RTX 4090 Lightning 3 graphics dock test, 20% performance loss

CTOnews.com January 21 news, according to VideoCardz news, player tests found that Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics card output through Thunder Snake's Thunder 3 graphics dock will have a 20% performance loss.

Picture Source OmegaMalkior / eGPU according to introduction, OmegaMalkior, a member of the eGPU Forum, matched the RTX 4090 public graphics card with the Asustek Zenbook 14X Space Edition notebook for Thunder 3 graphics dock, and the video card dock model is Thunder Snake Core X.

The test results show that the RTX 4090 video card may lose up to 20% of its performance when it is output through the video dock.

At present, lightning graphics dock is suitable for mid-range desktop graphics cards, and the performance loss will be smaller. CTOnews.com learned that the next generation of USB4 2.0 and Lightning 4 will also be launched soon, with an increase in bandwidth from 40Gbps to 80Gbps, when high-end graphics cards will have better performance release when they are output through the graphics dock.