

(International prices aren't available, but that's about £2,350 or AU$4,140. Paired with a Transformer Book Pro it also makes one of the most powerful touch-screen laptops in history.The XG Station 2 is also the easiest eGPU to slide a. You can preorder the bundle now on Asus' site for $3,200. It will initially ship only as a bundle, and the XG Mobile will cost about as much as the laptop when it ships separately, though there will be less expensive a step-down model. It's a clever solution, and hopefully the first of many variations on the thin-and-light gaming laptop. 3 connection I want to report a test done with an Asus Zenbook Pro XU580GE laptop (i9. Asus is likely assuming you'll be connected to an external monitor when docked. Weve been talking about external graphics cards for a while now. The laptop serving as a two-in-one is the icing on the cake, though 13 inches feels pretty small for a gaming laptop. It has a stand to prop it up and some illumination as well. It contains four USB-A connections, an SD card slot and gigabit Ethernet, as well as the DisplayPort and HDMI ports on the actual graphics card. Unlike most eGPUs, the XG Mobile is relatively small: 55 by 208 by 29 mm and 2.2 pounds. ASUS XG Station Pro is the sleek, stylish dock that connects your Ultrabook or other Thunderbolt 3-equipped notebook computer to a desktop graphics card. The XG Mobile is a hub plus eGPU enclosure equipped with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. Plus, when the eGPU is connected, the system disables the integrated GPU, so it can allocate the power savings to the eGPU. That means it couldn't power the hub without taking a hit. Why? Because Thunderbolt throttles the connection between the GPU and the main system, and the bandwidth is split among the other connections.

In order to facilitate that, Asus is using a proprietary connector (Alienware long has as well).
