Among all the components that can currently be found on the market are graphics cards, which, as we know well, are part of the internal structure of a computer, although there is a way to use them in external. This is where the boxes would come in eGPU which simply take advantage of specific hardware to allow the incorporation of a dedicated graphics card and be able to use it through a connector such as OCuLink or even Thunderbolt/USB-C in several cases, although the new box which was presented Glow It seems more designed to house an entire computer.
Las eGPU are a solution for those looking to integrate the power offered by a chart dedicated to a system that normally would not be able to use it like laptops, but they are not very well known because they are expensive and also work much worse. The main reason why they have lower performance is that obviously, by having to connect them via cable to the PC instead of using the PCIe connector, they cannot take full advantage of what they actually offer, which Many companies are trying to solve by offering a series of technologies capable of improving performance when connecting a device via cable.
A big box to… store an external graphics card?
The graphics cards that we see with the latest generations of AMD and NVIDIA have very large sizes, this means that if we want to integrate one we have to look for a case for our PC with a fairly considerable size. But what would happen if we wanted to use an eGPU of this type? Well, it's quite clear that a the case with the size of the one you presented Glow during CES, which in addition to being extremely large, is also the first of the brand to integrate Thunderbolt 5.
We may be quite surprised by its size since it has dimensions of 40 x 20 x 24 cm, but this is completely understandable given that current graphics cards only occupy around 30 cm in length and even more depending on the models. But it should be noted that this case also obviously needs a power supply only for the GPU, and is ready to support even NVIDIA's flagship model, the RTX 5090 (with a consumption of 575W), since it integrates a power supply of 850 W which has a 16-pin 12VHPWR connector.
In addition to all this, it also has a series of additional functions such as the possibility of using a USB Type-C cable to charge other devices offering up to 100W, while it even includes a Ethernet port and several USB Type A ports. What We do not know if it will integrate the PCIe 5.0 interface, which is absolutely necessary for next generation graphics, although we obviously know that it will have Thunderbolt 5 as we indicated at the beginning and that it will provide a bandwidth of between 80 and 120 Gbit/s.
We also don't know what the price will be, but this type of hardware is generally not cheap considering everything it includes, so it's likely to easily exceed $300.
