Gigabyte new $1500 eGPU is powered by a water-cooled RTX 2080 Ti

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Gigabyte’s latest eGPU is the Aorus RTX 2080 Ti, a $1500 external graphics box containing one of Nvidia’s most powerful consumer graphics cards. Rather than relying on air-cooling, this is the first external graphics card to use an all-in-one water-cooling system, and it includes a 240-mm radiator equipped by two 120-mm fans. The result is an accessory that should give a Thunderbolt 3-equipped laptop or desktop a decent graphics boost, all without producing too much noise. It’s a lot of kit for a reasonable price.

Including an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card makes this one of the most powerful eGPUs on the market. However, you shouldn’t expect it to offer the same kinds of performance as you’d get from installing the graphics card directly...

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