That’s why. Not really gaming, just a basic card for a specific niche.
Industrial PCs too, fanless stuff is great when you don’t want dust continuously pumped through the case, like in a woodshop (sawdust) or a mechanic (oily dirt and dust).
Although personally, in those cases, I think you’d see comparable performance just by using modern onboard CPU graphics. I would rather save the space and money and skip a discrete card entirely.
I use those on server hardware that don’t have onboard graphics from which I need more than simple CLI. Also useful if you have an HDMI KVM and only VGA output.
You’ll have substantially better results from modern integrated graphics (even on the low-end Intel UHD side). This is genuinely the card you get if you just need the extra outputs and don’t care about performance, or you have a CPU lacking integrated graphics and don’t care about performance.
In other words, there are use cases for it, but I absolutely agree that a gaming card this is not and it has a very specific niche.
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That’s why. Not really gaming, just a basic card for a specific niche.
Industrial PCs too, fanless stuff is great when you don’t want dust continuously pumped through the case, like in a woodshop (sawdust) or a mechanic (oily dirt and dust).
Although personally, in those cases, I think you’d see comparable performance just by using modern onboard CPU graphics. I would rather save the space and money and skip a discrete card entirely.
I use those on server hardware that don’t have onboard graphics from which I need more than simple CLI. Also useful if you have an HDMI KVM and only VGA output.
You’ll have substantially better results from modern integrated graphics (even on the low-end Intel UHD side). This is genuinely the card you get if you just need the extra outputs and don’t care about performance, or you have a CPU lacking integrated graphics and don’t care about performance.
In other words, there are use cases for it, but I absolutely agree that a gaming card this is not and it has a very specific niche.
Remember that some CPUs come without the iGPU like older Ryzen or some intel chips.
Yup, addressed in my original reply.