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Also documented in NVIDIA driver docs Chapter 34.

Main article is PRIME#PRIME GPU offloading. internal laptop screen) work out-of-the-box, PRIME display offload can be used for monitors attached to eGPU.

Xorg starts even with eGPU disconnected, but render/display offload will not work until it is restarted.

Programs are rendered on iGPU by default, but PRIME render offload can be used to render them on eGPU.

Xorg rendered on iGPU, PRIME render offload to eGPU Alternatively, a layer to reorder GPUs during enumeration can be activated with the same effect: _NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 vkcube or equivalently prime-run vkcube. Vulkan may enumerate GPUs independently of Xorg, so in order to run for example vkcube in this setup, one may need to pass -gpu_number 1 option.

You may want to run this command before a display manager shows login propmt or before desktop environment starts, see Xrandr#Configuration and Xinit. Its presence prevents all-screens-black situation. Note: The xrandr -auto is optional and may be substituted by any RandR-based display configuration tool. # Load modesetting module for the iGPU, which should show up in XrandR 1.4 as a provider. Option "AllowExternalGpus" "True" # Required for proprietary NVIDIA driver. etc/X11//nf Section "Device"īusID "PCI:26:16:3" # Edit according to lspci, translate from hex to decimal. Offloading Graphics Display with RandR 1.4. Also documented in NVIDIA driver docs Chapter 33. Main articles are PRIME#Discrete card as primary GPU and PRIME#Reverse PRIME.

Monitors attached to eGPU work out-of-the-box, PRIME display offload can be used for monitors attached to iGPU (i.e.

Xorg only starts with the eGPU plugged in.

Most programs that make use of GPU run out-of-the-box on eGPU: glxinfo/ glxgears, eglinfo/ eglgears_x11, NVENC/ NVDEC (including OpenGL interop).

Xorg rendered on eGPU, PRIME display offload to iGPU Multiple setups combining internal (iGPU) and external (eGPU) cards are possible, each with own advantages and disadvantages. On Nvidia, active nvidia-persistenced is expected to prevent clean hot-unplug.

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Hot-unplug should be also possible (probably depending on drivers used).

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This use-case should also support full hotplug.

Proprietary Nvidia NVENC/NVDEC should work (without OpenGL interop). nvidia-smi utility should work with the proprietary NVIDIA driver. Right after completing installation steps, compute-only workloads like GPGPU#CUDA that do not need to display anything should work without any extra configuration. Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia If installed successfully, lspci -k should show that a driver has been associated with your card:ġa:10.3 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 (rev a1) # dmesg | grep PCIe pci 0000:1a:10.3: 8.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 2.5 GT/s PCIe x4 link at 0000:05:01.0 (capable of 126.016 Gb/s with 8.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link)Ī driver compatible with your GPU model should be installed: $ lspci | grep -E 'VGA|3D' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07) # internal GPUġa:10.3 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 (rev a1) # external GPUĭepending on your computer, its firmware and enclosure firmware, Thunderbolt will limit host eGPU bandwidth to some extent due to the number of PCIe lanes and OPI Mode: If successful, the external graphics card should show up in lspci: Follow Thunderbolt#User device authorization. The eGPU enclosure Thunderbolt device may need to be authorized first after plugging in (based on your BIOS/UEFI Firmware configuration).

3.2 Xorg rendered on iGPU, PRIME render offload to eGPU.

3.1 Xorg rendered on eGPU, PRIME display offload to iGPU.