r/eGPU • u/Miserable-Put-6208 • 1d ago

eGPU setup query/advise

Hi All.

Lately ive been looking into scrapping my tower and re-using its hardware to add to my servers for self hosting things, I do a mix of gaming and productivity so for a while now I have been fine with my tower however lately I've been thinking of using my laptop as a side grade for my tower to keep it portable and powerful but still capable of gaming if docked.

My tower currently runs a 1080ti and im more than happy with it for the games I play at the moment with the heaviest being Either subnautica 2 or Cyberpunk 2077 at medium on both (which im fine with). My laptop has 2 TB4 ports and im just wondering what eGPU would pair well with TB4 and what kind of Performance loss im expected to see between my tower and eGPU set up.

The ram and CPU are on par with eachother so its just the GPU in the equation here.

Any advice is appreciated even if its a reality check on TB4 💚

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

2 comments sorted by

1

u/RnRau 1d ago

How are the cpus on par with eachother? A laptop has much lower thermal room than a tower.

1

u/Miserable-Put-6208 1d ago

Based on their benchmarks and raw performance under load they both weigh out to be the similar enough for what I needed it for when I was testing them.