The eGPU or GPU External concept seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? Only one external graphics card. However, the concept is a bit progressive because there are many factors and especially the technical requirements that explain it, and that can make the difference not only with the fact that you may be interested in this kind of product or not, but also whether it works for you or buy something expensive but useless.
What is eGPU?
We've already said: the concept is a graphics card … but not quite. It is housing where the PCB is integrated by the PCI-Express port where inserting a graphics card (which may or may not be included), power transmission and connecting interface. In other words, eGPU It's a whole set that will allow us to connect a graphics card to another PC.
As a general rule, these apartments will provide each connection Thunderbolt or USB-C, because they are the only ones that give us enough bandwidth to be able to use it. So, it's important and it's a compulsory feature that, on the machines we want to use, we have this connection.
These backups can be as simple as just getting an electrical outlet, PCI-Express socket and connection interface, but these days it is more common that they include a whole cluster that offers several functionality variables, such as adding many USB ports and it also includes active cooling, in addition to handling an embedded graphics card from the factory.
In what situations would you be interested in eGPU?
The basic function of these devices is to provide the system with low utilization or low power consumption of the image enough to play the latest market topics. In other words, eGPU can allow us to play with laptops or laptops such as Intel NUC. The need, as we mentioned before, is the compatible Thunderbolt or USB-C display.
So, if for example you are a Mac user and want to be able to play games that have excellent requirements but you can't, if your Mac has Thunderbolt 3 then you can do it with eGPU. The same thing happens if you have a Windows laptop with integrated graphics, or a mini PC. You may also be interested if you have a modern PC but don't have dedicated graphics.
