I use my MacMini for sound designing tv-series. There's a 4K main monitor and a full hd screen for videoplayback. No HDX, audio through an Apogee Duet. The internal Intel UHD graphics gets very hot when working with Video Engine enabled (video resolution 1920, Apple ProRes Proxy) so the fans of the macmini are always spinning and making a lot of noise. Not so happy with this, since my MacMini is in front of me of the desk. I hoped the BlackMagic eGPU should have solved this.
I've got the BlackMagic eGPU 580 two weeks ago and its great. The temperature is now 10 to 15 degrees celsius less.
But its bigger than the MacMini and even bigger than my Genelecs 8020 speakers.
I think the video engine is still poorly programmed: when I hit play, even this eGPU is running at 100%! But it's doesn't get hot, so no fan noise...
