Gonna be interesting to see if the community effort to get an oculink port goes anywhere, would make using it with an eGPU much more viable.
Regardless, it sounds pretty great from this review and the upgradable backslot is a massive achievement.
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We certainly hope so! We handed some early adapter boards to the community members who were working on it, so we hope that they'll be able to show some initial prototypes quickly.
What’s the advantage of Oculink over regular Thunderbolt/USB4 for eGPU ?
Essentially instead of running a not so trivial stack on both ends to handle USB4/TB4 virtual channel system over which you then tunnel PCIE L2 packets, it's straightforward, unmodified, PCIE connection with at most retimers/signal conditioners on both ends.
OTOH, it's only PCIE signal.
Reduced protocol overhead allowing for greater throughput. It is native PCIe.