THIS is a Graphics Card..?? - ASRock Rack M2_VGA

The folks over at ASRock RACK have created a graphics card that fits in an M.2 socket – it’s a lot smaller than an Nvidia RTX 3080 - but can it run games?

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Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[JeffGeerling]

You jest, but this might just be the best external graphics card currently available for the Raspberry Pi...

[anirudhtammireddy]

“I remember downloading certain types of pictures” YES LINUS WE ALL REMEMBER THAT

[void_knight_]

"Yeah, my pc runs at 60 seconds per frame."
"You meant frames per second, right?"
"I meant what I said."

[alessio]

I've seen Linus more than my family this year

[johnathankorba]

I love that him holding his finger on the chip is liquid cooling it.

[BillLambert]

"gaming machine" might be a reference to casino-style games, the kind you find in seedy bars. Those things run industrial-style potato PCs at potato resolution where a "GPU" like this could suffice.

[Bearthedancingman]

I'd love to see more capable M.2 gpus for micro computers like the Raspberry Pi.

[SemtexWarrior]

When they say "gaming machines" i think they refer more to actual gaming machines like slots, poker etc...

[player_fanatic]

You need to give this to Low Spec Gamer. This is pure gold.

[GingerNingerGames]

I think the fact Half-life 2 ran at 20FPS is just testament to how well optimized that engine is.

[viniciusmv]

Hey Linus, I think the color banding issue might be that the DACs on the card aren't able to produce the appropriate voltage levels for the analog color signals on VGA spec.

[DJdoppIer]

Schools: *_"I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!!!"_*

[AndrewFRC]

So you're telling me I can stick this in the unused M.2 port in my mini-ITX build, mount a mini vga display in the front of the case, and write my own custom 2d interface for system monitoring (load, temps, watts, clock freq, etc.)? That would actually be a fun project, even though its totally impractical.

[hobart]

Linus : "It defaulted to 64hz. What kind of number is that?"

Me : Why of course, it's a stack of hz.

[elleeVee]

this thing is actually kinda interesting, its used to add a VGA output to a system with a more recent GPU that doesn't have one. really, really specific

[crispinbishop]

"Gaming Machines" probably means for slot machines or gambling machines

[roninnder]

“I would describe it as seconds per frame, rather than frames per second.” 😂

[joshmcelroy]

AsRock: Creates this product
Schools and Libraries: I’ll take your whole stock

[FireFoxDestroyer]

I hope the thing is actually doing anything and not just redirecting to the CPU...

[saatanakettu]

Linus: "Just like i die if didn't tell you about our sponsor"

Me: "Are they threatning you Linus?"