A Thunderbolt chassis is a standalone housing equipped with a power supply and internal PCI Express slots, bridging the PCIe bus to a host computer over a Thunderbolt cable. This allows laptops or compact computers lacking internal expansion room to utilize full-sized desktop graphics cards, high-end audio interfaces, or specialized capture cards.
Heard on the job
The laptop handles the CPU load, but we offload the rendering to a heavy GPU sitting in a Thunderbolt chassis under the desk.
Also heard as
- eGPU enclosure