The Asus ROG Flow X13 is a laptop with a portable external GPU

The Asus ROG Flow X13 is a laptop with a portable external GPU

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Asus ROG Flow X13 has the dream of having a thin and light laptop connected to an external graphics card for dramatically better gaming performance. laptop equipped with an 8-core AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS processor and Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics. The other half is the Asus ROG XG Mobile, a powerful external GPU with the latest mobile version of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 GPU.

Asus ROG Flow X13

The laptop itself is 15.8 mm thick and weighs 2.9 pounds. Meanwhile, the eGPU dock measures 155 x 208 x 29 mm and weighs only 2.2 pounds. Asus claims its compact eGPU is only 6% the size of a traditional external GPU box that uses graphics cards.

In terms of power, the laptop’s built-in GPU has enough graphics wombs to get you through most of your tasks with 1,255 MHz power. But for gaming, you really want to use the Nvidia RTX 3080 with its full 1,810MHz power and all its 2nd generation RT Cores.

In addition, Asus has developed a laptop that is not only ultra-portable, but also versatile for various out-of-game applications.

The Asus ROG Flow X13 is a convertible laptop with a 360-degree hinge that allows users to flip the screen and use the machine as a Windows tablet. In this mode, users can draw, play games on touch, and watch streaming media. The screen also looks fantastic on paper with Ultra HD 4K resolution, 16:10 aspect ratio and 120Hz refresh rate.

As for its other specifications, the Asus ROG Flow X13 DDR4X contains 4,266MHz memory and SSD capacity up to 1TB. You can also expect ten hours of video playback from the battery of this notebook.

And if you want to play, simply connect the ROG XG Mobile to the laptop with a proper cable. Instead of using Thunderbolt 3 or 4, Asus decided to develop a custom PCIe 3.0 x 8 interface that he said is faster.

Users can connect this eGPU box to a game monitor using the DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0a ports. This compact external GPU also serves as a 280 W AC adapter for the laptop and I / O hub thanks to the attached USB 3.2 Gen 2 connector.

The Asus ROG Flow X13 should now be pre-ordered on Asus’s website, but as of this writing, the company has not yet announced pricing or availability.

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