Each has its pros and cons. Thunderbolt was designed by Intel in 2010 and eGPU enclosures really became viable with Thunderbolt 3, which has a maximum 40 GT/s transfer rate across four PCIe lanes ...

so already Thunderbolt 4 isn't always the bottleneck slowing down connections between a laptop and external drive or eGPU. Thunderbolt 5 has double the bandwidth capacity of Thunderbolt 4 (80 Gbps vs.

When Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt, hallelujahs from the Apple choir were heard. Since very little in any of Apple’s hardware lineup is upgradeable, an external video card is the best of ...

The company says its new Aoostar AG02 eGPU docks will start being shipped ... or an equivalent with eGPUs versus standard USB or Thunderbolt connections— you will lose a lot of performance ...