A few years back , Asus had an idea — what if you could express around an passing portable gadget like theROG Flow Z13on the go , but give it a grown encouragement of top executive with external artwork when you seat down at a desk ? The solution was the XG Mobile , which was an all - in - one gadget that give you an external GPU and full background connectivity over a undivided cable television . The problem was that Asus used its own proprietary cable plan and connexion , limiting the tractability of its external graphics .
AtCES 2025 , Asus is in conclusion address that problem .
The 2025 XG Mobile ditches Asus ’ proprietary connection in favor ofThunderbolt 5 , allowing you to utilise it with near any machine with a Thunderbolt connexion . That includes onetime gadget with Asus ’ XG connection , such as the originalROG Ally , as well as gadget bundle a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 port . Asus claims its new XG Mobile is fully backward compatible , and optimizes the full hurrying of the Thunderbolt connection .
It ’s not just a young connection , either . Asus redesigned the XG Mobile from top to bottom . Internally , Asus says the 2025 XG Mobile is 3 decibels quieter than the previous translation , mostly due to a new vapor bedchamber intent , which Asus says offers 54 % more cooling Earth’s surface area . The ship’s company also says it ’s the thinnest and lightest external GPU it has ever made , clock in at 1.2 inches thick and 2.1 pounds .
For connectivity , Asus includes HDMI 2.1 , DisplayPort 2.1 , an SD card reader , and dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 embrasure , along with the Thunderbolt 5 connexion , of course . The external shell has been redesigned as well , now sporting a semi - transparent case and RGB lighting that you could customize with Asus ’ Armoury Crate software system .
The self-aggrandising question about this external GPU is , well , the GPU . Asus says the 2025 XG Mobile will include Nvidia ’s newRTX 50 - seriesmobile GPUs , but it has n’t shared which artwork cards out of the newfangled lineup the XG Mobile will throng . The old version offer up to an RTX 4090 , though it ’s possible Asus will scale down to accommodate the small size .
Although the 2025 XG Mobile solves the connectivity consequence , it could still encounter software system progeny . That ’s certainly what I know when using theXG Mobile with the ROG Ally , as number one wood difference of opinion caused full system crashes in some cases . Price has been an issue with the XG Mobile in the past as well — the external GPU alone can be as much or more than the gadget you ’re plugging it into .
We ’ll just have to hold off until the 2025 XG Mobile is here to see if Asus has solved those problems . Asus has n’t revealed pricing or eject date details yet , though the 2025 XG Mobile should show up around the time Asus rolls out its 2025 gaming laptops , which commence in February .
