just wanted to add you didn't see an improvement because the eGPU was not selected. depending on what software you used for the video export/render it likely did not give you an option to select the eGPU. Most software did not have this feature until recently and many still don't really support eGPUs. So there is no easy way to select the eGPU apart from running the application with specific parameters to manually select the eGPU from command line. How it is supposed to work is that you select the eGPU in the software settings first before doing the render/export. But there is no option for this. Not even in adobe premiere, blackmagic fusion or even final cut pro. I think Blender now has GPU select, and the others are catching up. NVIDIA and AMD drivers also needed to sort a lot of things out on eGPU settings. The 3060ti should have had a massive performance increase over the 1050ti. But it was not doing anything. I bet you all benchmarks actually ran on the 1050ti and the 3060ti just sat there doing nothing. The new Ryzen 7 6800U chip from AMD has Thunderbolt support and the Ryzen 7000 will have native Thunderbolt, so eGPUs should become a lot more popular since Thunderbolt was only really on Intel. Either way, eGPUs work far better on gaming.

Hey nikos, thx for the video, great user perspective! I think you got the bail on the head: eGPU is great for workloads that output to the monitor connected to the eGPU, but not for offloading work to the gou (like rendering/encoding). Here's why: that speed of 40Gb/s that's to the eGPU and back! The CPU spikes you see are the CPU collecting data from the GPU, and sending new data to it. That's where this bottleneck is most pronounced.

Niko congrats on the content, greetings from Greece, really appreciated. I have a razer blade with a 2080 in and considering getting the chroma x and adding an Rtx 3090. My main concern is since chroma x is Pcie 3.0, wouldn’t that bottleneck and throttle my 3090 that is pcie 4.0 ? I need it for blender 3D rendering . Would please help me out on this issue explaining what and If I should reconsider not doing it in terms of performance?

What software did you use? What was the video footage like? Were there graphics-intensive tasks within the project? If we are transcoding a simple 6K to 4K clip, then for example Adobe Premiere will not use the video processor at all

eGPUs weren't really designed for non-gaming applications, and they aren't designed to pair with devices that can already game comfortably. They're designed for exactly the test that it performed the best at - passing through to an external monitor and allowing gaming on laptops that couldn't do it before. It's not for someone with a gaming laptop to get a slight upgrade. It's more for someone with, say, a Surface Laptop to now have a 3070 Ti they can plug into and play some games. That's the value proposition. If you already have a Razer Blade 14, getting a Core X probably isn't valuable for you. If you have a Lenovo ThinkPad or something, yeah, now we're talking.

I am sorry but you're not completely correct with the review and with the setup. 1.The cable is short because the speed of the transfer is slower as the cable is longer. 2. You compare similar products 1050i vs 1060. If you already spend the money on egpu get the 2070 or higher. 3. The egpu will drop 10-20 degrees c from the cpu because the cpu and internal gpu are on the same cooler so the cpu gets more room to breathe. Unfortunately i have lenovo thinkpads (p15, p53,x1 extreme..) and they all throttle so getting the heat of the internal gpu out will help. 4. Don't connect to the usb of the egpu because you're using thunderbolt to get them back to the laptop. 5. Use external monitor only so that the video won't get back to the laptop again hurting your thunderbolt bandwidth

I have a doubt like I have a 2020 variant 1650 laptop so with i5-10gen I was thinking to buy external graphic card as mine supports thunderbolt 3 also I have never experienced thermal throttling or any kind of thermal issue in mine. So should I go for it ? And also there are so many egpu cases which one is best for rtx3060 ?

Wait so how do you hook up an external monitor to display the laptop without hindering performance? Do you hook the monitor up to the core x or to the laptop still?

Idk if someone can answer me this but i have a hp laptop with a i7 11th gen with a thunderbolt 512gb and 16gb ram and i want to buy the razer and i still have 3060 ti will it work

hi so is this work it or not ? it be this or the chroma 3070ti or a 3080ti i could put in it i was looking at doing full build pc and i seen razer laptop which has 2080 super in and the cpu Processor Number:10875H full model RZ09-03305W53-R3W1 If you know if that would work well let me know as that might be better option im looking to game and also edit videos sometimes on the go and also do graphic Ray tracing work with unreal so if i can do stuff on the go and then do more power when indoors would this be a good solution ?

Can you add more than one graphic card to the razer? If so what would that process be ? Thanks in advance!

I have a go x360 10gen i7 16gb ram I'm looking to get one of these to run premier pro with smooth playback would you reccomend?

Would this fit the MSI Suprim GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 x16 Video Card RTX 3070 Ti SUPRIM X 8G?

Just don’t expect an egpu to do anything more for u if u have a quad core cpu or some 2015 laptop stuff, it’s more worth it to buy or build an entire new pc for someone in that space.

Hey man, my xps 15 9570 with the i7 struggles a lot with thermal throttling, basically my fps drops all the time and its really unplayable. How would an egpu help me in my case? Will my cpu still overheat?

Thanks for video!! I have monster tulpar t7 v14.1.1 Win x64 11 Pro laptop. İt's feature 17" Full HD Screen 144HZ intel İ7 8700K 3.70GHz Nvidia GTX 1060 O.C 32GB Ram 1TB Samsung NVMe 970 Evo SSD Thunderbolt 3 PCle x16 3.0 Now I bought Razer Core X Chrome. I'll use for 3D modelling and render. But which the nvidia 30 series graphics card should i buy? I'm stuck between 3060t Tİ or 3070 Tİ Thanks!!! My friends tell me you can't get any performance. is that true or not?

can this eGPU work with mini PC?

Short cable was for 100watt supply

Got me one and only last me 3month then it’s fried. I hate to buy another one just to see it go down again.

all GPU process by CPU no GPU work by himself