Any Razer Core or Alienware Graphics Amplifier success stories?

I want to ditch my Alienware 18 w/ SLI 880m setup for an Alienware or Razer 13" laptop w/ external graphics option. Anyone having significant success with this?

 

the Razer Blade Stealth's CPU bottlenecks any GPU above a 1050 - not worth using that one. You REALLY need a quad-core proper mobile CPU nowadays.

 

Yes the AW 13 would work a lot better with the AW GA.

 

I presume he meant Razer Blade (which is roughly equivalent to Alienware 13), not Stealth.

 

But that one runs much hotter, louder and already has a 1060, which defeats the purpose of eGPU as the 6700HQ and 7700HQ both bottleneck a 1070 or 1080

 

7700HQ bottlenecks those cards? Perhaps in VGA resolutions, but I presume the OP had a realistic usecase in mind.

The bigger issue would be the penalty of running those things through TB3 and Intel drivers which might be up to 15-20%. Not sure if Alienware solution performs much better in this regard apart from having a bigger bandwidth.

 

Well, 6700HQ bottlenecks my 970M in certain games, I'd say it's a much bigger issue on a 1070.

 

That depends on the game and resolution, but any such bottleneck loss is probably less significant compared to the performance improvement which 1070 brings in theory over the similarly "bottlenecked" 1060 on the Razer Blade.

I say in theory as it's hard to find an in-depth review on these things which is what the OP is asking for. There are only users posting on forums. E.g.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...nware-graphic-amplifier-with-gtx-1080.792591/

It seems to be running pretty well there, but I've seen other tests where the losses were higher.

 

Dell XPS 9365 (GTX 1060 eGPU Mantiz Venus) vs. Alienware 13 R3


here some benchmark
https://egpu.io/forums/thunderbolt-...e-half-h2d-bandwidth-issue/paged/7/#post-8392

 

The Alienware runs super hot.

 

with Akitio Node

13R3 – GTX1060 dGPU / 13R3 – GTX1060 eGPU / XPS9365 – GTX1060 eGPU



Unigine Valley 2,368 2,408 2,067
Unigine Heaven 1,431 1,363 1,188
Unigine Superposition 2,085 2,073 2,164
3DMark Time Spy 3,537 3,677 3,507
3DMark Fire Strike 11,326 11,005 9,292

Metro Last Night Redux 83 FPS 71 FPS 58
Rise of the Tomb Raider 54.28 FPS 47.83 FPS 43.13
Tom Clancy’s The Division 49.9 FPS 40.8 FPS 39.1

so there is only a loss of fps between 20%(tom clancy/ rise of) and 30% (metro last) for dell 9365. i think it is a good result for a cpu like Intel Core i7-7Y75 1.3 GHz and without plug (only battery)

 

Alienware 13 actually runs quite cool - not sure what you're talking about.

 

Can confirm that the aw13r3 runs nice and cool. No idea where that comment came from...