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Hey all, I recently got a new AMD GPU to replace my nvidia 3070ti - what's the support like these days for egpus on Linux? I'd like to be able to still use the 3070ti with my laptop (it has thunderbolt ports).

Egpu enclosures were basically a nonstarter on Linux a few years ago last time I looked into it, so not sure if thats still the case.

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[–] TheTux@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was daily driving an Egpu on my framework laptop with an 11th gen Intel cpu/main board for a few years up until early last year. It did its job, I could play games & run graphically intensive applications, but performance was really bad for the card I was using, which was a radion 6600 (8gb). The problem was the laptop was stuck at only 4 lanes of pcie at gen 1 speeds , resulting in high latency, frequently buggy audio, & poor overall performance for the hardware.

If you have better hardware that fully supports USB 4 & thunderbolt 3+, & is able to link to the GPU at gen 3+ speeds you should have a better experience than I did. If you'd like, I can DM you various resources I've found while I was troubleshooting this setup a few years ago.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hey thanks, that might be handy. Though probably better to just post the info here I'm sure it might be helpful to others, and not just me.

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

egpu.io is a great resource.