ADLink's portable RTX A500 Thunderbolt GPU was recently reviewed and benchmarked by StorageReview and was found to have good discrete GPU performance for the application it's designed for. The little pocket-sized discrete GPU is an RTX A500 GPU featuring 2048 CUDA cores, and benchmarks found it to be roughly 60% faster compared to integrated graphics solutions — such as Intel's Iris Xe graphics — in GPU-accelerated non-gaming tasks like Luxmark and AI.
Storage Review benchmarked the little GPU in Luxmark Hall, Luxmark Food, and Procyon AI Inference and found the Pocket GPU performed well for its intended role. In a comparison against an Intel Iris Xe iGPU sporting 96 EUs, the Pocket GPU was 54% faster in Luxmark Hall with 3979 points. In Luxmark Food the Pocket GPU was 52% faster with a score of 1837 (vs 869), and in Procyon AI Inference it was 77% faster with a score of 264 (vs 59).
