Lenovo ThinkPad P72, do you recommend to eGPU?

[showmak]

Hi there,

Here you can see the benchmark results of my stock Lenovo ThinkPad P72 hardware.

Is it bad?

Do you recommend to upgrade to eGPU? If yes, which one to go for?

Thank you.

[showmak]

Anyone would like to recommend something?

[glorybound]

I was reading about this too, an my understanding is, eGPU only uses 30% of the GPU power.

[Muhammed_Hamed]

The GPU is fine for monitors and viewport performance, the score is descent honestly
Only consider eGPU for GPU rendering.. you will lose a chunk of performance(depending on the external GPU you use) but it is workable

[Nicinus]

I was reading about this too, an my understanding is, eGPU only uses 30% of the GPU power.

I've read it's about the other way around, you lose about 20-30%. Regardless, it's a sizable portion going to waste. I've been dreaming of going laptop for a while now, and having a docking station (which some of these eGPU boxes works as) with a larger monitor at my desk. It would be great to sit at the coffee shop or a library or wherever, but it might be a pipe dream and something I wouldn't do in reality.

[ThomasMiller]

It would be great to sit at the coffee shop or a library or wherever, but it might be a pipe dream and something I wouldn't do in reality.

Have you considered using a laptop to access your desktop remotely? I think glorybound mentioned doing this successfully in a coffee shop once. I've done it once out of necessity. It worked out, but I still prefer working locally

I think your P72 is a very capable machine. You might be able to work on projects on it and then render it on a desktop? Maybe using a desktop with more threads or GPU as a render node.

[Nicinus]

I've used Teamviewer and although I think it is pretty fantastic how well it works, it's still a big difference compared to using your own machine. Besides, the necessity of a fast connection takes away that coveted flexibility where you can just work anywhere. Having two computers, one laptop and one desktop is also painful imho, and reduces your financial capacity to half on both of them.

I was drooling over that Asus Studiobook One with an RTX6000, but it turned out to be vaporware.

[ThomasMiller]

Yup, agreed. And sorry Nicinus , I was referring to you as if you were the original poster. My bad I take it you don't have the P72 in question.

When it comes to mobile work stations, I was drooling over the ROG Mothership GZ700 when it was announced. Don't know if it lived up to expectation or not. I could do without the gamer aesthetic and the high refresh rate monitor.