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grave totem
warm vigil
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The wifi thing has already been done before, added quite a bit of cost to the gpu and still needed a device to receive the signal on the monitor end

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Ended up just more expensive than just having a normal aib gpu for a worse experience

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USB C could be done though, Turing, RDNA2 and RDNA3 has it (just not thunderbolt, but could do USB 4, same speed but not proprietary)

stiff crag
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Adding the cost of Type-C PD onto the GPU and the monitor would not be worth it for most customers.

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Many gaming monitors exceed 100W power consumption which means now you have to go up to the higher spec PD. For “up to 240w”

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Wi-Fi is also already cable-less so I’m not sure what value that would add in this example.

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Oh also now you have to have a pretty robust boost regulator somewhere in the chain which isn’t particularly efficient to implement so you likely fail regulatory/ecology in many regions.

upper shadow
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What is the use case for having a Thunderbolt interface on the GPU? Wouldn't it be better to have it integrated into the motherboard or on its own PCIe card where it wouldn't steal performance from the GPU's PCIe interface to the rest of the system?

Nvidia had USB-C 10 Gbps interfaces for a while on their RTX video cards for VR headsets and removed them due to the increased cost and lack of adoption.