Your laptop is an incredible device that can do almost anything. You can browse the web, communicate, manage your data, and so much more — but there’s something missing. Sometimes, our laptops just aren’t powerful enough.
Laptops sacrifice performance for portability. For more intensive tasks like gaming, VR, and high-speed rendering, your laptop is held back by it’s weak, mobile graphics processor. Because of this, you’re expected to use a bulky, expensive desktop computer for these tasks. If you can buy an external hard drive to easily expand your storage, why can’t you do the same for your laptop’s performance?
A kickstarter project named Wolfe is trying to solve this issue.
The Wolfe is a desktop GPU that can plug into your laptop. A GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a computer chip that contains hundreds (or even thousands) of microprocessors, together capable of trillions of operations per second. This makes it makes far better than a standard computer chip (CPU) at things like gaming and 3D rendering.
Any application that can benefit from GPU acceleration will receive a performance increase from the Wolfe. This includes CryptoCurrency mining, hardware accelerated programming, machine learning, AI, and simulation.
The Wolfe contains an NVIDIA GTX 950 GPU – 768 cores operating at 1024MHz, for a peak compute power of 1.57 TeraFLOPS.
The Wolfe provides up to 5x the graphical power of your typical modern laptop – enough to completely support most of your gaming needs.
