RSomnambulist t1_j84q6lw wrote on February 11, 2023 at 4:46 PM

Reply to comment by MrAcurite in Framework now sells 2TB Steam Deck upgrade drives. by SUPRVLLAN

The efficiency loss can get as low as 8% on the last comparisons I saw. That may be even lower now. Also means you can have a much slimmer, cooler laptop. I nearly went this route last laptop I bought, but I ended up finding a steal when walmart refreshed their laptops to the 2000 series.

MrAcurite t1_j84zae1 wrote on February 11, 2023 at 5:48 PM

Interesting. I seem to recall losses as high as 40%, so 8% is an improvement. I'm still somewhat iffy about the usecases though, where laptop + eGPU beats both laptop with dGPU and laptop + desktop. I'm sure it's good for someone, though.

RSomnambulist t1_j86somw wrote on February 12, 2023 at 1:45 AM

I think 8% was not with a thunderbolt 3/USBC, but a direct line into the mobo with a pci-e extender.

40% is extreme though. That may be for TB2. It is a weird edge case regardless.