Alongside ASUS’s announcement of its newest ROG Flow X13 13-inch gaming pocket book, it has additionally unveiled an fascinating new exterior graphics dock to go together with that pocket book. Dubbed the ROG XG Mobile GV301, the exterior graphics dock is designed to enhance the ROG Flow X13’s capabilities, turning it into a strong and light-weight moveable gaming rig. And although graphics docks themselves are nothing new, this one stands out resulting from its portability, with the dock being related in measurement to a second laptop computer.
From a high-level perspective, the graphics dock lives as much as its identify. At its coronary heart, after all, is a high-performance GPU, with ASUS tapping NVIDIA’s new laptop-grade RTX 3070 and 3080 adapters, each of which can be a big step up from the Flow X13’s built-in GeForce GTX 1650 graphics adapter. Along with this, the dock can energy the Flow X13 – due to its built-in 280W energy provide – and gives a number of ports together with HDMI and DisplayPort, a Gig Ethernet jack, four USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports, and an built-in SD card reader.
Notably, like some previous efforts to offer graphics docks for skinny & mild laptops, ASUS goes with a proprietary connection right here relatively than counting on Thunderbolt. The unnamed connector is cut up intwo two segments, with one carrying PCIe 3.zero x8 information whereas the opposite phase is a USB-C connector for carrying energy and USB information. This considerably limits the compatibility of the dock, nevertheless it does present twice as a lot PCIe bandwidth as Thunderbolt Three or four in any other case would.
As beforehand talked about, one among ASUS’s design targets for the ROG XG Mobile is portability, in order that it may be carried round with the Flow X13 relatively than serving as a comparatively static dock at house. To that finish the dock is 29.6mm thick, with a 208mm x 155mm footprint, making it comparable in measurement to a second laptop computer. It additionally weighs related (if a bit denser) at a flat 1kg (2.2lbs). Fittingly, ASUS is supplying a sleeve with the Flow X13 to hold each the laptop computer and XG Mobile, simplifying this course of some.
The thermal answer on the ASUS ROG XG Mobile
The ROG XG Mobile is due this quarter, with pricing to be introduced.
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