Powercolor announces Devil Box external GPU box

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Powercolor announces Devil Box external GPU box

Powercolor has announced its its own version of an external graphics card solution called the Devil Box.

Based on AMD's XConnect Technology, the Powercolor Devil Box uses Thunderbolt 3 40Gbps interface and supports PCI-Express x16 graphics cards with maximum dimensions of 310x140x50mm as well as a 375W.

According to Powercolor, the 375W TDP is enough to power AMD Radeon R9 Fury, R9 Nano and any R9 300 series graphics card or Nvidia's GTX Titan X, GTX 980 Ti and any other Geforce 900 series graphics card. It appears that the new Pascal-based Geforce GTX 1080 and Geforce GTX 1070 graphics cards did not make it to the list but we see no reason why it should not work.

The rest of the features include Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0 and a SATA 6Gbps port, which should allow users to add a 2.5-inch HDD or SSD to the system.

Unfortunately, Powercolor's announcement did not include any details about the price or the precise availability date, but hopefully we will hear more information during Computex 2016 show.

This is good for those using laptops and wanting to play AA titles games.
Hopefully its a cheaper version of razer core

 

[wwenze]

For the same money and size can buy mITX rig so I dun really see the point.

Even when I stayed hostel I have a laptop and a desktop just for gaming. Just place one motherboard in the cupboard.

 

[tremor]

Powercolor announces Devil Box external GPU box

This is good for those using laptops and wanting to play AA titles games.
Hopefully its a cheaper version of razer core

Huh how? How do you route the graphics output back to laptop display?

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Huh how? How do you route the graphics output back to laptop display?

Thunderbolt 10char

 

[tremor]

Thunderbolt 10char

Laptop display usually just takes input from laptop display card. I doubt can take external display.

 

[Kusanagi]

Laptop display usually just takes input from laptop display card. I doubt can take external display.

would you really want to game on a laptop screen?

the setup is not meant to be portable so I'd imagine one would have a monitor to go along with this setup

 

[Entry Level PC]

Price maybe Usd$1000 just for the box.
Too steep lah.

 

[MoneyFace =p]

Lol even Alienware Graphics Amplifier also smaller.

 

[princewenle]

Will you bring this out with your laptop?

I would rather play my PC at home.
Use laptop to play game was not my style.

 

[mini_cow]

I love e-GPU concepts. Its brilliant for people (like me) with small houses, small spaces and small tables which only looks really good with a SFF HTPC. Also for people who love SFF in general and for people who dislike the big (ugly) black boxes with all the neon/led lights and loud radiator fans. And this is also for the people who use different laptops and move around often.

I love the e-GPU concept and it appears that its finally going mainstream. I can foresee the huge ass desktop going the way of the dinosaurs soon!

 

[mini_cow]

Or imagine this set up. You have 1-3 monitors in your "battlestation" at home. You hook up your work laptop to it (in daisy chain) when you want to work. Or you hook up your personal (super sleek and slim) laptop/touchpad/surface pro to the monitors for play. Then if you wish to game, you hook up the e-GPU. When you are done, you just put everything away.

In every situation, you get no mess, no fuss and no desktop. But you get all the advantages to a full desktop set up. Albeit one which is portable and sleek

 

[mini_cow]

I also like small. If possible, I want to ditch desktop altogether and use NUC with one of these external GPU box. But right now, the design is so FUGLY. It looks like a piece of sh!t.

i agree it looks ugly. but give it time. i think e-GPUs will eventually make the desktop obsolete. At least its becoming mainstream. Just last year, the e-GPU concept was a very alien (and expensive) option. And people will just ask: why dont you get a full desktop anyway? Its price to performance is just unbeatable.

But for those who cares alot about aesthetics and who don't wish to go the apple route, there really isnt many choices

 

[ragnarok95]

i agree it looks ugly. but give it time. i think e-GPUs will eventually make the desktop obsolete. At least its becoming mainstream. Just last year, the e-GPU concept was a very alien (and expensive) option. And people will just ask: why dont you get a full desktop anyway? Its price to performance is just unbeatable.

But for those who cares alot about aesthetics and who don't wish to go the apple route, there really isnt many choices

Yes, give it 20 yrs.

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

Will you bring this out with your laptop?

I would rather play my PC at home.
Use laptop to play game was not my style.

well tbh this kind of concept is meant to play at home or any fix locations u are at (office maybe?), not meant to bring out to play

 

[mini_cow]

Yes, give it 20 yrs.

there is already an interesting trend. The people who generally pay big money for extreme systems and for console subscriptions are the ones who grew up in the era of Desktops and consoles (people like me). I've discussed this with friends who work in the software industry (sorry no sources you just have to believe or disbelieve me) and he told me that the majority of subscribers for the xbox live is actually in the 30-45 segment. There is alot you can read from the data (like daddy buying their kids subscriptions) but in general, the people in this age group grew up with desktops and consoles.

The kids of today (the future) actually spend alot more time (and possibly in future) and money on mobile platforms.

So what I'm trying to get at it is, as we transition to smaller and more powerful units, I'm not surprised if PCs would one day be built to be portable. If its portable it generally has to be aesthetically appealing. So maybe we dont have to wait 20 years for a pretty gpu

 

[Kusanagi]

I believe the bottleneck would be thunderbolt, unless there is a more mature form of Connection that can remove this bottleneck, it shouldn't be able to overtake our general chassis systems

and let's not forget that enthusiast will always want to tinker with their gadgets; something a laptop doesn't allow

 

[mini_cow]

well tbh this kind of concept is meant to play at home or any fix locations u are at (office maybe?), not meant to bring out to play

well for now the main draw is to have a "mobile desktop" aka a razer stealth grade laptop with a powerful cpu and ram which you can bring to work and out to play. when you get back home, the laptop transforms into the core of your battlestation.

 

[ragnarok95]

there is already an interesting trend. The people who generally pay big money for extreme systems and for console subscriptions are the ones who grew up in the era of Desktops and consoles (people like me). I've discussed this with friends who work in the software industry (sorry no sources you just have to believe or disbelieve me) and he told me that the majority of subscribers for the xbox live is actually in the 30-45 segment. There is alot you can read from the data (like daddy buying their kids subscriptions) but in general, the people in this age group grew up with desktops and consoles.

The kids of today (the future) actually spend alot more time (and possibly in future) and money on mobile platforms.

So what I'm trying to get at it is, as we transition to smaller and more powerful units, I'm not surprised if PCs would one day be built to be portable. If its portable it generally has to be aesthetically appealing. So maybe we dont have to wait 20 years for a pretty gpu

You missed the point of why there is a need for e-gpu.

There is a need, but it won't be that major at least for the next few yrs. And by then, things will get smaller and faster, and people would have to think about this whole e-gpu thing again.

 

[mini_cow]

You missed the point of why there is a need for e-gpu.

There is a need, but it won't be that major at least for the next few yrs. And by then, things will get smaller and faster, and people would have to think about this whole e-gpu thing again.

For now, I'd say that performance of GPUs go up but the size doesnt come down as quick (partially due to maybe the cooling parts).

But definitely for sure, it will be a need for me. I intend to not get a new desktop when my current rig dies as much as I love hardware and PC parts because space is a real constraint.

And as you mention, as performance plateaus for CPUs, the difference between desktops and laptops are narrowing. The real difference now it seems would be the heatsinks/cooling systems

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

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