Don't Buy Razer Core X Without Watching This Video! Is It Worth It? #Helpful Post

760what's up and welcome to the ops of

gizmos left Tech today we've got the

Razer core ex woohoo I'm really excited

about this this is the new $300 external

GPU from Razer this is in addition to

the Razer core v2 they are not

discontinuing that this is kind of like

a different model with different options

compared to the core v2 I'll be making a

separate video comparing this to the

Razer core v2 we're going to talk about

the Razer core X is it worth buying who

should even consider buying the Razer

core or just a GPUs in general what kind

of performance can you get to expect

with this thing I got it into did but

I've already done the like 3040

benchmarks with it with four different

laptops now I'm giving away an iPhone 8

red edition you've got until the end of

May to enter that I'll be picking the

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down below as well let's hop right into

this review it's gonna be freakin epic

let's get started so what are you g pu z

GPU stands for external graphics

processing unit this allows you to pair

a super high powered graphics card with

a ultra thin and light laptop or an

outdated laptop that has an older GPU

and it allows you to easily and quickly

upgrade your graphics card further on

down the line let's say to three years

from now you can just pop in a super

high-end new graphics card and suddenly

you're kicking ass again EGP use are

kind of the dream in terms of price to

performance ratio at least in theory how

well do these things actually perform in

practice it can be quite a bit different

depending on your setup we've got this

geforce gtx 980ti founders Edition right

here on the razor core X so the specs on

the razor core X's that comes with a 650

watt power supply that's going to be

plenty enough power to run literally any

GPU that it's currently out other

advantages of the razor core X's that's

going to

be able to put out up to 100 watts of

power out to your laptops entirely from

the Thunderbolt 3 power adapter which is

really cool because then you're

literally only plugging in one thing and

it's you don't even have to worry about

a power adapter at that point another

major difference between this one and

the previous versions of the core is

that this will allows you to have a

three slotted GPU basically you're going

to be able to fit in extra big GPUs

which have bigger heat sinks which

allows for higher turbo clocks which is

just fantastic another major difference

is that this is only three hundred

dollars so this one also does not have

any USB ports or LAN port on the back

it's literally just the GPU set up and

that's it so what kind of performance

can you expect to get out of any

graphics card that you put in here when

you're running the firestrike benchmark

you're utilizing 90 to 100% of the power

of the GPU and that's fantastic that's

the ideal situation with a full desktop

setup you're looking at around 6,800

approximate firestrike Ultra score with

this 1080 Ti but when paired up with a

laptop you get about 5,800 so about a

thousand points less but in actual

practice when you're using this bad boy

to play The Witcher 3 pub gee overwatch

we only saw utilization rates of between

50 to 80 percent so that means we're not

tapping into the ultimate potential of

this GPU and part of that might be

because we're using the Thunderbolt 3

port part of that might be the drivers

that the game is using and part of that

might be the optimization of that game

and part of that a large part of that is

that we're pairing laptop processors up

with a desktop GPU that means when the

laptop processor is bottlenecking that

game you're gonna get the same

performance we're using this or using

your internal GPU such as a gtx 1060

there's two things to keep in mind when

dealing with these Thunderbolt 3

external GPUs you really want to have an

external monitor because you want that

data moving one way if you hook up this

external GPU to your laptop and you're

playing games on the laptop screen you

have data going out to the external GPU

and then coming back into the laptop

into that two-way traffic causes a lot

of bottlenecking

and can severely reduce your potential

performance and

number two your laptop needs to have

ideally four PCIe lanes so the Dell XPS

15 that we tested with this I did not it

actually only had two PCIe lanes and it

still worked it worked quite well with

fortnight but we had some issues running

overwatch on it ideally at least four

PCIe lanes because that'll give you the

most potential throughput and the

maximum performance now I was able to

successfully pair the core X with

multiple laptops including this GS 65

self this is the brand-new MSI gaming

laptop and it's a 15.6 inch weighs 4.1

pounds extremely thin and light has a

six core processor and has a 1070 max-q

GPU in it this is 0.7 inches thin and

only 4.1 pound I'll have a link for this

laptop if you want to check it out down

below another laptop we tested the core

X with was the razor blade Pro 17 inch

this has an i7 7700 HQ processor as well

as 8 GTX 1060 laptop GPU then we have

the Dell XPS 15 that has an i7 77 at HQ

and it has a gtx 1050 graphics card and

then you have the Razer Blade stealth

that has the 8550 you with an Intel 620

GPU that's integrated with the processor

and that is a significant downgrade from

anything else that we're talking about

here we have those four laptops that

we've tested with the Razer cortex how

does each one perform and is it worth

buying the core X to pair up with each

of them if you have the Razer Blade self

or a similar ultrabook with a

Thunderbolt 3 port this thing will turn

that ultrabook into a beastly gaming

computer you'll be able to play nearly

all modern games at reasonable frame

rates if not exceptional frame rates now

I have compiled of a whole bunch of

benchmarks from the different laptops

are reviewed and the external GPUs a

review which includes the rage with

Corby 2 and the Razer core X now if you

want to go check out those full list of

benchmarks I'll have a link down below

for some of the games we saw dramatic

improvements and for some of the games

we actually saw some FPS fall off when

using the Razer core versus the internal

GPU but I'd like to bring your attention

to a couple of key benchmarks with the

Razer Blade stealth paired up with a

1080 TI

in an external GPU on average we had 94

frames per second in pub G an overwatch

we were looking at 141 frames per second

dota 2 we managed 103 witcher 3 we had

65 frames per second in rocket League we

were pumping out 165 frames per second

and in fire strike ultra we managed to

get 59 68 which is actually the best

score that we've managed to get out of

this external GPU with the Dell XPS 15

the internal graphics car only managed

33 frames per second in fortnight but

with the external card it managed 103

frames per second that is a three times

graphical boost which is just freakin

insane

the main downside as I said with the

Dell XPS 15 is that it only has two PCI

englands so some of the games just

aren't going to perform very well for

example overwatch I managed to get 77

frames per second on its own with the

GTX 1050 with the court X it managed to

get 144 frames per second but it was

glitching out in weird ways so I can't

really recommend playing that game with

that laptop setup now we have the Razer

Blade Pro and the GS 65 now both of

these laptops have ultra powerful

built-in dedicated GPUs so with my razor

blade Pro my default graphics card the

1060 was repeatedly turned off and

almost like essentially uninstalled I

had to keep reinstalling my graphics

card driver in order to get it to work

to get it to work with the GS 65 south

and XPS 15 all we had to do was plug it

in and install the latest Nvidia driver

and it worked perfectly and it instantly

switched between the 1080 Ti and the

built-in graphics card so here enters

the issue of when we're using the

built-in graphics cards sometimes those

built-in graphic cards outperform the

Corp X with a 1080 Ti and that's simply

because of the optimization of using a

laptop with an external GPU depending on

the game it may or may not be worth it

even using the external GPU if for

example we're able to use a higher

percentage of the 1080i power and more

Gamze then yes it will absolutely become

worth it to have it's in my opinion not

worth it having a laptop with an NVIDIA

GTX 1060 and an external graphics card

enclosure unless you're an absolute max

performance nut the civil fact is if you

want a laptop with the maximum potential

gaming performance having a laptop with

a GTX 1080 in it that is going to be

your best performing laptop graphics

period getting something like this or

the new razor blade is going to be a far

better bang for the buck then buying the

razor blade stealth plus an external

graphics enclosure plus buying that

extra graphics card on top of that

that's going to run you around twenty to

twenty three hundred dollars when

instead you can get just as good or

better performance with something like

this or the new Razer Blade 15 so I

think there are three major camps the

people that you consider getting this

Razer core X or other EGP you enclosures

the first camp is if you're an Apple

users and that has like a MacBook Pro

and you want to really amp up your

potential graphics the second group is

people who want to buy an ultrabook that

really crave having a thin and light

system like the Razer Blade stealth you

can really get an incredible gaming

experience with one of those thin and

light systems using an external graphics

enclosure the third group of people is

those people that bought a budget gaming

computer or they have an older gaming

laptop that has a Thunderbolt 3 port on

it if you have a gtx 1050 or lower in

your laptop then you're gonna see a

massive performance gain with the Razer

core X if you already have a laptop

buying something like this is only give

me a thousand dollars extra getting

something like this that's actually

better than this is gonna cost you 2,000

so if you already have a gaming laptop

that has an outdated GPU or has a

lower-end week or GPU then this external

graphics card enclosure is a pretty

attractive option rather than buying a

whole new laptop so who should

absolutely not buy the razor core X in

my opinion if you have a gtx 1070 or

1080 it's just not worth it there's too

many little driver things to

and efficiencies if they address those

issues and we can utilize the GPU at a

higher rate then I think this might

absolutely be worth it even if you have

a 1070 or 1080 for example at 1080

versus a 1080 Ti it's a 20 to 30% gap

but because of the inefficiency of the

bandwidth of the Thunderbolt 3 and the

laptop processor not being as high-end

as a desktop processor you're just not

getting the same level of performance

especially in demanding cpu titles like

Witcher 3 and pub G that say if they can

get the optimization there in the games

and the drivers then absolutely it'll be

totally worth it having a 1080 Ti that's

overclockable even if you have a GTX

1080 in your laptop that's my tape on

the razor cortex and I'll have links

down below if you want to pick one of

these bad boys up and also I'll link to

the razor cord v2 review that I did a

little while back anyway thanks so much

for watching don't forget to enter the

iPhone 8 red Edition giveaway and we'll

see you next time Brandon