Asus had already released XG Mobile external RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6850M XT GPUs to pair with its ROG Flow systems. However, with RTX 40 graphics cards now available, Asus thought it would be nice to upgrade the XG Mobile with a more modern GPU for the new ROG …
Read More »Nvidia RTX 4090 performance reduces by 20% when used as an eGPU
External GPUs have become a great way to give some extra oomph to the graphics capabilities of a laptop. Pairing a desktop RTX 4090 graphics card with a laptop using an iGPU will definitely improve graphics performance. Still, due to the limited maximum bandwidth of eGPU enclosures, you might end …
Read More »You can connect an eGPU to the Steam Deck but it is a complicated process
Have you ever thought about how much better the Steam Deck could perform with an external GPU? While external GPU docks aren't directly supported, one early buyer has figured out how to get one set up, although the process isn't super user friendly. YouTuber ETA PRIME thought it would be …
Read More »eGPUs Provide a Flexible Mobile Graphics Option – If You Choose Carefully
Over the last decade, laptop manufacturers have started to add high-end graphics capabilities to their repertoires as a means of securing a slice of the booming gaming PC market. However, as any gamer can tell you, even the best laptop GPU won't match a similarly-equipped desktop PC, and will still …
Read More »Razer Core X Review – no nonsense graphics upgrade!
It's Razer's cheapest external GPU enclosure yet - but is it the product we've been waiting for?
Read More »Razer’s new Core X eGPU enclosure is bigger, better and cheaper
While the new Razer Blade 15 stole the show the other day, it wasn't the only new launch up Razer's sleeve. At the event, we also saw the curtain lifted on the new Razer Core X external GPU enclosure, which reduces the price, and even adds macOS support. The new …
Read More »Apple finally adds full external GPU support to macOS
Last year when Apple first announced macOS High Sierra, we learned that Mac users would finally be getting official support for external GPUs. It has taken a while, but that support has finally arrived, allowing users to hook up a bunch of different GPUs to Mac systems using the Thunderbolt …
Read More »The Razer Core external GPU enclosure has a price
Back at CES, Razer began showing off its own external GPU solution, the Razer Core. Since then, AMD has backed the product, with it being one of the first to support XConnect technology using Thunderbolt 3 and now, we finally have a price and shipping date for it. The Razer …
Read More »AMD announces XConnect, new feature for external GPUs
A couple of weeks ago, AMD began teasing that it was working on something new for external graphics cards and today, the company finally put its cards on the table, showing off XConnect, a new feature aimed to make external graphics solutions as good as they should be. Starting from …
Read More »AMD looking to standardize external GPUs
It looks like AMD may be looking into the development of external graphics cards with hopes on standardizing the technology. External GPUs have been floating around for a while though quite a few PC makers like Alienware, Razer and MSI have jumped on board with their own external GPU solutions …
Read More »Intel, Inventec demo Thunderbolt 3-based external graphics solutions
Intel Corp. and Inventec demonstrated external graphics processing solutions featuring Thunderbolt 3 interface at the Intel Developer Forum this week. The devices are based on reference designs and it is unknown when the products could hit the market. Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 interface offers 40Gb/s of bandwidth (about 5GB/s), which is …
Read More »MSI preps external graphics solutions with Thunderbolt 3 interface
The first two generations of Thunderbolt interfaces revolutionized the market of external storage devices and professional equipment. With 40Gb/s of bandwidth, the third iteration of Thunderbolt can be a game changer for external graphics processing solutions designed for notebooks. In fact, MicroStar International is already working on two Thunderbolt 3-based …
Read More »MSI introduces GS30 laptop with PCI Express x16 external GPU box
MicroStar International (MSI) has introduced its new high-performance GS30 Shadow 13.3” laptop that comes with a special dock for external graphics cards. The dock can be equipped with its own power supply unit and will support all graphics cards possible, thus, wedding high-performance gaming with portable sizes of a notebook. …
Read More »Alienware’s external graphics solution is here, but do we need it?
Modern gaming laptops can be equipped with very powerful central processing units and graphics processing units. While such notebooks can offer performance on par with leading-edge desktops, they still feature one of the main drawbacks of mobile PCs: they cannot be easily upgraded. Alienware, a boutique PC maker, this week …
Read More »Alienware to launch external graphics adapter for laptops
You can get some pretty decent gaming laptops these days but they'll never be able to quite compete with a fully fledged desktop system, which is why Alienware has decided to launch a new desktop graphics card adapter for those who choose to game on a desktop replacement laptop. This isn't …
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