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Can you upgrade a laptop graphics card (GPU)?
Can you make a graphics switch in your favorite laptop? Here's what you need to know.
Some of the best laptops available today feature a dedicated (sometimes called discrete) graphics card (GPU) that can deliver much more performance compared to integrated processor (CPU) graphics. You'll find a GPU in the majority of high-end gaming laptops, as well as most that are used for development and design work; the extra performance unlocks the ability to use more intensive apps and games, and you can do it all while remaining mobile.
Thunderbolt 5 could be the standard that make external SSDs and GPUs mainstream
Connectivity was a focus of CES, with specifications like Wi-Fi 7 and Thunderbolt 5 being previewed. The latter could change up the PC accessory game.
Connectivity stole the show at CES 2024 this year more than any other in recent memory. Wi-Fi 7 is the new standard that crept up in the industry with fast speeds and lower latency. There's also Thunderbolt 5, the latest connectivity standard from Intel that promises double the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 4. Although Wi-Fi 7 is a significant achievement, Thunderbolt 5 is truly an exciting standard that opens up new possibilities for what you can do with external hardware.
The OneXGPU is coming November 28 starting at $600
The folks at OneXPlayer have announced the launch date and pricing for their eGPY with integrated storage space
If you have the OneXGPU on your wishlist, we want to share some good news. The folks at OneXPlayer, who are behind the upcoming external GPU with integrated storage space, have announced the pricing and launch date for the product. The OneXGPU is set to be released on November 28, with pricing starting at $600.
Best external GPU enclosures for your laptop in 2024
If you're in the market to buy a new external GPU enclosure for your laptop, then we have some great recommendations for you in this collection.
Buying the best external GPU enclosures for your laptop can be crucial to boosting the overall performance of the machine, be it for gaming or for improving the render speeds in Premiere Pro. The external GPU (or eGPU) enclosure, as the name suggests, holds a desktop graphics card and also provides power for it. These enclosures allow you to get all the graphics capabilities of powerful desktop graphics even while using a thin and light laptop.
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.