#External Graphics Card

It's 2022 and with the unpredictable prices of graphics cards rising since the beginning of the pandemic, the question of whether getting an eGPU is really worth it comes to mind. An eGPU is an external graphics processing unit. These normally end up on systems that don't advertently accept a regular graphics card. Once set up, the laptops route requests to the external GPU instead of the default shared graphics card inside. Locally, the AORUS Gaming box is available for around Php90,000 with an RTX 3080 graphics card. If paired with an Asus VivoBook S14 equipped with an Intel Core i5-1135G7, 16GB RAM,512GB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Graphics, Windows 10 at Php49,995 we feel would be better off choosing the ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo to maximize the extra features, graphics card, and well, portability. With all the thoughts on this article, buyers should have a general idea of what to expect when buying an external graphics card as well as its pros and cons. Though we feel that laptops were made to be portable and the addition of an external graphics card in the bag pretty much defeats the purpose. Read more in our articles including "Laptop w/ eGPU: Why it's not worth getting" and "Lisuan Tech 6nm GPUs unveiled: China’s first homegrown graphics cards".