
Keep in mind an external gpu can only drive an external screen. Try first to maxout your machine in a senseful way.įor Gpu underpowererd laptops and mini computers its clearly the only way to get more gpu power, but its prizey. I personally would prefer PCIe solutions, as they also have enough bandwidth for the now established use of system memory for rendering. With opengl aka gaming/ blender-viewport it can be more relevant. While for gpgpu tb2 speeds may be sufficient ( content once loaded into gpu, no more bus traffic ),

There are PCIe, expresscard and now Thunderbold variants.

Here a quickly searched article from Blendernation from the year 2014.Ĭycles can profit a lot from external GPUs, just do some search on the net and in the forum first.Ī quick search for eGPU and Apple shows this from 2017 and it seems to work well and makes rendering much quicker ĮGPU is just another buzzword. To my knowledge, as soon as an eGPU is recognized, Blender can make usage of it.
