You're looking at 115fps in the likes of Horizon Zero Dawn, 144fps in Hitman 3, and 80fps in Metro Exodus. There isn't a lot between them in terms of pricing either, which essentially means your choice is going to come down to whichever form factor works best for you. The competition here is the chunky but powerful Asus ROG Strix Scar 17, and the new MSI GS66 Stealth, which can get loud in use, but is an otherwise decent classic gaming laptop. While it isn't a clean sweep across all our benchmarks, it's generally jostling for position with the other 3080 machines we've looked at lately. It does provide the bandwidth needed though, and in that vital respect, it works well.Īs ever, it's the performance that makes or breaks a high-end offering like this, and on the whole, the ROG Flow X13 with XG Mobile makes for a potent combo for handling today's games. Unclipping the connector isn't easy either, which can be frustrating if you're in a rush. The connector itself is large, and while a clever combo of a standard USB Type-C port and the PCIe 3.0 x8 interface, it is a chunky solution where everything else is brilliantly sleek and minimalistic. Its lightness works against it somewhat here as well.
The data cable and power cord come out of either end of the unit meaning it ends up fighting for desk space.
Despite supporting off-vertical and horizontal placement, it never feels like it's really in the right place. If there's a problem with the Asus solution it's that the short connector between the dock and the laptop is unwieldy. This offers up sufficient bandwidth for gaming, as well as for other tasks, such as file transfers between the dock and the laptop-the XG Mobile has 4x USB 3.2 ports, an RJ-45 for networking as well as HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. Asus's answer to this is to use a PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. It's easy to slide in your bag next to the laptop and take the whole thing with you.Įxternal GPUs have been tried before, but one of the problems they've faced is insufficient bandwidth between the external GPU and the machine itself. This is, and even the eGPU dock doesn't weigh too much at just 1kg.
And while you can buy a desktop machine for less, such a machine wouldn't be portable. $3,000 is undeniably a lot of money for a gaming laptop, but that's the ballpark you're looking at for this kind of hardware. It's the complete package of the Flow X13 and XG Mobile that makes sense for gamers, which retails for around $3,000 (£3,000). In fact, I'd go as far as to say this isn't a gaming laptop worth considering on its own. I/O: 1x 3.5mm audio jack, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 2x USB 3.2 Type-A, 1x USB 3.2 Type-C, 1x ROG XG Mobile interfaceĮven so, I wouldn't normally recommend going anywhere near a laptop that cost as much as this does when it only lays claim to an entry-level last-gen GPU-on its own the laptop costs $1,500 (£1,500).
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