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The $400-plus Steam Deck<\/a> gaming handheld does not<\/em> support external graphics cards. Valve has been clear on this point for months \u2014 you can\u2019t magically plug in a dock and run Cyberpunk <\/em>or Elden Ring<\/em> at 4K. But ever since the company revealed that the Steam Deck\u2019s storage plugs into a (relatively) easily accessible M.2 PCI-Express x4 socket, the PC gaming community has speculated that an eGPU module could totally fit there instead.<\/p>\n

Now, YouTuber ETA Prime has actually done it<\/a>, adding an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, one of the highest-end graphics cards on the market. <\/p>\n

It works, it runs, it plays games at 4K with maxed-out settings at framerates a vanilla Steam Deck could only dream of. But no, you probably shouldn\u2019t do this at home! Not only does it kind of defeat the portable purpose to have a desktop graphics card sticking out the back \u2014 not to mention an external power supply! \u2014 but a bunch of games seem to bog down due to having a relatively slow CPU and only four lanes worth of PCI-Express bandwidth for that beefy graphics card, too. <\/p>\n

Oh, and you can\u2019t close the Steam Deck\u2019s case, either, which is probably not optimal for its longevity. And ETA Prime says an Nvidia GPU didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s a lot of kit.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: ETA Prime<\/cite><\/p>\n

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Perhaps some future Steam Deck will have a bonafide external graphics compatible connector so you could simply plug in a ready-made eGPU box? Thunderbolt is pricey and traditionally exclusive to Intel systems, but AMD\u2019s Ryzen 6000 processors support USB 4<\/a>, which incorporates the Thunderbolt 3 spec. And AMD has been working on Linux drivers<\/a> specifically to allow hot plugging and unplugging of external graphics cards. <\/p>\n

It might cost Valve more to incorporate the faster I\/O that\u2019d be required to enable a single-cable-4K-graphics-docking dream, but Valve might be up to it \u2014 it\u2019s publicly said that it\u2019s not only interested in working on a Steam Deck successor but that it was surprised how many buyers opted for a premium $649 model instead of the $400 base configuration. <\/p>\n

Me, I\u2019ll probably just stream my games from my desktop PC to the Deck<\/a> inside my own home. It works fairly well.<\/p>\n

Correction, 3:54PM ET: <\/strong><\/em>Thunderbolt is no longer exclusive to Intel systems, counter to what I originally suggested. Thunderbolt 4 began sneaking into AMD desktop boards last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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