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Not quite. Note that Thunderbolt 2 can do 2x20G/bits/ per second, vs PCI-E v3 at 32G/bytes/ per second (on a 16x slot).

Refs:

- http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/19/pci-express-makes-the-3-0...

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pci_express

- http://www.zdnet.com/intel-unveils-thunderbolt-2-7000016595/

- http://www.tomshardware.com/news/lucid-gpu-graphics-thunderb...

- http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pci-express-graphics-thu...

TL;DR external video cards via Thunderbolt help but can't hang in terms of performance with real internal cards. (edited for formatting)




I was looking at that kind of thing as well and the only thing that's worth noting is that I think a lot of video cards currently actively used are only 16x so they can be run on older motherboards with pcie 1 or 2.

It's not clear that thunderbolt 2 isn't enough bandwidth to effectively run a video card, though I think you'd probably run into problems daisy chaining video cards with video cards or trying to run two out of one enclosure.




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