[traderj0e]

Been hearing this for over a decade, except back then it was eGPU in Intel Macs which were closer to other PCs if anything. Even if this didn't require so much DIY and if Thunderbolt could do PCIe speeds, most people don't want to add drama when they can just use a PC with regular PCIe slots and native compatibility with Nvidia. The native way already has enough edge cases without adding an unusual setup.

[zer0zzz]

What would be native enough here? What if they got Asahi working with NV gpus for rendering and running cuda kernels? Would eGPU on asahi be sufficient or do you really only see pcie worthwhile?

Some of us mainly want more gpu options on a high performance consumer arm machine (for Linux).

[traderj0e]

Thunderbolt still doesn't provide the full PCIe bandwidth, but even if it did, I'd want PCIe itself. I don't trust the encapsulated version over Thunderbolt to work the same.

Virtualized Linux would be ok though. That's what datacenters already do with their GPUs, albeit on x86 not ARM. Doesn't need to be Asahi, cause that's unlikely to completely work.

[zer0zzz]

That's understandable.