Really, your 13" MacBook Pro is new enough that it still has a lot of life left in it, barring gaming and higher-end graphics stuff, and unless there are non-gaming things that you want to be able to do in OS X, it really will serve you for quite some time before you'll want a replacement. Doesn't have to be balls to the wall you can get away with spending $800, and you'd end up with something that will likely give you more oomph than your 13" Early 2011 MacBook Pro would've been even if it had discrete graphics. What I'd do in your situation, if I had the money, I'd build a gaming machine. Otherwise, yeah, as far as graphics go, your only option is to replace that computer with another one (that has discrete graphics) or to get another computer that you use for gaming. So, no on external graphics cards, at least not today and not with what you have. This doesn't really help when most graphics cards are PCIe 16x. Thunderbolt can only provide PCIe 4x support.
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