Among all the components that we can currently find on the market are graphics cards, which as we well know are part of the internal structure of a computer, although there is a way to use them externally. This is where the casings would come in to eGPU that simply take advantage of specific hardware to allow the incorporation of a dedicated graphics card and to be able to use it through a connector such as OCuLink or even Thunderbolt/USB-C in several cases, although the new box that has been presented Sparkle It seems more designed to house an entire computer.
The eGPU are a solution for those looking to incorporate the power offered by a graph dedicated to a system that normally could not use it such as laptops, but they are not very famous because they are expensive and also work much worse. The main reason they have lower performance is that obviously by having to connect them via a cable to the PC instead of using the PCIe connector, they cannot take full advantage of what they really offer, something that many companies are trying to solve by offering a series of technologies capable of improving performance when connecting a device via a cable.
A large box to… store an external graphics card?
The graphics cards that we are seeing with the latest generations of both AMD and NVIDIA have really large sizes, this means that if we want to incorporate one we have to look for a case for our PC with a fairly considerable size. But what would happen if we wanted to use an eGPU of this type? Well, it is quite clear that a casing with the size of the one you presented Sparkle during CES, which in addition to being extremely large, is also the brand’s first to incorporate Thunderbolt 5.
We may be quite surprised by its size since it has dimensions of 40 x 20 x 24 cm, but it is quite understandable considering that current graphics cards only take up about 30 cm in length and even more depending on the model. But it must be clarified that this box also obviously needs a power supply only for the GPU, and is prepared to support even NVIDIA’s flagship model, the RTX 5090 (with a consumption of 575W), since it incorporates a power supply of 850 W that has a 16-pin 12VHPWR connector.
In addition to all this, it also has a series of additional functions such as the ability to use a USB Type-C cable to charge other devices by offering up to 100 W, while it also even includes an Ethernet port and several USB Type A. What We do not know if it will incorporate the PCIe 5.0 interface, something that is absolutely necessary for new generation graphics, although we obviously know that it will have Thunderbolt 5 as we indicated at the beginning and that it will allow it to offer a bandwidth of between 80-120 Gbps.
We also don’t know what the price will be, but this type of hardware is not usually cheap considering everything it includes, so it is likely to easily exceed €300.
