Razer Core X eGPU - Question on older GPU's

[doobybiggs]

I am in the market for one of these and I think this seems to be one of the better ones out there at the moment. My question is I have a perfectly functioning Nvidia 460TI GPU that I would like to use ... however it is not listed in the compatibility section as far as I can see ... Has anyone had success using GPU's not covered on the list?

Mainly it would help pass the time until I can pick up a 5700XT to swap it out with ...

 

[satcomer]

The only thing about it it wouldn’t except modern NVIDIA cards! Plus its power supply is only 400!

 

[GrumpyCoder]

Isn't it rated for 500W? I don't have the regular X, only two of the Chroma versions. I'd guess any card that macOS supports works via eGPU. My Radeon VII works, my Nvidia Titan RTX doesn't, since there are no drivers available.

 

[satcomer]

Isn't it rated for 500W? I don't have the regular X, only two of the Chroma versions. I'd guess any card that macOS supports works via eGPU. My Radeon VII works, my Nvidia Titan RTX doesn't, since there are no drivers available.

Blame NVIDIA hating Apple sense the Steve Jobs era! There will NEVER be a pn NVIDIA drivers especially after their chip change!

 

[GrumpyCoder]

Blame NVIDIA hating Apple sense the Steve Jobs era! There will NEVER be a pn NVIDIA drivers especially after their chip change!

Well, I certainly don’t blame Apple for going AMD. NVidia sucks, plain and simple. For anything graphics and visualization related AMD and whatever Apple comes up with is just fine.

For research, there’s no way around Nvidia with Cuda and all their software tools for autonomous driving, robotics, genetics, ... you name it, they have it. Building a HPC cluster with a few hundred or thousand GPUs is easy. AMD has nothing in comparison. We’re running V100s in our Dell clusters, RTX8000 in desktop workstations.

Still, as far as quality goes, NVidia sucks. Whenever a speak to colleagues who’ve also been around a bit in the research world, universities, CERN, you name it, it’s always the same story and mirrors my experience. NVidia everywhere. Last year there was an incident at DFS in Germany, who monitor all air traffic. Due to an NVidia bug, they had to shut down the system and do everything manually. They called in a horde of developers who wrote a fix Within 24h around the NVidia bug. Should not happen in critical systems.