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AKiTiO Node: Testing NVIDIA eGPU Support in Ubuntu 17.10
After SIGGRAPH there were questions about whether or not eGPU was supported in Linux. Daniel answers that with help from the AKiTiO Node and NVIDIA.
Ever since the announcement of Intel's Thunderbolt 3 technology there has been external graphics card (eGPU) support. Unfortunately for most of last year, including with Intel's own Skull Canyon NUC, putting this solution to use was challenging at best. Most motherboards didn't fully support the technology and those that did typically required a system that was far more expensive. For example, the Skull Canyon NUC at release was $700, unconfigured. Adding SSDs and RAM usually bumped that up well over $1000.