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by navaati 871 days ago
What’s the advantage of Oculink over regular Thunderbolt/USB4 for eGPU ?
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Essentially instead of running a not so trivial stack on both ends to handle USB4/TB4 virtual channel system over which you then tunnel PCIE L2 packets, it's straightforward, unmodified, PCIE connection with at most retimers/signal conditioners on both ends.

OTOH, it's only PCIE signal.

Reduced protocol overhead allowing for greater throughput. It is native PCIe.