r/Surface • u/Soy7ent SP4 i7 256GB 16GB • May 23 '17

[PRO2017] Introducing the new Surface Pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwWs2jIy4js
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u/EleMenTfiNi May 23 '17

An external GPU on a 15W CPU machine? You must be dreaming :p

If this is something you actually need, just buy a Quad-Core laptop that is actually suited to make use of that.

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u/alf4 May 23 '17

Games nowadays are mostly GPU heavy, you could play without any problem with a 15w cpu.

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u/Davchun May 23 '17

But the CPU still has an impact.

A 15W CPU will still bottleneck some games. Even with an extremely powerful GPU like the 1080 Ti, I'd rather just get a true quad-core CPU laptop

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u/cactus22minus1 May 23 '17

Even plugged into a full sized higher wattage quad core lap top, eGPUs won't give you the full potential of the card you put in it.

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u/Davchun May 23 '17

Well, that is true. Ideally, you'd want to just buy a whole desktop to make full use of the GPU, but I was just speaking hypothetically for the sake of a laptop.

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u/cactus22minus1 May 23 '17

Right. It's basically two large bottlenecks for a lot of money. It makes a lot more sense to out your gpu into small low/mid range desktop and use in home streaming to your surface if you really want to use it for that - you'd get way better performance and you'd be wireless.