External Cards for Laptops

[Conan257]

But your laptop must be running Radeon Crimson?

What if you have an internal NVidia GPU?

 

[Saundie]

If I'm reading that correctly, you will be able to run external GFX (ATI/AMD) on any machine that comes with thunderbolt 3 as long as the Bios is updated to match? That will be a massive game changer if it's true. Anyone know what the T3 penetration on the market is like at the moment?

There's the Dell XPS 13 and 15, a couple of HP Zbooks and the Razer Blade Stealth - that's about it really. It's fairly safe to say that the 2016 Macbooks will get it, too. I expect Dell will add it to their Precision laptops, given that it'll mean they can finally ditch the docking station entirely, and point people at the TB15 port replicator.

I do wonder about the pricing on these things; the HP Thunderbolt 3 port replicator is £200 and the Dell TB15 will be the same. I hope Razer don't hop on the bandwagon of charging through the nose for new tech, but I can see them charging £300 for a Razer Core with no GPU just because they can...

 

[Conan257]

Looks like the new 14" Razer Blade has TB3 and will work with the Core.

Shame the price is crazy for what you get... I don't really want a 970m if I have a Core...

 

[Saundie]

It looks like the Razer Core will be available next month for $499, according to AnandTech. I wouldn't be surprised if that ends up being £500 by the time they get it over here...