EGPU Expierence!!?

[Luisgoinsane]

So guys whats your expierence using Egpus so far?

[ceecrb1]

I have a really cheap low power sonnet rx570 one just to give a 13" macbook pro helping hand.
Really just got it to give capture visualizer a boost, but have tested with resolume and you can really tell it's there.
TLDR. There is for sure an improvement but less on an improvement over same gpu "properly" installed into a pc.
Think same as a rtx3060 is not the same as an rtx3060m. There is some loss but an improvement on nothing.

For years I was the LED tech on a worldwide broadcast live show, where my mate operated vdmx on a trashintosh with thunderbolt case for egpu and pcie capture card. The biggest issues I saw was him having to sometimes disconnect and reconnect the thunderbolt cable after booting if it wasnt working right but once that was done, zero issues and completely stable.

[Arvol]

I've seen 3 major festivals crash and burn because of a VJ using these.

[Luisgoinsane]

But why? I mean as 4 extra outputs doing the processing in the laptop gpu works fins I also tried a rtx 3090 on egpu and worked fine until I did nvidia surround then the frame rate went down. Im talking about this cause I am moving to another country and I need something really for mobility

[Arvol]

Because the cable is small and flimsy and nothing keeps it locked in, and when it comes out, OS's don't like that and crashes.

[Luisgoinsane]

I mean unplugging it its something and the device failing another

[Arvol]

The bass from the events rattled the connection loose.

[Luisgoinsane]

Good thing I focus on corporate events