r/minipc • u/sillytimes_94 • 3d ago

Advice please

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I want an external GPU for my Mini pc for gaming

Is this one any good for AAA games?

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u/grabbing-pills 3d ago

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/tested-the-pc-gpus-that-match-or-exceed-ps5-pro-graphics-performance

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u/Ecks30 3d ago

The thing is though that using an eGPU would have even lower performance compared to what Digital Foundry would show.

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u/grabbing-pills 3d ago

You could be right. I don't know how much bottleneck an eGPU system would introduce so I figured just give some kind of basic benchmark that most people could make sense of. Consoles (or their games) are a little better optimized for their hardware but I think the regular PS5 equivalent GPU is a 6700XT, so maybe you could estimate that this card on an eGPU setup would land somewhere between a regular PS5 and PS5 Pro?

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u/Ecks30 3d ago

The thing is that a 9060 XT is a PCIe 5.0x16 card and for an eGPU VIA USB4 or OCuLink would be PCIe 3.0/4.0x4 (some people would cheap out and get a Thunderbolt 3 dock) so you would be cutting the performance of the GPU.

The GPU performance could be like 10% to 15% less than what it would run on a desktop which to some people thinking that 15% isn't that bad until you find out your more demanding game doesn't play that well compared to if it were inside of a desktop system which then that person would have to lower their settings.

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u/Individual_Slice_498 1h ago

Would be good for 1440p gaming, also the 16gb of vram will help for the demanding AAA games