Laptop GPU upgrade

[Brian Smith]

Hi guys, I’m looking into upgrading the GPU in my laptop and obviously I need to go down the external route. My question is: external GPU’s use thunderbolt 3 to connect the card to the laptop, but my laptop does not have a thunderbolt 3 port, can I use some kind of thunderbolt 3 adapter between the eGPU and the laptop or does the laptop have to have thunderbolt 3 capability built into the laptop. Any advice on how I can achieve this upgrade would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Minstadave]

You can't add TB3 so you're going to struggle.

You can sacrifice an M2 slot if you have more than one but you'd have to cut a hole in your baseplate and it's an ugly bodge.

What laptop have you got?