When it comes to creative work, your equipment shouldn’t hold you back. Whether you’re working with 4K/8K footage,...
At first glance, it may seem that connecting a high-performance graphics card via an external eGPU enclosure limited to a Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, or USB4 interface with a port bandwidth of 40 Gb/s, or approximately 5 GB/s, should result in a significant performance drop. For comparison, a standard PCIe 4.0 x16 slot offers a bandwidth of up to 32 GB/s. Since the difference is more than sixfold, why are the actual losses in games and applications usually only 10%, reaching a maximum of 20%?
