Sapphire offers to boost the graphics performance of a laptop with the announcement of the GearBox 500 PULSE RX 6600 XT Thunderbolt 3 eGFX. It is an external graphics card (eGFX) offered through a small box.
This GearBox 500 Thunderbolt 3 takes the form of a case to be positioned on a desk. Internally it has a power supply of 500 Watts and especially a gaming graphics card. We find a solution Pulse Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB. The manufacturer indicates that the design has been worked in order to improve the airflow and therefore the cooling. The goal is to give a boost to the performance of Thunderbolt-enabled devices (Mac or PC).
GearBox 500 PULSE RX 6600 XT Thunderbolt 3 eGFX
The machine is normally able to offer the necessary power for gaming in 1080P. The graphics solution can scale up to a 350W model from AMD or Nvidia. The native graphics card, a PULSE RX 6600 XT, is equipped with an imposing dual-fan cooling system.
On the connectivity side we naturally have a Thunderbolt 3 port (40 Gbit/s) but also a LAN port (Gigabit Ethernet) and two USB 3.0 ports. To all this is added the PDC technology aka Power Delivery Charging to charge a laptop 60 Watts.
GearBox 500 Thunderbolt 3 PULSE RX 6600 XT eGFX – Specifications
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- Model: GearBox 500 Thunderbolt 3 eGFX
- Connect to the Thunderbolt 3 PC using a 40 Gbps cable
- GPU Bundle: PULSE Radeon RX 6600 XT,
- PCI-Express Bus: PCI-Express 3.0 x16 in x4 mode,
- Input: Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C for connecting to the PC,
- Outputs: 2 x USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000,
- Internal power supply: 500 Watts,
- Operating system support
- Windows 10 64-bit / Windows 11 64-bit,
- Apple macOS Monterey 12.1 or newer.
The press release does not specify any tariff.