[michaelgreen]

So I've been using an eGPU for about 3 months now and it is amazing. This isn't officially supported so you end up having to do a lot of work arounds to get things like tensorflow/pytorch working.

It doesn't let you hot plug your eGPU into your computer (you have to restart for it to work) but for officially supported eGPUs you're now able to do that.

I've trained various models using a Titan XP and it's so awesome to be able to maintain the portability of your laptop and still get all of that power. A large benefit is also not having to move training data around between servers and other machines if you have it on an external drive or just on your laptop.

After you get everything up and running there isn't that much maintenance or anything you have to do regularly to keep it working. The speedup is incredible and it was definitely worth it for me personally, however it's not a walk in the park to get it set up initially.

[dmix]

Neat. Have you tried it with any games?

[michaelgreen]

I've tried it with an external monitor which works great but I haven't tried it with any games. From looking at the eGPU forums it seems like people aren't running into that many problems with it.