The Gaming Box's comes pre-installed with a GPU, you don't have to worry about shelling out even more money for a graphics card. However, the Core X lacks ports for USB and Ethernet as well as the Chroma lighting, so gamers looking to create a large gaming station will be left wanting. For the price, you still get Razer's premium build quality along with a space large enough to fit some of the most powerful graphics cards on the market. Value: At $299, the Core X is Razer's most affordable eGPU. It will also be one of Razer's first enclosures to support MacBooks.
Compatibility: Like the Core V2, the Core X works with dual and quad-lane Thunderbolt 3 notebooks. The few ports the Core X has can be found in the back of the Core X and consist of a Thunderbolt 3 port and the power input. It's still made from jet-black CNC aluminum with the large, silver, tri-headed snake emblem on the left and a large peekaboo grate on the right to let you look at your GPU. Razer has ditched the quartet of USB 3.0 ports, as well as Ethernet along the rear of the device, leaving only the Thunderbolt 3 port and power input. But size isn't the only change you'll see. The Core X eclipses both at 14.3 pounds and 14.7 x 9.1 x 6.6 inches - all the better to fit a massive Nvidia GeForce Titan V, my dears. If you're looking to supersize your external graphics enclosure, the Core X is for you. However, fans of Razer's Chroma lighting will be disappointed as the Core X lacks the colorful customization feature. The Core X will be one of Razer's first eGPUs to play nice with Macs. The $299 Razer Core X offers a bigger chassis, perfect for installing massive GPUs like the Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan V while eliminating the USB and Ethernet ports. External graphics has come a long way, materializing from being a mere dream to standing in the spotlight.Never one to rest on its laurels, Razer went back to the lab with the Core and came back with something bigger, more streamlined and affordable. Only select AMD graphics cards are certified to work with it. XConnect also makes the graphics dock hot-pluggable so the host machine doesn’t crash when it’s disconnected unexpectedly.Īlthough that’s the hope of the future, XConnect in its current stage requires some specific components. This means that graphics docks in the future will not be limited to only the device of the same brand, but lets users do the mix and match. Instead of relying on PCIe and proprietary connectors, XConnect works over Thunderbolt 3. What makes AMD’s XConnect and the Razer Core special is the transfer protocol. It lets compatible Alienware 13, 15, or 17 laptops use a desktop graphics card over a proprietary PCIe connection. Take Alienware’s Graphics Amplifier for example. In fact, even the external GPU idea has been hovering around for a while. Switchable graphics is not something new. It remains to be seen what level of bottlenecking the GPU will experience, if any at all. A concern with potentially more impact is over the CPU/GPU pairing and whether or not an Intel ULV CPU will bottleneck a high-end GPU. With that said, even with today’s memory-hungry games, it’s very unlikely that the GPU is fully saturating the PCIe lanes.
While Thunderbolt 3 has a max throughput of 40Gbps (around 5GB/s), it still can’t compete with PCIe 3.0 x16 which has a max throughput of around 126Gbps (15.75GB/s). The main concern is over the bandwidth of the interface. Unfortunately, the Razer Core still has yet to ship, and Razer has yet to state what kind of performance we can expect. This sets the standard for future products to come. The graphics dock can feed its output to the ultrabook’s display or an external monitor. Announced at CES 2016, the Razer Blade Stealth ultrabook can switch to using the graphics card on the Razer Core when it’s connected. The showcase product utilizing XConnect is the Razer Blade Stealth ultrabook and the Razer Core graphics dock.
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In addition, users can easily upgrade the graphics card in the dock, saving cost in the long run. Once refined, mobile users will no longer be forced to choose between owning a desktop and laptop combo or lug around a heavy desktop replacement.
External graphics card offers the best flexibility for work and play. This is thanks to both Intel giving the nod to external graphics with the release of Thunderbolt 3 and AMD’s efforts in developing the necessary firmware and drivers. Leveraging a fully-fledged desktop graphics card docked in a thunderbolt enclosure, users can easily convert their workstations into a gaming rig at the plug of a cable. In an incredible move, AMD has announced its support for External GPU via Thunderbolt 3 graphic docks.Įxternal graphics docks aim to bring huge boosts in gaming performance to power-sipping ultrabooks and notebooks.
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