News Razer unveils Core X V2 eGPU enclosure with TB5 bandwidth — costs $400, but no longer has a power supply and I/O expansion requires a separate Thun...

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Razer’s new Core X V2 eGPU supports quad-slot cards, 140W charging, and Thunderbolt 5 bandwidth—but drops I/O, PSU, and macOS support. The matching Dock fills the gaps, but at $390, the full setup gets expensive. It’s modular, sleek, but not quite the upgrade eGPU users were hoping for.

Razer unveils Core X V2 eGPU enclosure with TB5 bandwidth — costs $400, but no longer has a power supply and I/O expansion requires a separate Thun... : Read more

 

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Meanwhile, high-end laptop users might already have dedicated graphics powerful enough to negate the need for external acceleration.

The fastest mobile GPU right now is an RTX 5090 24GB. It is a low power GB203 chip which nets performance between that of a desktop 5060Ti and 3080.

So no, there is still a ton of performance left on the table with an eGPU dock. You don't need to stick a desktop 5090 in there, a 5070Ti or 5080 would be plenty of uplift, even with the TB5 120Gbps bandwidth bottleneck.

And it just so happens that Razer sells TB5 equipped laptops.