Raspberry Pi increasingly closer to the use of external video cards

Raspberry Pi, the popular Single Board Computer, was designed to offer enthusiasts (and others) a device that can be used both as a desktop computer for the youngest, perhaps to learn the rudiments of programming and the operating system. Linux, and for the most diverse projects. Obviously, being based on a low-power SoC, the performance is not optimal for all tasks, especially for gaming (if we exclude the emulation of old systems).

However, some makers want to make the most of what the Broadcom ARM BCM2711 chipset, which equips Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, can offer, and they have even looked for a way to use an external video card in order to maximize graphics performance. Well-known enthusiast Jeff Geerling managed to go a few steps further, getting a video signal through the DP, DVI, VGA and HDMI connectors from the tested AMD 5000/6000/7000 cards, but unfortunately, several problems were encountered. >
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However, besides the fact that the PCIe 2 1x interface does not allow to take full advantage of modern graphics cards, Geerling pointed out that the Broadcom chipset was not designed to take advantage of the PCI slot for GPUs; therefore, most likely the steps forward may not be very significant.

Anyway, in case you are interested in learning more, we suggest you take a look at this GitHub repository and the video below.