External GPUs have always involved a simple trade-off. You get desktop-class graphics power for your laptop, but the machine has to stay connected to an enclosure through Thunderbolt or OCuLink. WiCi One aims to remove that last cable.
WiCi is preparing what looks like the first commercial wireless eGPU. It uses Wi-Fi 7 to give nearby laptops, tablets, and other devices access to a desktop Nvidia GPU. The $1,999 early-signup configuration includes an RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM, and WiCi also plans a version with an RTX 5090 and 32GB.
Your games and apps keep running on your own device. In Driver mode, the box shows up as a virtual GPU, so supported software can send its graphics workloads over your local network the same way it would to an external graphics card on a cable.
WiCi One GPU Built for Gaming, Work, and Local AI
WiCi is pitching the One as more than a gaming accessory. Apps like Premiere Pro, Blender, and CapCut can hand off GPU work to the box, and separate SDK and API modes support local AI software.
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The built-in NVMe storage also matters for AI work. It lets WiCi stream model weights that are too big to fit inside the GPU’s VRAM.
The company says its RTX 5090 configuration can run the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model at around 5 tokens per second. In their own gaming tests, the RTX 5060 Ti version runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 80 fps at 4K Ultra with DLSS 4. Both figures come from WiCi’s internal testing, and no one has verified them independently yet.
WiCi One and the Wi-Fi
Bandwidth is the obvious worry. External GPUs already lose some performance compared with a graphics card inside a desktop, even over fast wired connections. VideoCardz estimates that WiCi One’s 4×4 Wi-Fi 7 connection tops out at a theoretical 11.5Gbps. That is far below the 64Gbps of PCIe bandwidth you get through Thunderbolt 5 or PCIe 4.0 x4 OCuLink.
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WiCi says its software works around this by cutting down network calls through caching, deduplication, streaming, and pipelining. The company also admits that performance will still depend on the workload and your network conditions. Independent testing will need to show how well this holds up in a busy home, over longer distances, or through walls.
