Aorus RTX 2070 Gaming Box with Dell XPS 13 9380 Review

[Redaktion]

Gigabyte has outfitted its super-small external graphics dock with a mini GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card compatible with most Ultrabooks. Naturally, we run every benchmark we could to see how the Aorus eGPU solution compares against a traditional gaming laptop. The results are more variable than we had initially anticipated.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Aorus-RTX-2070-Gaming-Box-with-Dell-XPS-13-9380-Review.413819.0.html

[EvAl]

What chipset does the autos gaming box have and what other laptops does this mean that it will be capable with?

[MMr3]

So, did you run any monitoring tool while benchmarking to find out where was the bottleneck? Could it be LPDDR3 RAM? Was it CPU cooling? Should we blame it all to thunderbolt3?
Those questions are very important for someone in the market for laptop and egpu.

[Millek]

So the 4k ultra that shows lowest loss on epgu you did not test in gaming, why?

[GG]

Did you test with an external monitor? Or did the signals go back and forth trough the Thunderbolt 3?

[Patrick DuChene]

Great review and perfect for my situation.  I have a matebook x pro with 8550u and 2 lane Thunderbolt 3.  Would an xps 15 9570 make a big difference with the 2070 box?  I have this version you reviewed and thinking about getting something with better processor.  It's not my main machine but would love to maximize the box performance.  Thanks so much!!

[Alec Heesacker]

Will This Speed Up Games Above 2x And Improve Performance On The Citra 3DS Emulator? The GTX 1060 Max Q Did Not Do Well On Alpha Sapphire, Sun And Monster  Hunter Stories. Including Paper Mario Sticker Star. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire Was About To Crash The Citra 3DS Emulator On The GTX 1060 Max Q At 2 Times Speed And Lower. BSOD Error. :(
Big Dell Notebook Running Win 10 From Best Buy, Intel Core i7 CPU (Not The Latest But #s Up From Toshiba Satellite's Intel Core i7), 32GB Of RAM. 1TB On Hard Drive, But 512GB On SSD.
Pokemon Sun, Monster Hunter Stories And Paper Mario Sticker Star Had BAD 3DS Data Sector According To GPU Graphics.
You Could Not See The Window Start The 3DS Decrypted Title On The Pokemon Sun Citra Emulator.

[interpolpirate]

So you used a laptop with a 15W "u" processor against laptops with 45W "H" processors and it scored worse? Big surprise.
Why not connect the eGPU to one of the laptops you used for comparison and disable the internal card. Then you might actually get a fair test. Of course egpu performs worse if you pair it with a crap processor.....