SFF.Network GPD BOX Starts Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign for Panther Lake Powered Mini-PC with MCIO 8i Link

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Article Written By Christopher Moine, SFFN Senior Editor
 
The GPD BOX Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign has been announced. Measuring 175mm
(width) x 134mm (depth), and 39.5mm (height), the GPD BOX sets itself apart from most mini-PCs by including a built-in 160 watt PSU, and MCIO 8i Link port. The former is a rare site with mini-PCs as most use an external power brick of some sort, while the latter allows for up to 63 gigabytes per second eGPU bandwidth. This is on par with an 8X PCIe 5.0 slot, and should allow for nearly the full performance of most GPUs. The GPD BOX Indiegogo page is claiming only 2% performance loss with a RTX 4090, though this will need to be confirmed with independent testing.
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[confusis]

Given the aim towards high performance compute - be it AI or otherwise - with all the expansion, it seems rather odd to max the RAM out at 64GB, especially given it'll be shared.

I mean, it's well outside my price range, but I can still judge

 

[Revenant]

Given the aim towards high performance compute - be it AI or otherwise - with all the expansion, it seems rather odd to max the RAM out at 64GB, especially given it'll be shared.

I mean, it's well outside my price range, but I can still judge

I think so as well. I would have expected up to 96GB or 128GB. What bothers me more is the soldered memory. This is going to put a hard time-limit on viability of this system in the long term.