So you’re getting a pretty robust docking station along with that GPU. Now, you need a laptop or gaming handheld with a Thunderbolt 5 port to use the Asus ROG XG Mobile, but we expect to see ...

The Asus ROG Ally X is currently ... to the JSAUX docking station, but its power passthrough is slightly lower (yet still acceptably fast) at 85 W. The ROG XG Mobile external GPU dock not only ...

TL;DR: ASUS has introduced the ROG XG Mobile, the first Thunderbolt 5 external GPU dock, featuring NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU with 24GB GDDR7 memory. It supports up to 140W power ...

Thanks to Thunderbolt 5 support, Asus claims the new ROG XG Mobile can achieve up to 80 gigabits per second of bandwidth, a significant upgrade from the 63 Gbps offered by its predecessor.

While Asus’ last-gen XG Mobile also boasted up to an Nvidia 4090 ... including Asus’ own ROG Ally X, you’ll likely want the still-rare Thunderbolt 5 to get the full GPU bandwidth here.