Handheld PCs have become more and more powerful over the last year, with the Steam Deck leading the charge, but it could never come close to a desktop PC with a dedicated GPU. These powerful GPUs are capable of gorgeous raytracing and high framerates, making your gaming experience as pristine as possible. So, what if there was some way to turn your handheld into a dedicated desktop experience? Well, ONE-NETBOOK plans to answer that with an eGPU of their own.
The OneXGPU is a portable dedicated graphics card (eGPU) designed to link up directly with underpowered devices and utilize its processing power to push games further. It utilizes an AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT, pushing what your device can do even more. This eGPU provides a massive boost, with over 4x more pipelines, larger memory bandwith, GDDR6 dedicated memory, a smaller size internally (6nm), and many more improvements over the Steam Deck's APU and Z1 Extreme/7840U chips.
To push things further, ONE-NETBOOK has integrated storage-expansion options directly into the eGPU. With an integrated M.2 2280 PCIe port, we can expand and download even more games to use. This is perfect for games that need a more powerful GPU to really enjoy, like Starfield or Returnal, or for games that really need stable framerates, like Call of Duty. There is also some neat RGB lighting to make it more appealing to look at!
The device also comes with an OCULINK Port (to connect to devices), a USB-C port, 2 HDMI ports, a DisplayPort, 2 USB 3.0 ports, and a LAN port. This can be used to expand the interfaces that your device has. While the pictures show it being used with the OneXFly, it should be compatible with other devices too, though it will need some testing. Overall, this is a fantastic new device and there are a ton of applications we can see it being used for!
There is no direct announcement for when it will go live yet, or pricing, but you can follow their Indiegogo page for updates!
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I'm pretty sure that the usb c port on the deck will be incompatible with this unfortunately.
True, but I have seen some people modify a couple of things to make it work. Something I plan to try myself!