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Owais345
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No no thunderbolt support

 

Even if it had its VERY expensive and you'll have quite lowered performance since thunderbolt AT BEST had a pcie 3.0 x4 link.

 

If you need gpu performance in  slim device multiple options available for less than this one + an egpu and at worst just as performant (usually better)

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7 minutes ago, Owais345 said:

So I just brought a Lenovo laptop and was wondering if I could use an egpu
IdeaPad Slim 5 16IRL8
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/IdeaPad/IdeaPad_Slim_5_16IRL8/IdeaPad_Slim_5_16IRL8_Spec.pdf

You need USB 4 or Thunderbolt to use an external GPU. USB 3.2 doesn't support PCIe tunneling. 

I sold my soul for ProSupport.

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1 minute ago, Needfuldoer said:

You need USB 4 or Thunderbolt to use an external GPU. USB 3.2 doesn't support PCIe tunneling. 

And apparently it must be the full fat 40Gbps USB4 not the nerfed 20Gbps USB4. 

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10 minutes ago, Owais345 said:

so this is wrong 

Quora is just search result clutter. I don't consider the 'answers' there any more reliable than ChatGPT.

I sold my soul for ProSupport.

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