• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Is USB4 able to use an external GPU?

        Yes but it would be BS to use one with a power-contrained CPU like the Deck’s.

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          1 year ago

          Yes but it would be BS to use one with a power-contrained CPU like the Deck’s.

          You could bump up the resolution and graphical settings at least, even if you’re constrained in framerate and in CPU limited games. Although I believe the eGPU support on Linux isn’t great at this point either.

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        1 year ago

        yes, USB4 has thunderbolt in the spec. The cpu on the deck is just fine for games but the gpu with shared memory is really it’s biggest bottleneck.