Alright Kevin. Great video. I was recently looking into having a flexible setup of a laptop combined with an eGPU and came to the same conclusions you have. Even if I’d managed to get the right laptop, CPU etc. It was just going to be so cost prohibitive compared to a much more powerful desktop. I’d recently built an i9 machine with an NVMe boot drive and 32GB RAM for under £1000, extra editing/storage drives, capture cards and GPU are obviously an extra expense. When I looked at something similar as a laptop spec the price was just insane and obviously not as powerful. Plus, the storage and capture options for a laptop are either limited or none existent and the GPU power with a laptop and eGPU combination would never be as good as a desktop. You’re right, for certain people the laptop and eGPU will be a great option but if you’re doing serious editing/production work and/or high end gaming, you’re best option is a desktop system which will be cheaper and more powerful. I’ve no doubt that the laptop/eGPU combo will one day be as powerful, maybe more, as a desktop. BTW. Talking about mobile gaming. Have you ever tried a smartphone connected via DEX? I recently bought a Samsung A90 5G for £350 direct from Samsung with a trade in of an old iPhone 5 for £50 and right now they’ve got a cash back offer for the same phone that works out at £320 without the need for a trade in. This phone is 6GB/128GB and weirdly not only has 5G but a Snapdragon 855. The Snapdragon basically makes it more powerful than any UK bought S10. It’s cameras aren’t as good etc. and it’s screen res is lower but is still a HD+ Super AMOLED. It’s basically a less specified but more powerful Note 10+ or similar, for almost a third of the price right now. Anyway. It’s the first A range phone of Samsung’s to have DEX compatibility and with the 855 and its GPU it’s not only a great phone for gaming but when you dock it with a £20 Amazon DEX compatible interface, it becomes a serious desktop game machine for certain games that allow gamepad control. I’m proper old school and can’t play with keyboards and mice :) Seriously, with certain games it feels like at least a PS3 but with 1080/60P. I’m just trying to find a good cooling solution for it as a desktop game machine. I’m not into playing on such a small screen or with touch but maybe in the future the smartphone will take over as the main gaming platform with the ability to dock and go mobile. I’m gonna do some videos next week about this A90 and do some examples to start putting content on my other channel. Check out this video of COD mobile with a gamepad on DEX kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m91mZc2rrdqUc5s.html Cheers, Dave.

Continued listening because of the accent.

I've used an EGPU laptop setup now for 2+ years and it has been a versatile, awesome nightmare overall. I'm a photographer/videographer who also games in my freetime so i'm frequently switching between laptop/desktop and it's extremely efficient for my field work. But when it comes to gaming, there are only a handful of games that don't crash frequently. I'm tech savvy, I've done everything and have optimized a minimal setup with the most basic driver configuration and sill get issues under load in games. The bottleneck in an egpu setup is unavoidable and this bottleneck will behave very differently in video games. General rule of thumb is to strip away anything that increases this bottleneck (not only to the cpu but to the power supply). Quick tips for people who have an eGPU: consider upgrading to an apple thunderbolt .8 cable, if your egpu has any ports other than the thunderbolt...dont use them, turn kernel DMA protection off, if your egpu comes with software that manipulates the lighting...dont use it, always install the most minimal version of your updated graphics drivers (amd allows the option to install the "driver only"). If your laptop comes with any internal graphics, turn it off in device manager when using your egpu, and finally I strongly recommend you do a fresh windows 11 install before you buy your new gpu. These changes have made games that were previously unplayable, crash every few hours and have dramatically increased stability of my other games. I play plenty of titles on max settings without a crash for hours on this setup. I have also never had a crash within windows or editing/exporting huge video files. The crashing is only an issue while gaming. Dont buy an EGPU setup unless you need one, and if you still want one, get ready to NOT have anything work properly out of the box. It will take lots of time and tweaks to get everything nice and stable.

You just saved me such a headache. I didn't think about this problem and you did an amazing job explaining the challenge and why an external eGPU would not work for me. For real, you just saved me money and time in returning everything as well as all that frustration. I feel a weight has been lifted.

70 % is more than enough of not using any graphics for video editing, since my company is limited with Thinkpad laptop

There is no free lunch. Sure a desktop is always better, more powerful and cost less, but you can't bring your desktop to the coffee shop, or on the plane to your oversea trip. For some people, the portability and flexibility of the laptop and eGPU dock setup would worth far more than the 20% bottleneck.

Thank you so much for this! You have been such a big help :)

great video, and extremely ON THE POINT! thankyou

Good points here. From my experience I noticed that gaming on a eGPU was okay at best. Typically lag spikes would occur often enough to frustrate anyone. With that being said I didn't originally buy the eGPU for gaming. I am a 3D artist, and at the time I had a gaming laptop with Thunderbolt 3. I decided to get a $200 (at the time) eGPU enclosure from Sonnet and a 1060 for it. My use case, and the best use case I have found is using it for extra GPU compute for rendering in CUDA accelerated applications. Or as a display adapter for 3D Modeling to handle extra poly counts. This use case works since its not having to update the screen non-stop like it would in games. To me if you're a 3D artist and want extra performance from your TB3 enable laptop then go for it. I am about to do the same thing for my work office so I don't have to drag my desktop workstation around. But that is my two cents.

Great video. Thanks for the advice

This is super helpful!

Top notch information mate 😇

This video is a great help, although I'm also not good enough with technology to know whether or not these limitations apply to my specific situation...so I wondered if you'd mind me asking your advice? I have a HP pavillion laptop that, since I installed an SSD has always been great for my needs until I started needing it to edit videos on Davinci Resolve. I keep running into trouble due to the GPU being stretched. My laptop came with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, which I imagine isn't the best for high end video editing. All the advice I've been given tells me I should basically buy a good desktop computer for all my needs but all the ones I'm recommended cost over £1000 and I just can't afford that. I gather eGPU is still also expensive though I hope less so... but I don't want to splash out on that if it won't work. I know it's quite a difficult question to answer, but what would your advice be?

really well explained. Thanks Kevin! Good idea, but I should stick to the workstation/gaming desktop.

Super awesome reminder! Glad I saw this before making the purchase! Thank you! This is an honest reminder amongst all the sponsored videos! In this day and age, we really need honest and earnest ppl like you! Thanks again! And, btw, where are you from? Is that an Irish accent?

I think I might get one with the intention of putting the gpu in a tower im going to have built eventually anyway

Good point.

I have Lenovo P50 workstation with 32GB RAM and i7 it is a powerhouse and I agree that a eGPU will work wonders for me gaming on the go... Looking at the AORUS GTX 1070 GAMING BOX by the way as a light weight option to boost gaming and graphics when needed! Thank you so much for the info and your points!

Would you be able to take a few different cards and compare the framerates they give in different games while in a desktop and then again while in an e-GPU enclosure? I'm thinking about grabbing an XPS 13 and egpu enclosure for just the sort of best of both worlds setup. The 25w limit on the i7-1065g7 in the laptop model XPS 13 puts it at about 10% faster in benchmarks than my current desktop with an i7-4790 so I don't think the CPU will really bottleneck my RX 580 much. What I really want to know is just how much performance is lost to the limited bandwidth of that x4 connection and how much more pronounced that becomes (if at all) as you upgrade the card.

Wow you’ve actually just helped me save nearly £900 which would have gone into buying a razer core x chroma and an rtx 2080, but now it’s all going towards a tower. Cheers Kevin :)

How does the eGPU work with a Oculus Rift S VR? I would like to use it to bring it at a friend's house

How would you go about using egpu without purchasing an epgu enclosure? Is there a bare bones system that I could create? Can I just purchase a gpu and somehow connect it over thunderbolt?

I have a Dell XPS 1645 core i7 qm, is it worth to install an external graphic card for it? Thanks

One thing to note is that for if you already have decent laptop and plan to build a decent gaming PC with limited budget, good but cheap eGPU adapter like TH3P4G3 from EXP GDC is a viable options. As long as: - your local market have a decent demand for second hand eGPU adapter. - you already have rough spec for your build. - you're comfortable buying one or two part at a time. Rather than saving for one big purchase. E.g with budget of roughly 350 USD a month I can buy corsair 1200w platinum + rx 6700xt + TH3P4G3 within 2 month. Enjoy decent gaming performance in my work laptop (T480) while slowly buying up other parts for my final build, with CPU and Mobo as last purchase to ensure future proofing. After which I plan to sell the adapter. Granted, this is very specific case that came about due to our weak currency (IDR) making computer parts's price quite unstable.

I already have a dell G5 with a I-7 8750k, 16GB DDR4 Ram, but a 1050ti. Would it be worth it to get an eGpu or just save up for a new PC?

I would say the best part about eGPU os that: -you can upgrade the GPU when you upgrade your CPU/Laptop -you can connect the eGPU to multiple laptops at home -you can buy cheaper, used laptops that only have integrated graphics, so you save money in the long run. The only negative side is the eGPU enclosure itself, its bulky, you can really carry it around. But for my use it's ok.

Everything in this video is pretty right on. Minus ever being bottlenecked by 16 gb of ram. That just wouldn't happen. And as you go up in resolution you'd see more of a benefit. But yes, I agree it's generally not the best option for your money.

I have a 2018 MacBook Air. I been gaming hard on the Sims 4. It runs fine on the Mac on medium graphics but it heats up pretty fast. I only have the base game.and I want to get the expansion packs for that. But before I do that, Im really thinking of getting an eGPU with a graphics card. Will it run good on Mac OS instead of bootcamping windows on it?

My budget gaming laptop has a very beefy cpu, but a relatively weak gpu. I wonder if an egpu would be worth, or if the bottleneck from thunderbolt gpu would level it out to just mildly better frame rate.

Apparently 10th gen CPU has TB3 built right into the CPU bypassing the TB3 controller now which makes eGPU performance better. What do you think about eGPU now?

Just recently got the dell latitude 2 in 1 for my school I'm an enginnering student and had a lenovo flex 15 with the mx230 gpu but got rid iof it because I didn't need the internal graphics card. Was planning on using an epu now for other stuff I'm ok gaming at medium or high at 1080p 60fps.

short question is an egpu worth it if I only have usb 3.1 (5gbit/s or 10Gbit/s im not quite shure what I have)? or do you need more than 10Gbit/s of data transfer for eGpu? Thanks

Now we need the eCPU. Perhaps a combo. That brings up an interesting question. Could you add CPU power through PCIe?

Hi Kevin, really informative video! My question is that will i see appreciable gain from attaching an egpu to my MSI Titan GT76 (Corei9 9900/128GB/Rtx2080) to a Titan RTX for usage in 3d content building and game engine rendering ( unity/unreal)? I personally like the idea of not having to reinstall all the programs and files.

i actually dont mind having my cpu being worse as the main reason i want an eGPU is for blender and blender tends to be GPU intensive

Hey kevin ! Mate I totally agree with you, that's why I am not ready to throw some cash on egpu solution yet, but what do you think about dell n5010 i7 1gen would it be Ok to try egpu on it?

glad I watched this video before I bought the razer egpu

Nice presentation! Can you give me some advice for the question I have: I have a laptop (Tosiba satellite, intel i5-2410 cpu, window 7 home premium), and the max screen resolution is only 1366x768. For some trading software application, It requires higher screen resolution (e.g., 1920x1080), do you think an eGPU may help? If yes, what model will you suggest? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Great video, what if the new Ryzen (8 core CPUs if increased to 20-25W instead of 15) would be inside instead and have a 32Gb setup. Would this setup be able to run a VR Game ? What do you think? A gaming PC would cost around 3600 Euros (Ryzen 3950x, RTX 2080Ti, 32GB Ram DDR4 3600, X570 motherboard, cooling and NVME SSD, No monitor or wireless keyboard and mouse), add to it an amazing ultrabook like the the HP spectre 360 2in1 4kOLED (1800 Euros) and it would break the bank (total of around 7500 Euros, if a the monitor was 1000Euros 144Hz, 1ms, 4k, G-Sync, plus Valve Index kit). But this way I would have the best of all worlds :P lol. While having a powerfull 2 in 1 (Ryzen 4900U for eg.) say 2000 Euros and buying an eGPU would cost an extra of 1500Euros (RTX 2080Ti + Case) that would be saving me lots of money.

Thank you for the opposing argument! I would have spent 1 grand for nothing

Nice explanation. I have a dell precision m2800 with an i7 4810MQ quad core and a Amd FirePro 4170m 2GB gpu with 16 gigs of ram. Do you think that would be a bottleneck For an Egpu? Thanks.

I have A 2018 Dell XPS 13 I7 1.8hz, 16bg RAM, Planning to get the Core X Chroma with the RTX 2070 Super, already have a QHD ultrawide monitor, will it work with no problem?

The CPU must match the type of GPU you plan to use - but as a miner - it really doesn't matter - we don't use the CPU much at all - we want the GPU and it's power! It's a win win for miners - if you have high end GPU's lying around - but the cost now - I wouldn't recommend.

This guy talk so much sense.

Spent 20 on a PSU, 50 on a 750ti and 25 on a exp gdc adapter for an old laptop, from Intel HD to 750ti on competitive games anyone will get 100 more fps or more

Ate there any egpu with dual channel tb3 ports so you can hook it up to dual tb3 port for 80gbs instead of 40gbs bandwidth.

I would like to ask about the possibility of a cpu bottleneck, I assume you would just need a cpu that's as powerful as one that you would put into a desktop with the same gpu, or do you need a disproportionately powerful cpu to get the same performance out of an egpu? I have a convertible laptop with a Ryzen 7 and 16GB RAM, it can handle the Hitman games and anything less demanding on its own without issue but there's still some games that are out of reach for me.

I have a intel core i5-5200U 2.20GHz 8gb ram, I would also like try to upgrade my graphics card to a GTX 750. I’m only planning to play older games on it though. Do you think it’s necessary for me to upgrade?

You hit the keyword on this topic, CPU! Most important thing to consider when thinking on use eGPU

Hi Kevin. You spoke of bottlenecks in your video and an approximate 70% performance reduction; I'm wondering if you could elaborate on this idea? I get that I'm not going to have desktop-like performance out of an eGPU setup, however, if I knew the limitations I might be able to get more value out of the hardware I have. For example: should I simply rule out high-performance GPUs for the sake of not getting the performance? I'd like to think there is a sweet spot where GPU performance on Thunderbolt 3 has the best value.

From my experience with EGPU they run very well when you have a decent graphics card, decent cpu i7 (no less) and running it at resolutions of 1440p and 4k for some reason the performance dip is on 1080p there is a big gap on fps. But if you didn't have the FPS counter on you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a egpu and a inbuild PCIe graphics. Where you will see bad performance is if you get a shit graphics card if your Laptops dedicated gpu can outperform you egpus then you need to think about your graphics card choice. I use a macbook pro 15 inch though so the specs tend to be alot better than most PC slim laptops so I haven't had an issue in that regard. From the numbers though its still much cheaper to get a egpu with a decent graphics card than to buy a high spec PC for gaming and video editing etc.

So i already have a laptop with a CPU Intel Core i7-7700HQ 2.80GHz ,8GB RAM and a GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050. Would it make sense to buy a eGPU?

I have a Lenovo P72 with a Xeon E2176M, 128GB RAM, and a Quadro P4200M (Max Q) and was able to play Cyberpunk 2077 but it's been struggling with Starfield. No matter how low put the settings or the resolution, it just doesn't seem to have the GPU power to have a good experience consistently. I've been trying to determine if my setup makes sense for an eGPU and based on what you say here, it sounds like my situation is one of the better cases for one, yeah?

Hi Kevin, I have just over £1450 to get a laptop + an eGPU, I can get a pretty good pc for that price, but i prefer a laptop for movement purposes. What would you recommend? With the GPU Shortage a 1080ti can reach £800. Not for a budget really. Also got to buy a mouse, some spray paint , monitor, monitor arm, lights and cables. Let me know what you recommend

I'm looking to buy the full spec HP specter 360 (2020) with the ice lake 10th gen i7, though I'm not a huge gamer (btw massive appreciation and respect to all you gamers who have helped me with questions in the past! You're epic!) there are a few games i really enjoy, COD, assassins creed, witcher, perhaps a few more in the future, would an eGPU be me worth purchasing with that processor?

Can I plug the eGPU through a TB3 dock that sits at home. Or would I have to plug the dock (which connects to the displays) in one port and the eGPU into a 2nd port?

With new advancements in thunderbolt 4, pcie 5.0 and usb 4 type c soon coming to laptops in 2022, would speed and bandwidth still cause issues? Price wouldn’t be an issue because it’s written off as business expense.

I think things have changed drastically since this video was released. A gaming laptop from 2019 had a CPU which according to the benchmarks performs slightly worse than a CPU from a slim notebook from today. I bought a gaming laptop at the end of 2019 with an RTX 2080 and a medium to high spec i7 chip at the time. I can manage 60 FPS in Fortnite with max settings and double that with average settings (not the best benchmark I know). I'm now looking at a laptop with no integrated graphics with a CPU that is 15% better than my old one (even though it's not the best one available today, it's still better than what I had due to advances in tech). The laptop is super light, thin with a great battery life (LG Gram 17). Even if I can get the same performance on my new laptop as my old one using an eGPU, I'd be happy enough but looking at the spec, I'm destined to get at least a 50% improvement using a RTX 3080. That's enough for light/casual gamers. It isn't an efficient way to operate but I don't think the CPU gap is an issue anymore for most people who have portability requirements.

great vid! wish i saw this before i got my egpu. any chance you setup a egpu with a dell xps13? I have it setup for mine (32gb ram and i7) but for some random reason the laptop freezes even if there's nothing running. wonder if you've seen that or if you can direct me to an articlet that can help me troubleshoot. thanks!

just for a portable set up

Will integrated and external graphics card work simultaneously or only external graphics card works?

I have an old gaming laptop with an excellent cpu but the mxm gpu went bad.(I'm not sure if it's the card or the slot) I'm not going to buy some fancy external GPU setup because I like the Frankenstein look.

hey kevin do you think the hp compaq 8000 elite ultra slim would work with a mpcie cable (about 30$) and a graphics card and psu (it has a net card slot can i use it?)

Something that's been on my mind as of the past 30 minutes is the thought of having an eGPU for my Toshiba satellite which uses a intel i5 4210U 2 core processor and is currently running manjaro linux (might switch distros or return to windows 10 if still possible). The gpu of choice would either be a gt 710 with 2 gb ddr3, pcie 2.0 and hdmi support or a gtx 1660s with 6 gb of gpu memory (can't recall further details because I don't have the box). The built in display doesn't work so I would have an external monitor in use running at 1080p 60 hz. I ran both options through a bottleneck calculator and the bottleneck for the gt710 went as high as over 40% whereas the 1660s didn't go over 6%. Would like your thoughts on if this could possibly be a good idea or if this idea would go terribly wrong :P

Hi i have a acer aspire 3 specs is core i5 10th gen and mx230 it has a m.2 slot is it possible to put a external gpu on that?because I heard that aspire are white listed

I bought Razer Core X recently and connect to my Dell Laptitude 7390 with 8th i7 / 16 ram. There is great difference if I output the video to a external monitor from my RTX-3060 rather than only return video to my laptop display. The FPS has improved over a double even I played 3A gaming. The critical point is, if you only return image to the laptop screen, I will increase the capacity of the TB3. Based on the factory advice, it will affect around 30% performance drop. So don't worry about the CPU bottleneck if you transit the video to an external monitor. I can say, the eGPU is good to anyone if their laptop only have an onboard GPU but would like to enjoy gaming or high efficient on graphic works.

What if I’m just looking to stream on streamlabs from my x box at a good frame rate. I have an xps 15 btw with a GTX 1660 super

Your video is good for consideration before buyiing eGPU. However, the critical point is that you need to output video directly from the display card to an external monitor through DP or HDMI. Otherwise, you will not see the great improvement if you just return the image to your laptop monitor.

Okay, I'm a bit confused, would the CPU be an issue because it's possessing the the extra stuff from the egpu or would issue just be the CPU being less powerful than the egpu?

i play on a ps4 only i have a rlly good i7 laptop but with no graphics card and its only used for work should i get an epu also im not aloud to sell

Sir ,i have lenovo ideapad S340 laptop , having I7 10th generation processor, 8 GB ram, 512 SSD , 4 GB Integrated iris plus graphics card with it. My laptop has only 128 mb VRAM. I want to run solidworks in my laptop. 1) will i face any problem with graphics while running solidworks? 2) can i use eGPU for my laptop to run solidworks? 3) and if yes, which egpu is best for students to run engineering based software like solidworks?

I own a Alienware 15 r2 laptop. I use it for video editing în davinci resolve. Sometimes the GPU memory gets full. I still wonder if I'll need an external GPU (alienware graphic amplifier) or not. Sometimes I need the portability of a laptop and other times I need a more powerful system, without breaking the bank. Could be an eGPU for me? Thanks.

How about the other way round. If you have a CPU like an AMD 7 5800x with a eGPU using Radeon 580X?

What about that surface pro? I have the surface pro 5, and I just ordered an egpu razer x core. Did I make a good investment?

Is that an Orange Peli 1200 case in the background? :)

Upgraded my Alienware M18R2 laptop. Has 2 680m's. Many games no longer SLI so i added a Titan X to my laptop with an external EGPU through the Express port. Direct pcie lane contact. Get 4x in the lane. Yes its not like it would be on a desktop but hell, i now have 12 gb of vram vs 2gb per 680m. Performance is actually great and can run 4k with 60+ frames per second. Now let me say this, the Alienware laptop i have is a full gaming laptop with the 3840QM extreme and 32 gb of ddr3 ram with one m.2 and 2 solid state drives. Not your average laptop

cpu wont necessarily be the limiting factor. it can be but usually it'll be the bandwidth over the TB3 port. 30-40% performance loss is unfortunately common

I am gonna use m.2 to egpu my m.2 slot is PCIe 3.0 x4 3 I know it’s gonna limit but is it bad as the thunderbolt

So basically to sum it up, eGPU’s can boost your laptops but only to a certain extent. And this is because if your CPU maxes out, your GPU can’t increase any further?

So.. how to choose the optimum compatible egpu with any old laptop? Thanks

Do all egpus need thunderbolt 3 compatible laptops or are there some that can plug into a hdmi or usb-c or something?

hey i need some advice, i spoke to my mom and dad and they said agreed to get me a gaming pc once i do well in my march examination. so i want to get advice on what to get. i thought of getting an RTX 3070 and an intel core i9 9900k. Now what else do i need to get for my pc

I got i7 3rd gen 8gb ram with GT740m, I also like to try egpu for my laptop, I like to try RX 590 it will work?

Great vid but do you think an egpu would work for the oculus link

I've been wondering if can you edit 4k video in premier Pro with this or another eGPU?

I don’t understand why the egpu cases are damn expensive

Out of Curiosity I have an Alienware M15 R6 with a RTX 3060 GPU and an 11th Gen I7 processor with 32 gigs of ram I was interested in an EGPU and you said you also have an M15 what would you say is the performance boost on your laptop? I Was looking into get an RTX 4080 with an EGPU but I am afraid that the bottlenecks that'll occur would not be worth spending $1200

great video,but i have an hp omen with an i7850h and 16gb ram but it has a GTX 1050,is a eGPU worth it?

Will i7-4600U (2-cores 4-threads 2.1Ghz 2.7Ghz turbo),2x4GB DDR3L RAM and GTX 1650 bottleneck? Because I tried i5 3470 and 1650 and it works perfectly

I wish I would have seen this video sooner. Already bought a Core X w/ a 5700XT and realized the poor performance. Please make another video about this and title it "eGPU Setup" so that more people come across this information. People looking up eGPU set-ups have most likely already made up their minds about purchasing an eGPU.

I have razer 15 i7-9750H 1660ti gpu. My friend wants to sell his 2months old razer egpu for "friendly price" cos he got new desktop now. Pls advice me if im going to take it and if yes, what GPU you recommend sir? Btw, im a heavy gamer and i do video and photo editing as well. Thnk you

Hey Kevin I have ryzen 5 4600h laptop with 6cores 12 threads and gtx1650...I wanna upgrade to rtx2060 will it limit my gpu performance??

Few days back i bought HP pavilion gaming 15 R5 4600H 8 Gb 3200mhz ram GTX 1650 GDDR6 initially i thought building a desktop but I'm a programmer so i need portability , now the weak point is the GPU in my laptop with in one year 1650 will appear in min req in upcoming games sys req

I am interested in Redshift CUDA Rendering for Cinema 4D projects. This wasn't addressed. Guess I got to keep doing research.

Hi my laptop has a ryzen 5 3500u and Ive been thinking of getting an eGPU. Im planning to buy an NVIDIA GPU probably between 1660 super to 2070 super. I will buy the glu to get it ready for my PC because Im saving up for now and I just want to game.

There is an advantage when using intel icelake! thunderbolt 3 on icelake doesnt doesnt go throu the chipset, it runs throu the cpu. this gains more of a precentage of gpu usage through an egpu and thunderblot 3 using icelake! gains are about 20 to 27% higher than normal thunderbolt 3 with egpu!

Do you think a six-core CPU would bottleneck card with an eGPU? I got my laptop with a Intel Core i7-8750H in case I wanted to use an eGPU in a few years.

Man I bought a Gigabyte Aero 15S OLED with a i7 9750H (newegg says it's a 6 core and gigabyte says it's an 8 so not sure, will know when it gets here), NVIDIA 1660 ti (not sure if it's Max-Q), 16gbs of ram and I had the intention of using an eGPU but with this I'm not sure if it's gonna be a good idea. It'll be mainly an editing set-up with casual gaming on the side.

I have a intel celeron n4100 what egpu is best for me plss answer

what gpu is best compatible for celeron 1007U to avoid bottleneck?