You may have seen the Beelink GTi12 Ultra with the Beelink EX GPU Dock a few times on STH over the last month or so. Today, we wanted to quickly go into the Beelink EX GPU Dock and just show this off. The EX GPU Dock uses a special slot, and contains an internal power supply, to provide a higher-end solution than many of the Thunderbolt and Oculink docks out there. Still, we have thoughts.
Beelink EX GPU Dock External Overview
First off, this thing just looks crazy. If you are coming from other docking solutions like the Minisforum DEG1 Oculink eGPU Dock, just keep this in mind: There are multiple card slots and an internal power supply here.
Taking a look at the top view is very useful. First, we have the power button and the goldfinger connector that inserts into systems. Right now, that “systems” is primarily the Beelink GTi Ultra series. There is also a 4-pin power header.
The meat of this is the PCIe x16 slot, but this is a x8 electrical connectivity solution. Behind the slot there is a dual 8-pin power connector, a USB 2.0 port, and WiFi antenna headers.
Looking at the unit’s side, you can see we have a power input to the internal power supply and a vent.
On the other side, we get EX branding.
We played with the contrast a bit because it is hard to see. A key to this is that the instructions are printed on the GPU dock that it must be turned on prior to the system being turned on. Follow these instructions.
On the bottom, we get the big rubber strip feet we are accustomed to with Beelink products.
Let us next take a quick look inside.
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There is no way that “solution” conforms to any FCC regulation.
Why would an open bench table for GPU appeal to someone in the market for a modern x86-64 CPU version of Mac mini?
To me, these two look like trying to serve two different markets that I expect have very little overlap.