Using the Khadas Mind Graphics 2 (NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti USB4 eGPU) on Ubuntu 26.04

When we used the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB-based Khadas Mind Graphics 2 dock with a mini PC running Ubuntu 26.04 last week, the USB4-connected eGPU was detected and enabled automatically, but we encountered two issues: very poor performance and the mini PC failed to boot when the dock was removed. The solution is partially documented as part of a long GEEKOM IT13 Max Ubuntu 26.04 review, but I thought it might be useful to document everything in a shorter article for people who own the Khadas Mind Graphics 2 or another NVIDIA Blackwell eGPU connected over USB4/Thunderbolt. Fixing Khadas Mind Graphics 2 performance issues on Ubuntu The Khadas Mind Graphics 2 and NVIDIA graphics card were automatically detected when I connected the dock to a Ubuntu 26.04 mini PC: [crayon-6a8166edd4a12887479089/] I was able to run Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 on the (unknown) NVIDIA GPU, but performance was poor, [...]

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