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Comment by IgorPartola | Hacker News Reader

Off topic: can I just say how much I hate TechCrunch articles? Clearly poorly and hastily written, with grammar issues, calling HEVC a "container" format, and WTF is a "Thunderbolt 3 enclosure" when it comes to external graphics cards? Like I get it, first to market wins the ad clicks, but come on. Do we have to keep upvoting this crap on HN?

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A Thunderbolt 3 enclosure for External GPUs is exactly what it sounds like: A GPU that sits external to your computer, and connects to it via Thunderbolt 3.

It's hardly TC's fault you don't know what that is. Just Google it.

I know what an external GPU is. But the external graphics aren't powered by an external GPU "enclosure". They are powered by an external GPU.

The external GPU is in an enclosure and that enclosure doesn't have to have a GPU in it. Most of the Thunderbolt 3 to PCIe enclosures support other PCIe devices.

Exactly. You can put whatever you want in it, but the only thing that people would want to, generally speaking, is a GPU.

Think of a small case with a power supply unit and a single PCEe slot inside. You plug any regular (internal) video card of your choice in it, and connect the case to the main computer via TB3, making the video card available as an external video card. That's a TB enclosure. These things has been for awhile, at least since TB came out.

It's not called eGPU enclosure because technically it can contain any other PCIe card, though it is almost exclusively used for video cards as other devices usually can be powered by TB cable itself.

Thunderbolt 3 enclosure for eGPU sounds like a PCIe slot in a box that you connect with TB3.

> "WTF is a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure"

come on now

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