchmarking with AIDA64 but starting up a game and reran HWINFO, low and behold the connection is full speed. Looks like the Thinkpad X1 Tablet 3rd Gen is a good option.
Early 2015 13" MBP with Thunder2 RX 470 on Windows 10 and MacOS 10.1 (Formerly)
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Tablet 3rd Gen and 2070 RTX Aorus Gaming Box (Custom)
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I worked with an extremely helpful person over on the notebook review forums that owns a Samsung Notebook 9 15" version with the MX150 dGPU and confirmed that the dGPU is in fact configured in x2 PCIe mode and that the x4 PCIe root port that has nothing connected to it seems to be the TB3 port. Things are getting exciting. Isn't every i7-8550U laptop that has 4-lane Thunderbolt 3 also OPI 4GT/s? I thought the 8th Gen U CPUs all used OPI by default for their 12 lanes. Intel's spec sheets seem to state this. Not sure why a 4-lane TB3 port would not use 4GT/s OPI with these CPUs. Has that been the case on any existing notebooks with these 8th Gen U CPU?
The proof:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachments/upload_2018-8-16_14-46-18-png.162570/
LG Gram 17 | Sonnet Breakaway Box 550 | Asus Strix RTX 2070 OC Edition | Win 10 Pro 20H2 + Fedora 32 Dual Boot
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2018 17" LG Gram 17 [8th,4C,U] + RTX 2070 @ 32Gbps-TB3 (Sonnet Breakaway 550) + Win10 [build link]
I see that the HP Spectre x360 with an i7 processor has been mentioned in this list. I would like to buy an HP spectre but my budget allows me an i5 model only. Can someone please confirm if it would be eGPU compatible or not?
To do: Create my signature with system and expected eGPU configuration information to give context to my posts. I have no builds.
.@sudeepam_pandey The HP Spectre x360 i5 model should work with an eGPU.
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2020 14" MSI Prestige 14 EVO [11th,4C,G] + RTX 3080 @ 32Gbps-TB4 (AORUS Gaming Box) + Win10 2004 [build link]
@itsage, that is good to hear, thank you for helping. 😀
To do: Create my signature with system and expected eGPU configuration information to give context to my posts. I have no builds.
."Intel released 8th-generation 6-core (hex) Q 45W CPUs. These come packaged in laptops with larger chassis to accommodate more substantial cooling systems, coupled with bulkier power supplies to drive them. A bigger package that packs a bigger punch. It’s definitely worth the performance advantage if you can trade portability for performance."
Can someone clarify if that is indeed the case? I've read in several places that despite the expected performance gain, 8750H based systems don't perform as well as 8550U based ones in eGPU scenarios. And if so, what might be the reason? Something related to the dGPU or perhaps a lack of optimization?
Thanks in advance =]
To do: Create my signature with system and expected eGPU configuration information to give context to my posts. I have no builds.
.2017 13" MacBook Pro Touch Bar
GTX1060 + AKiTiO Thunder3 + Win10
GTX1070 + Sonnet Breakaway Box + Win10
GTX1070 + Razer Core V1 + Win10
Vega 56 + Razer Core V1 + macOS + Win10
Vega 56 + Mantiz Venus + macOS + W10
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LG 5K Ultrafine flickering issue fix
2017 13" MacBook Pro [7th,2C,U] + RX 5700 XT @ 32Gbps-TB3 (Mantiz Venus) + macOS 10.15.4 & Win10 2004 [build link]
"Intel released 8th-generation 6-core (hex) Q 45W CPUs. These come packaged in laptops with larger chassis to accommodate more substantial cooling systems, coupled with bulkier power supplies to drive them. A bigger package that packs a bigger punch. It’s definitely worth the performance advantage if you can trade portability for performance."
Can someone clarify if that is indeed the case? I've read in several places that despite the expected performance gain, 8750H based systems don't perform as well as 8550U based ones in eGPU scenarios. And if so, what might be the reason? Something related to the dGPU or perhaps a lack of optimization?
Thanks in advance =]
The power supply may be big like on Razer Blade 15 advanced model and Zephyrus S with 1070 maxq, but the cassis is not bulky like old gaming laptops body. It because both laptops supports factory overclocking feature that needs big wattage, 230 Watt ac adapter. Both device only weights around 2Kg, not too heavy but compared to 8550U laptops with lower cpu tdp yes it’s heavy. On some scenarios that I saw, graphics performance on ultrabook is better, i saw xps15, MSI stealth gs65, Blade 15 Graphics score on benchmarks like 3Dmark is lower than ultrabook. I assume that TB3 route architecture is different than ultrabook most probably due the existence of dGPU. Though it’s not hugely different. MacBook Pro 15 and Alienware with dGPU has also similar great graphics score with ultrabook like Blade stealth or MacBook Pro 13, since I heard TB3 connects directly to cpu unlike most gaming laptops (with higher tdp cpu) that go through pch first. But physical performance on 8750H that around 80% faster covered that downside. So I prefer playing games with 8750H egpu setting than ultrabook (don’t have 8550U, but 7500U) even graphically it’s better.
Razer Blade 15 2018, i7 8750H 16gb ddr4 2666mhz 1tb 970Evo
Razer Blade Stealth 12,5 2016 i7 7500U 8gb ddr3 1866mhz 500gb 970Evo
MacBook Pro 13 mid 2012 i5 3210M 12gb ddr3 1600mhz 500GB HDD
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Portable Monitor Magedok 1440p HDR 60Hz usbA/C monitor
2016 12" Razer Blade Stealth [7th,2C,U] + RTX 2080 Ti @ 32Gbps-TB3 (Razer Core V2) + Win10 1803 [build link]
@eightarmedpet Yes that was a reference RX Vega 56 with the Core V1.
• external graphics card builds
• best laptops for external GPU
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2020 14" MSI Prestige 14 EVO [11th,4C,G] + RTX 3080 @ 32Gbps-TB4 (AORUS Gaming Box) + Win10 2004 [build link]
@itsage wahoooo. Good to hear. Mines in the post... Vega no 2.
2017 13" MacBook Pro Touch Bar
GTX1060 + AKiTiO Thunder3 + Win10
GTX1070 + Sonnet Breakaway Box + Win10
GTX1070 + Razer Core V1 + Win10
Vega 56 + Razer Core V1 + macOS + Win10
Vega 56 + Mantiz Venus + macOS + W10
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LG 5K Ultrafine flickering issue fix
2017 13" MacBook Pro [7th,2C,U] + RX 5700 XT @ 32Gbps-TB3 (Mantiz Venus) + macOS 10.15.4 & Win10 2004 [build link]