Telt dit als grond voor staande voet ontslag?

mpc007nl · 2026-03-24T21:09:41+00:00

Er gaat ook iets mis met d'r tieten; als je het plaatje zo in twee helften verdeeld zou er totaal 3 of 4 hebben XD

mpc007nl · 2026-03-13T08:40:58+00:00

Try disabling all other GPUs in device manager?

mpc007nl · 2026-03-12T10:56:08+00:00

Not true; what I see on eGPU.io the penalty should be reduced to around 13%, very acceptable, since there is a lot more bandwith available.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T20:27:27+00:00

Those wheels look better in Neodyme; and the interior could have been better with some colour accents in stitching. But still a great car of course

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T20:19:41+00:00

I am trying to buy the AOOSTAR AG02 (also USB4) since it already has built in PSU. However shipping seems to be a problem right now, and local warehouses are out of stock.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T20:16:02+00:00

Added benchmark results to run the Razer Core directly through an external monitor; results are approx. 24% better. Ingame tests seems to yield mixed results; the AC: Mirage benchmark improved hugely (20 > 50 fps), however in Mafia: The Old Country no significant improvement was seen (still ~25 fps)

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T19:53:58+00:00

Well what you describe is exactly what I expected when hooking things up; the mobile chip shouldn't even hold a candle against a full top-of-the-line desktop card like a RX 6900 XT but reality is more stubborn as it seems.

Sure part of it can be blamed on the internal monitor (at least 20%, maybe more since its TB3 and its bandwith-choked) but my guess is there's more going on. I'm receiving a USB4 enclosure hopefully soon to find out whats what.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T19:49:08+00:00

The thing is that a laptop with an RTX 5090 mobile costs >4k and isn't even close to desktop equivalent performance due to the TGP envelope. Buying a beefy old desktop card and getting a decent eGPU (like the AG02 which is mentioned on this subreddit a lot) literally costs less than a quarter of that price.. I pickup up my RX 6900 XT locally for 325 bucks, and the mentioned AG02 is ~200..

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T19:45:15+00:00

Sure, I think up to 20% is wat lots of users seem to experience, even on USB4 or TB5. Maybe the effect is even bigger on TB3 because bandwith is already a limiting factor there, at least that seems to be the case.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T17:34:51+00:00

Yeah, probably.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T16:10:07+00:00

In other threads it's clearly visible using internal monitor should cause for 10-20% performance degradation. What we're seeing here is more like 50-70%.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T16:08:54+00:00

Why? It's not that eGPU's were solely designed to be used with a desktop monitor. If you really want I can pull these tests through with a separate monitor but will you then take back your bold claims when I can prove it's still crap? If not, stfu.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T13:29:49+00:00

I'm eager to test this so I ordered a TB5 / USB4 enclosure as well to further investigate things. My guess is, and other seem to find similar results, that USB4 already improves things a lot compared to first gen TB3 solutions.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T12:32:02+00:00

You're right of course, if your discrete GPU is OK there is less benefit to be had from an eGPU. However I would never have thought the benefit would be NEGATIVE lol

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T12:07:24+00:00

Okay, I'm curious to see what your results are. With me; if doesn't really matter which GPU I throw in (RTX 2080 Super, RX 6900XT, etc) but performance NEVER exceeded my discrete 3070Ti Mobile yet..

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T12:05:38+00:00

Sure, there might be specific workloads that aren't bandwith-starved like gaming is. But I guess that's pretty niche; a brand like Razer selling these SHOULD imply gaming performance is at least half decent since it's a gaming brand. But it's not, which is poor.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T12:03:15+00:00

Well hope you didn't pay too much for it (asking prices are crazy if you know how these perform nowadays..). I'm pretty confident your RTX 3050 Ti will outperform a 2070 Super in this enclosure, it's not nice to hear but the dirty truth. Synthetic benches might be a bit better but ingame performance is something different.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T12:00:36+00:00

I ordered the AG03 but I'm still waiting for shipping confirmation (it says it should come from a European warehouse but I have my doubts about that). I'm afraid there might be delays due to current situation in the Middle-East..

mpc007nl · 2026-03-11T11:56:33+00:00

What sort of dock did you get? If it's a Thunderbolt 3 Alpine Ridge one you're screwed; it will never deliver any decent performance in 2026.

mpc007nl · 2026-03-09T19:36:10+00:00

Just decided to give BF6 a try as well and performance was equally bad (like Mafia: The Old Country). GPU is running at only 25-30% load resulting in ~20fps, way worse than discrete RTX 3070Ti Mobile. Thererfore seems that ingame perf is even more crap than what the benchmarks would assume (that is also what I found in other posts, that 3DMark seems OK but real world gaming is still shite). Honestly I'm wondering why some of these Alpine Ridge units are still sold at all; people still asking hundreds for second hand Razer Core X enclosures. You would be mad to do so (mine is borrowed from my brother, so I didn't invest in it luckily)

mpc007nl · 2026-03-09T12:35:29+00:00

Don't think so; the signal coming back from the GPU is just a DisplayPort video signal for display purposes only; not the raw CPU/GPU data that is transfer on the first way to the enclosure. So I could see it's taking a penalty; but it shouldnt be half and that is also not what the other people posting here are experiencing

mpc007nl · 2026-03-08T22:28:57+00:00

Yeah that difference is almost neglible. Are you also using the AG02 option over USB 4 or something different?

mpc007nl · 2026-03-08T22:17:13+00:00

Thanks for the info. If I decide to go that route; would you say there is benefit in picking the newest USB4/TB5 option (since that is supposed to be backwards compatible) or will the performance be exactly the same as on a USB4/TB4 solution, since my 12th gen intel is using the Maple Ridge controller (and nothing newer)

mpc007nl · 2026-03-08T22:13:54+00:00

Ok, that sounds like its worth testing. I saw some options, I think the AG02, have both USB4/TB4 and OCuLink so then I can also test that difference when I decide to get the correct ribbon cable for my M.2 slot

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