There has been a lot of development in the eGPU scene lately, with Thunderbolt 5, OCuLink, and MCIO 8i providing serious gains in bandwidth and throughput for eGPU use cases. However, Wici has just launched the Wici One, a new wireless eGPU solution that relies on Wi-Fi 7 for data transfer instead of a cable connection, available with both an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti or an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, the latter of which does not yet have a listed price.
While Wi-Fi 7 is capable of theoretical maximum speeds of around 46.1 Gbps, as VideoCardz points out, the 4×4 radio inside the Wici One, running at 320 MHz and 4096-QAM, would top out at just 11.5 Gbps. To add to this limitation, those speeds are likely only possible over very short distances, with very little interference. Still, Wici promises high-framerate gaming over the network-connected device, with Cyberpunk 2077 reaching 80 FPS at 4K Ultra with DLSS 4 on the RTX 5060 Ti version and Black Myth: Wukong hitting 60 FPS in the 4K Cinematic preset. No latency claims are made, however, but, gaming, a latency-sensitive workload, isn’t Wici’s main selling point. The true focus for Wici is as a workstation machine, since it contains not only a GPU. The Wici One is actually a full platform, replete with a CPU and storage—presumably, the platform relies entirely on VRAM, since there are no RAM specs or quantities listed.
The main use-case being local AI workloads and GPU-accelerated 3D rendering, the main idea appears to be to send the entire job to the Wici One’s GPU over the network and to complete the workload on the eGPU enclosure, then returning the result to the host machine after it is complete.
While pricing for the RTX 5090 version has yet to be announced, Wici has confirmed that the One’s RTX 5090 will be paired with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H and 4 TB of NVMe storage, while the RTX 5060 Ti version will come with an Intel Core 3 100U and 1 TB of NVMe. The RTX 5060 Ti version will be launching soon with an MSRP of $2,599 and an early sign-up price of $1,999.