Raspberry Pi wizard Jeff Geerling has demonstrated 4K60 gaming on his Raspberry Pi 5 setup. Crucially, the Pi 5 was given a considerable lift in the G

Jeff Geerling finally unlocks Raspberry Pi external GPU support, and yes it runs Doom... 3 at 4K!

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2024-10-09 14:00:14

Raspberry Pi wizard Jeff Geerling has demonstrated 4K60 gaming on his Raspberry Pi 5 setup. Crucially, the Pi 5 was given a considerable lift in the GPU department via the use of an M.2 to OCuLink adapter and an AMD Radeon RX 460 desktop graphics card. It may sound quite a simple ‘hack’ from our brief intro, but there were quite a few more bits of support hardware required, as well as Linux kernel patching, to achieve the 4K60 gaming goal.

The embedded video is short and to the point, but if you want more details regarding Geerling’s 4K60 gaming feat you can head over to his blog, or check out the full 2-hour live stream. We also reported on an earlier version of this eGPU setup last November, before it was coaxed into gaming. The mini-computer enthusiast says there were several ways he could have achieved his Raspberry Pi 5 gaming goal, but he selected the following hardware:

It seems that basically, the last two components in the list were chosen as they were at hand and good enough for the demo to succeed. However, Geerling elaborated on his RX 460 choice, mentioning that this specific model was “new enough to use the open source amdgpu driver in the Linux kernel, and old enough the drivers and card details are pretty well known.”