I love it.

this is cool i like niche mods like this, i did similar using an old dell latitude using the express card slot and my old gtx 980 using pci-e 3.0 X1 also used the internal mini pci-e x1 but it was sloppy and required the bottom be butchered or removed. i had 5 of these laptops to mess with from works e-waste lol

This is insane 🙂 and so a "must try to do it" things. I love those tiny board and what people can do with it, it remind me the begin of computer era (feeling old now lol)

Since Pi is running Linux, I'd guess it wasn't super frustrating, either.

icedman:

this is cool i like niche mods like this, i did similar using an old dell latitude using the express card slot and my old gtx 980 using pci-e 3.0 X1 also used the internal mini pci-e x1 but it was sloppy and required the bottom be butchered or removed. i had 5 of these laptops to mess with from works e-waste lol

e-waste is paradise to try stupid thing that might work 🙂 sadly i don't have enough place at home (one pile of junk for my future racer from the 60", one pile for my actual one with lot of salvable turbo... one day lol, and one for old computer part)

Cool to see this finally working for the Pi. With the use of WINE/Proton, DXVK, and one of the x86 emulators, we're probably not too far off from having a pretty good ARM-based gaming PC. Hard to say whether all the abstraction going on would yield an efficiency improvement over using a mobile x86 chip, but it'd probably be a lot cheaper.

Kaarme:

Since Pi is running Linux, I'd guess it wasn't super frustrating, either.

Based on his experiences with previous Pis, it's more frustrating than you'd think. From my vague recollection, it has a lot to do with the way GPUs need memory access, and, how PCIe is handled by ARM kernels. As mentioned in the article, the RPis don't exactly have a good implementation of PCIe. I know people have got desktop AMD GPUs to work on Rockchip-based boards (which as far as I'm concerned, are overall better anyway).

I thought that it was possible for long time.. especially with external gpu through m.2 slots trick, but yeah software side of this thing is the problem. If im not wrong Nvidia has not public drivers for ARM Linux (except their Tegra devices), AMD probably does, because they are open sources so someone compiled them for ARM.. but still these things would need lots of testing and until its some x86 to ARM translator good enough to run Steam Games, its its just nice experiment to play OpenArena and other games compiled for ARM Linux - like Quake3 .. Android has all in the place, except drivers, because even AMD has not drivers gpu drivers for ARM + Android .. not even for x86 Android. I only found the petition to make them: https://www.change.org/p/mohammed-daifallah-nouveau-and-amd-provide-gpu-drivers-to-android-x86-to-run-android-smoothly-on-our-pcs