It's also not a complete desktop replacement: a laptop plus an external graphics card may still leave you short in the storage drive department. And it's worth remembering you can get the same performance out of the cheaper $469 Razer Core X – minus the four USB ports and LED lighting. We went hands on with this latest eGPU (external graphics processing unit) courtesy of Razer, pairing it with a supplied Razer Blade Stealth laptop and high-end GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card.Īt $649 plus the cost of a graphics card (and possibly a longer Thunderbolt 3 cable), it's still an investment. The Razer Core X Chroma is worth considering for people who need more graphics power than their laptop can handle, but don't want or need a whole separate desktop PC. Compatibility: what laptops and graphics cards work with it?. ![]() ![]() It also powers your laptop, so you don't need yet another cable messing up your area. The fast speed of Thunderbolt 3 means enough data can be transferred back and forth to run a graphics processing unit (GPU) externally, as well as multiple USB devices, as if they were part of the same machine. It's made for gamers, designers, video editors, and anyone else who needs both a laptop for portability and powerful graphics processing at home or work. ![]() The Razer Core X Chroma is an external housing for a graphics card, which has enough grunt to bring desktop PC power to your laptop. Find out more about fact-checking at CHOICE. Checked for accuracy by our qualified fact-checkers and verifiers.
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