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Razer told me their EGPU will work on normal USB-C, should I not believe this?

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Hi all,

I recently contacted Razer customer support about their egpu, and they said that it would work on a normal usb-c that is not thunderbolt 3. Should I take their word and buy it? Or will it just not work? 

 

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I don't envision that working at all, you would need some kind of PCIe interface, which is what Thunderbolt 3 provides.

 

Even then, PCIe x4(provided by TB3) isn't enough to run a GPU comfortably without running into bottlenecking due to the bandwidth restriction.

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If there's no PCI Connection either it simply won't work (Which I really believe it won't) or the bandwidth offered by USB 3.1 Gen 2 won't be enough to have anything other that a shit experience. It won't work though.

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even if it does work the bandwidth bottleneck will be big, so don't buy it. Besides, if you're not using a Razer laptop they can always blame someone else.

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6 minutes ago, Jray204 said:

I recently contacted Razer customer support about their egpu, and they said that it would work on a normal usb-c that is not thunderbolt 3. Should I take their word and buy it? Or will it just not work?

No. eGPUs require Thunderbolt 3.

 

Not directed to you but to those who think the bandwidth of a Thunderbolt 3 would hamper the GPU. Yes the lower bandwidth will cause performance, but the performance loss isn't that much: https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_RTX_2080_Ti_PCI-Express_Scaling/6.html

 

Note this is for an RTX 2080 Ti, which is a hungry GPU.

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