Does anyone have any experience using an egpu?

[Muhammed_Hamed]

basically it can be an old PC with a new fast RTX card

Newer CPUs will get you more performance out of your GPUs, in our testing it is nearly 12% faster to use a 4090 coupled with a 7950X CPU than running it with a Threadripper 3990X ...
the 3990x is not even that old, so this ratio will be bigger if you compare to older CPUs

[AlexP]

Im using an eGPU with a laptop and its great.
sometimes 3090 sometimes 4090.
I use razer core X and also some barebones thing which is basically a little slot and a psu. (so small enough to fit in a suitcase to travel, although the card itself is massive..)

I benchmarked the 3090 with both adaptors, and got slightly less performance as expected, but honestly in production I barely notice.

[glorybound]

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Ca...90IXEB-24GD#kf - This might be the ticket!

[response]

Thanks in advance Muhammed for any guidance on this. I was thinking of building a separate render node for Vantage but hadn't really looked at an egpu as being an option. Would also need to purchase a thunderbolt expansion card as well I'm assuming.