{"id":14160,"date":"2025-05-29T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14160"},"modified":"2025-05-24T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:33:04","slug":"usb3-external-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14160","title":{"rendered":"USB3 external GPU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11962\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11962\">connecting an external GPU to your laptop\/NUC system before<\/a>, but now there&#8217;s yet another solution from AMD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tiny Corp showed off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/gpus\/tiny-corp-heralds-worlds-first-amd-gpu-driven-via-usb3-egpus-tested-on-apple-silicon-with-linux-and-windows-also-supported\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/gpus\/tiny-corp-heralds-worlds-first-amd-gpu-driven-via-usb3-egpus-tested-on-apple-silicon-with-linux-and-windows-also-supported\">connecting an AMD GPU over USB3 via libusb<\/a>. It should work on Windows, Linux, and even Mac systems. They use a user space driver to simplify development and is limited to AMD RDNA 3\/4 GPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tinygrad\/tinygrad\/tree\/master\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tinygrad\/tinygrad\/tree\/master\">Github link for the eGPU USB3 feature.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s the worlds first AMD GPU driven over USB3. From a Mac! Linux and Windows should work too, it&#39;s just libusb.<br><br>Available today in tinygrad master, use an ADT-UT3G to connect the GPU to your USB port. You have no idea of the level of engineering that went into this. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V6trNwcGXt\">pic.twitter.com\/V6trNwcGXt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; the tiny corp (@__tinygrad__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/__tinygrad__\/status\/1920960070055080107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about connecting an external GPU to your laptop\/NUC system before, but now there&#8217;s yet another solution from AMD. The Tiny Corp showed off connecting an AMD GPU over USB3 via libusb. It should work on Windows, Linux, and even Mac systems. They use a user space driver to simplify development and is limited to AMD RDNA 3\/4 GPUs. Github link for the eGPU USB3 feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Go","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}