It's also a matter of cost alone. I'm currently in the market of building a Gefore 1660 based light gaming environment. Building a Desktop PC the cheapest way possible using that card plus a Ryzen 1200 comes out at only ~70$ more (~550USD, 16GB RAM, not including SSD) than buying the cheapest eGPU enclosure plus the card. For that 70$ I get considerably better performance (since my laptop is ultralight) and less hassle.
I don't see how eGPU is worth it except for very narrow usecases, like doing some light 3D modelling and wanting to use an already available Mac (since buying the appropriate integrated Mac hardware is way too expensive in comparison).
I don't see how eGPU is worth it except for very narrow usecases, like doing some light 3D modelling and wanting to use an already available Mac (since buying the appropriate integrated Mac hardware is way too expensive in comparison).