Question eGPU advice

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Psycho_zs

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Oct 30, 2025
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Hi everyone!
For a long, long time I didn't bother with GPUs at all. Whatever integrated graphics my laptops had were enough, as I never chased graphics-heavy games and classics run fine.
But now I seem to have a reason to start thinking about a GPU, and my laptop happens to have a thunderbolt 4 port.

If anyone has experience with eGPU enclosures/docks (in general, and on Linux in particular), please share.
Also, what currently counts as a decent non-excessive AMD GPU?
 
Answering my own question, and in case anyone finds it useful: TH3P4G3 Thunderbolt 4 dock and a Radeon RX 9060 XT 16Gb GPU work out of the box, hot-plugged (Debian sid, Hyprland). Any app started with `DRI_PRIME=1` renders on external GPU willy-nilly, confirmed by `gputop`.