External GPU for your Handheld PC [ONEXGPU]

Wish it was slightly bigger with more cooling so it would stay quieter.

Will this work with loki max

For the price get the laptop

If you just get a desktop gpu and oculink you get way more for way less

700 is . . . steep. If this class of hardware can reach something like $450 then I think it would pick up some mass appeal.

Let's tell it like it is: This looks like a great product that should probably be in 300-400 range.
The price it has now just kills it for only people who have money to burn on this kind of the product.
The fact that you can buy a full blown computer with screen, cpu, RAM, storage, keyboard and battery aka laptop for only 400USD more just shows just how bad that price is.
Because there is no way that AMD 7940HS, 16Gb of RAM, 1Tb of storage. 16" LCD screen, keyboard, battery and the laptop chassis cost only 400USD.

I do not know how much they pay to AMD for the GPU chip itself to justify this price.

The idea is great, but the actual play-off (definitely with the price) is not.
If I were to get this, the most I could see would be to be able to travel with it, but with the weight I don't think I'd want to. Hotels would be alright, or travelling and staying at a friends house, but most of the time when I'm in a situation like that I'm either only at the hotel to sleep, or my friends got a system we'll play on together anyways.
For home use, and using the hand-held when out at work or getting a bus, I'd much rather get a PC (even small factor for those with little space), since you can upgrade it bit by bit when it's needed, get the performance of a desktop GPU, and with cloud-saves being commonplace on most launchers (like Steam) you don't have to worry about moving games across… You can even install the game on your desktop, then transfer it to the handheld when you get home so you don't have to wait for the download to go through again, if you're using Steam.

Wish you would have posted this two day ago I just got this If I had seen this and knew fallout new Vegas doesn't run on the 7600xt drivers I would not have ordered it now I'm stuck with it.

Really helpful video, liked and subbed 👍🏻

Do you know if this will work with the Bosgame P1 minipc over regular usb c? (Not thunderbolt)

Nice but very expensive… 560£… i think the better price is 300£

Does the AMD fluid motion frames work on it ?

I love the concept of these, until you realize that a 7600xt is a $330 GPU, which means you are paying a $370 overhead, for a case, a hub, and a charger, for a less powerful GPU.

And that assumes that it stays at that $700 price, and doesn't go up to the listed MSRP, ever.

The hard reality is, I can put together a whole desktop gaming computer for the price of this accessory, with a 7600XT in it. So if this thing lives at home, and you plug your handheld into it to play at the house, you're better served making a desktop. If you just want a little mobile fun and a good experience at home, you can get a refurbished steamdeck for as low as $280, and put $700 into a solid 1080p/1440p gaming desktop for a total cost of about $1000 compared to the $1400 you're dumping into this dock and a compatible gaming handheld. Toss that entire $1400 budget at a desktop and you have a rock solid 1440p/4k machine.

The use cases for these mobile docks just don't make sense. If you have a $1400 budget for a portable gaming device, and you actually spend the majority of your life in a situation where you're not doing most of your gaming at home, where you can game on a better desktop? You can get gaming laptops with 4060's in them for $1100. A laptop GPU that scores significantly higher than the GPU in this device. So you could get that $1100 laptop, and that re-furbished steamdeck and have a better laptop, AND a handheld for truly mobile use.

At no point, ever, does it make a lick of financial sense to buy this unit. Not for home use, not for mobile use, unless, specifically, you already have a compatible handheld, and at that point the GPD unit costs less with the same chip in it, and is more portable besides.

The question is, how many people buying a handheld PCs don't own a PC already. A RX 7600 XT with 16GB RAM costs around 370 Euros incl. 19% VAT here. 400 Euros would be the max I would be willing to spend if I would travel often, wanting to play in high details on my trips and wouldn't go for a gaming laptop.

Just my opinion but yes as far as being able to hook a GPU up to your handheld, I think is cool and functional, but the price is going to keep it from being as big a seller as it could be

I bought one of these with the same Minisforum Mini PC showed on this video to replace my desktop PC I bought new in 2017. Using the mini PC with this eGPU has been pretty great, haven't had any issues so far and the combo plays everything really well. The power supply is pretty beefy and I had to use a second extension cord for it.

You can't live with Your own failure (APU is not strong enough for mid-high games)
Where did that bring You, Back to me (GPU based on PC)

That price is absurd.

This is the first time I've heard of oculink. Guess I've been living under a rock.

bro 2:09 AMD GPUs are not in the Ryzen line. Radeon is what it is. also, missed an opportunity to utilize Radeon Super Resolution. with it, you can probably extract 5% to 10% more performance for games that do not support native FSR.

This looks cool, but I kind of wish that these handheld PCs would design their eGPU dock in a way where you can set your handheld system in it rather than having it dangling somewhere.
Also, there being two different USB 4 standards (the 40GB/s, and 80GB/s) totally isn't going to result in confusion. Bought an Alienware gaming laptop and while it supports USB 4 and eGPUs, the bandwidth is so bad where you may as well just run on the dedicated GPU it comes with.

I want to be able to strap something like this to my Legion Go and have power and display on the handheld unit itself.

Nice review. One thing is missing, IMHO, it's the test of an SSD, installed. R/W speeds, temperature (important, when you sharing tight space with hot GPU!)…..