I am building an AMD Ryzen PC, and want eGPUs. Thunderbolt is extremely limited, but I’ve recently seen OCuLink. For example, AOOSTAR AG02 supports USB4 and OCuLink.
The AOOSTAR AG02 is more expensive than some Thunderbolt options, so I’m looking around. What options do I have for non-Thunderbolt eGPU?
You’re building a PC but you want an eGPU? Why? Thunderbolt and occulinks bandwidth limitations have some pretty huge impacts on performance. Why would you want to pay more money to get worse performance?
For laptops eGPUs make sense, but desktops? Not at all.
Thanks for mentioning this, I’ll think about it.
In short, I have a very niche requirement for multiple (at least three) GPUs, but want an mATX build. Performance is unimportant, it’s all for a prototype
If you’re prototyping then why not get a “bench” PC. Basically one that’s on its side and the case is just a frame. They’re designed for people who are tinkering with their PC and constantly swapping hardware.
Whatever you’re prototyping you probably want to prototype the actual use case and not something that maybe 1% of the market share uses.
We might need a bit more context for why you want to do this. Because as far as I can think, I can’t really come up with a reasonable circumstance in which you might want to use an eGPU on a PC