alt Hacker News> GPU is limited by the Thunderbolt port
I thought Thunderbolt was like pluggable PCI? The whole point was not to limit peripherals.
> GPU is limited by the Thunderbolt port
I thought Thunderbolt was like pluggable PCI? The whole point was not to limit peripherals.
There's more to peripheral limits than the protocol used. Thunderbolt connections offer higher latency and limits on bandwidth. Both, either, or neither of those things may be much of an actual problem (depending on the use case) but they are some examples of limits vs native PCIe.