60 FPS gaming on an Ultrabook. Aorus is well-known for cramming as much power as possible in the smallest form factors and the $700 USD Gaming Box is no different. The eGPU promises to turbocharge any Thunderbolt 3 PC to be a gaming monster. Our tests reveal that Aorus is true to its word, albeit with some notable software hiccups and asterisks that every potential owner should know about before purchasing.
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Thank you for posting this. As someone who is looking for eGPU solutions, THIS was very effective! Your review managed to calm down some of my fears, and help me determine the solution for my needs. Thanks again for all your hard work!
If you have a chance, I would also like to see some specific tests run in the future.
1) Use a desktop with a 4x pcie slot and tb3 to do eGPU comparison. CPU, ram, and gpu clocks play a large role in frame rates, and it would be nice to see frame rates of the eGPU's 1080 card plugged into the 4x slot of a system, the 16x slot of the system, and of course, plugged into the Aorus graphics box hardware using tb3. This will give meaningful information of 4x vs 16 x vs tb3. As far as I know, this has not been done yet.
2) I would like to know the performance costs of external 4k. I understand you didn't have a 4k display. I guess were all not made of $.
3) Out of curiosity, I would like to know the performance cost of rendering 4k on the internal display. I anticipate it will be severe, and it would be nice to know if tb3 will have the bandwidth to do this.
Did you guys updated this Gaming Box with H2D firmware which fixes half bandwith issue?
Great review thank you.
I'm waiting for the next gen of nvidia gpu's which is coming in the next months. With the next 1180 or 2080 eGPU we should be able to run every game in ultra 4k60fps, that would be great !
For higher framerates, I think that laptop CPU (especially on intel U versions) still will be a problem as the TDP is not high and ultrabooks are not made for gaming intensly (CPU throttling).
An ultrabook 17 UHD with great battery life + an eGPU is THE thing for playing anywhere and for an affordable price (in comparison to gaming laptops with high end GPU which costs around 3500€)
Great review.
Have you tried any VR applications with the eGPUs? Was considering pairing this with a htc vive pro or Samsung hmd odyssey to supplement my onboard 3gb gtx 1060 laptop
Hi, great review! Would you be able to do a comparison or a review of alienware graphics amplifier since it uses a PCIe connection. Thank you
These results seem a bit lower than what I usually get.
Using it with a Razer Blade Stealth I can still get 18k in Firestrike graphics with some overclock on the GPU and using an external monitor.