- NXPORT EGPU integrates the 650w power into a small dock
- Thunderbolt and USB4 connections can even more powerful bottlenecks
- Open frame design leaves components vulnerable to damage
The search to transform commercial laptops into desktop powers has long been based on external GPU cabinets.
Traditional solutions have often been bulky, cumbersome and required with separate power supplies or complex assembly.
Nxport claims to be the smallest “Dock Egpu in the world”, promising 650W of integrated power in a palm form factor that measures 169 mm x 102 mm x 82 mm.
Compact form, great questions
Nxport’s central claim is that it houses an incorporated energy supply within a small open frame chassis.
On paper, this allows compatibility with almost all GPUs of degree of consumption and simplifies connectivity when supporting Thunderbolt 3/4/5 or USB4.
However, a compact and exposed design introduces concerns about heat management and physical protection.
The expensive components, including GPUs such as the GeForce RTX 5090 of $ 1,999, would sit exposed to dust, accidental contact and variable cooling conditions.
The device complies with the ATX 3.1 specification for the delivery of stable energy, but the performance of the real world under sustained load is not verified, leaving users cautionary about long -term reliability.
The company presents Nxport as a plug-and-play solution that can greatly improve the performance of the GPU.
In the company’s tests, the pairing of a budget laptop with a NVIDIA RTX 4060, according to the reports, produced an improvement of “6x reference games”.
The dock is also described as adequate for intensive creative work loads and training model training, capable of handling tasks that require “thousands of parallel operations.”
However, it is important to keep in mind that the performance can be limited by the bandwidth of the Thunderbolt or USB4 connections.
This could restrict the performance of high -end graphics cards despite the internal power of the dock.
The dock also supports GPU with several power connectors, including 12V-22×6, 8 pins, dual 8 pins, triple 8 pins and quad 8 pins (12VHPWR).
This provides flexibility for future updates without enclosure limitations.
Although Nxport claims to be the smallest “Dock Egpu in the world”, its weight of 1.3 kg is well above the G1 G1, a smaller old one, which weighs only 867 g.
The company states that the device is friendly to the budget, since an NXPort matched with an RTX 3050 costs $ 459 ($ 239 for base spring + $ 220 for the GPU).
Compared to $ 1,599 for a laptop with a similar RTX 4050 GPU, this offers a profitable way of achieving graphics at desktop level without replacing the existing portable computer.
The Nxport project is currently in Kickstarter, where it has raised $ 57,618 of 211 sponsors, exceeding its goal of $ 3,856.
With 21 remaining days in the campaign, the financing trajectory suggests a strong early interest, although the final product has not yet reached sponsors for an independent evaluation.
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