usb-c on gpus

[OhYou_]

are they gonna bring it back  : (

i know it was only really meant for VR but it would be very useful for egpus/dock setups since you can plug all your desk peripherals into the gpu over usb and just have a single thunderbolt cable out to the laptop without having to buy/use expensive thunderbolt docks and daisy chain it.
 

[filpo]

11 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

are they gonna bring it back  : (

i know it was only really meant for VR but it would be very useful for egpus/dock setups since you can plug all your desk peripherals into the gpu over usb and just have a single thunderbolt cable out to the laptop without having to buy/use expensive thunderbolt docks and daisy chain it.
 

Ye it is a bit weird

Edited November 30, 2023 by filpo
I'm silly :)

[OhYou_]

5 minutes ago, filpo said:

It's on the 7900 series founders cards

but it isnt usb, it's just DP2.1 and PD in a type-c connector
one of the only cards that had it were turing cards like the 2080ti, it was usb 3.1 gen2

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

but it isnt usb, it's just DP2.1 and PD in a type-c connector
one of the only cards that had it were turing cards like the 2080ti, it was usb 3.1 gen2

Might've been too costly to get the rights for USB and also make a decent gpu. Then again compared to 30 and 40 series the 20 series was quite cheap

[OhYou_]

yeah but im also open to professional cards. I could easily see it being justifiable to the professional market so people can run usb-c displays from their workstation gpu instead of using that abomination of a usb passthrough thing built into a handful of workstation motherboards.