Technology Apr 21, 2026 · 1 min read

Framework’s first eGPUs turn its laptop into a desktop PC

Remember when Framework made the first laptop where you can easily upgrade its entire internal video card in three minutes flat? The company's getting into the external graphics game, too. As promised last August, you'll be able to turn the Framework Laptop 16's GPU modules into external ones instea...

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by Sean Hollister
Framework’s first eGPUs turn its laptop into a desktop PC

Remember when Framework made the first laptop where you can easily upgrade its entire internal video card in three minutes flat? The company's getting into the external graphics game, too. As promised last August, you'll be able to turn the Framework Laptop 16's GPU modules into external ones instead. Or, you can plug in a desktop graphics card (or network card, or other PCIe cards) for more power than most laptops ever dream of having, with eight lanes of PCI-Express bandwidth.

Framework's calling it the OCuLink Dev Kit, because it uses the OCuLink standard to transmit data between your CPU and the external GPU, and because the company wa …

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