Sure. They're typically sold with a gpu so you'll already get one installed. I forgot what it was equivalent to, but something like a wx2100 I believe. Yep, low-profile.
Thin client hardware like this is actually ideal as a usb file server as they're low power and it's a really simple setup.
Eh, no. The WX2100 will be more powerful (that’s what, like an RX540?). This is GCN2, so this is more like a Radeon R5 M230 sliced in half.
The WX2100 and RX 540 are both GCN 4 Polaris 12 (Lexa), but the RX has twice the memory bandwith. So the WX2100 is slower, but in normal use draws about half the power of the RX. So its a nice choice for cramped boxes when users just need something better than integrated. The embedded marketed version of the WX2100 is the e9173, which is pretty much the same thing, but with a black motif on the shroud and graphics.
Well, the Radeon R5 GPU onboard the APU is GCN2 based (2CUs in a 128:8:4 config, clocked at ~500Mhz for 127 GFlops), so if you are comparing the WX2100 to the onboard GPU, then the WX2100 is much faster. The W2100 is closer to the Oland Radeon R5 in both tech and performance, but then you are hitting 3 limiting factors - VRAM bandwidth (DDR3), number of compute units (5CUs in a 320:20:8 config, 400 GFlops) and the fact that the GX424CCs are PCIe Gen2 only. Even if you pop that WX2100/E9173 board into that machine, you are still effectively choking it since the bus is slower and your 4 Puma cores are not really all that great. Of course, if you have lots of unified RAM bandwidth, good amount of unified RAM and a crapload of GCN Comute units, then you'll be able to game with it. But then that's exactly what you have with a Playstation 4....4 Jaguar AMD64 netbook cores, 18 GCN2 CUs and 8GB of unified RAM on an ultra-wide memory bus...and yes, people are known to jailbreak PS4 to get Linux going.
Well, my original idea was just to let people know that even though WX2100 was like an RX 540, it didn't perform like one, and also that the included GPU was slow as dirt.
Very. Go on...
I'd def pay all of 2x that amount for a sweet Christmas gift.
Would be interesting to at least know what it is
So yes, me too.I am guessing...something like a Nexcom NDIS B532 with a MiniPCIe capture card...like an Avermedia DarkCrystal?
Yeah, that WX2100 is still miles ahead of that embedded GCN2, even if it's like a gimped RX540. I think I am more exasperated that in the past 4 years there's not that much changes made to the baseline cards...you figure that nVidia would've announced an RT4030 to replace the GT1030 by now.Well, my original idea was just to let people know that even though WX2100 was like an RX 540, it didn't perform like one, and also that the included GPU was slow as dirt.
But yeah, I agree that for these low end boxes if it doesn't work as is, probably best not to spend much money adding stuff on. Better to wait for one that's configured more like what the user needs. I took a pass on this myself, realizing there wasn't anything I wanted to do that an S920 or a 5060 as configured would be able to do for me. I had put an offer in on an S920, because at least it had a full length PCIe, but when they countered, I thought "what am I doing?" Now jailbreaking a PS4 on the other hand....
