External GPUs connect to laptops and gaming handhelds ... so you might still see a big performance hit. It's worth noting that Thunderbolt 5 is starting to hit the market too, doubling the ...

Years ago, I really wanted a laptop with an external GPU. It seemed like the holy grail of portable laptop gaming — a power-hungry GPU that lived on your desk, to be plugged in for gaming ...

Sadly, external GPUs are still something of a dark art ... x8 PCIe and x16 PCIe. It's worth highlighting that these systems aren't all equal in terms of their other compute components.

Discover the performance, efficiency, and value differences in NVIDIA's latest GPU lineup. NVIDIA RTX 5080 delivers a ...

Unfortunately, Intel doesn’t seem to be taking kindly to the idea of external GPUs. That hasn’t stopped a few creative people like [Larry Gadea] from figuring it out on their own. Right now he ...

Editor's take: Even though they have been available for quite some time, external GPUs haven't exactly taken the IT world by storm. However, there is certainly a market for these products ...

However, that’s all beginning to change, with [Jeff Geerling] reporting success getting external GPUs to work on the Raspberry Pi 5. Unlike previous Raspberry Pis, the Raspberry Pi 5 has a less ...

TL;DR: Sparkle introduced the Studio-G 850 at CES 2025, a Thunderbolt 5-powered external GPU enclosure supporting up to 3.5-slot GPUs. It includes an 850W PSU, USB Type-C power delivery ...