**A New Era in PC Performance: The Oculink Advantage**

In recent months, we've witnessed a significant breakthrough in PC performance technology, and it's all thanks to the emergence of oculink. This innovative method allows for seamless connectivity between PCs and external devices, enabling users to access powerful GPU capabilities from their desktops. In this article, we'll delve into our first-hand experience with the Oculink technology, exploring its benefits, advantages, and potential applications.

**Horizon Zero Dawn Benchmark**

Our testing began with Horizon Zero Dawn's built-in benchmark, which provided a comprehensive understanding of the Oculink system's capabilities. Running at 1080p ultra settings, we were astonished by the outstanding performance of this setup. With an AMD Ryzen 7 7700M CPU paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card, our system achieved an average of 112 FPS, a maximum of 207, and a minimum of 26. This impressive performance was entirely unexpected, as it didn't require any tweaking or modifications to the system. The Oculink technology truly made its presence felt, delivering exceptional results that rival some of the most powerful gaming laptops on the market.

**Cyberpunk 2077 Performance**

Next, we tested Cyberpunk 2077's benchmark at 1080p High settings, and our results were equally impressive. With an average frame rate of 91 FPS, this little setup demonstrated remarkable performance, staying in line with many online benchmarks that feature more powerful GPUs. This is a testament to the Oculink system's ability to deliver high-performance capabilities without the need for external modifications or upgrades. The seamless connectivity offered by oculink has truly transformed our gaming experience.

**Mini PC Testing: GPD MiniPC 790**

We took the opportunity to test the GPD MiniPC 790, a compact device that features an AMD Ryzen 9 7940H CPU and an M.2 slot for the Oculink connection. Running at X4 3.0 instead of X4 4.0, this setup initially seemed less powerful than expected. However, when connected to oculink over USB4, we noticed a significant boost in performance. In Horizon Zero Dawn's benchmark, our average frame rate increased from an impressive 112 FPS with the win Max 2 to an outstanding 80 FPS with Oculink. This remarkable difference in performance highlights the advantages of using oculink for PC performance enhancement.

**USB4 vs. Thunderbolt 4: A Performance Comparison**

In a surprise twist, our testing revealed that connecting the MiniPC 790 over USB4 yielded better performance results than using Thunderbolt 4. The Oculink technology seems to have an edge when it comes to compatibility with USB4 devices, allowing for seamless connectivity and improved performance. This is particularly significant, as many users are familiar with Thunderbolt 4 docks and may be hesitant to adopt the new USB4 standard.

**Future Testing and Potential Applications**

As we continue to explore the capabilities of oculink, we're excited about the possibilities it presents for PC enthusiasts. With future testing planned for various devices and applications, including Linux compatibility, we'll delve deeper into the advantages and potential drawbacks of this innovative technology. One potential application that caught our attention is the use of Oculink with handheld PCs in desktop mode, allowing users to access powerful GPU capabilities on-the-go.

**Conclusion**

The emergence of oculink has opened up new avenues for PC performance enhancement, offering users a chance to experience unparalleled gaming and computing performance from their desktops. As we continue to explore this technology's potential, one thing is clear: oculink is set to revolutionize the way we interact with our PCs and external devices. Whether you're a gamer, content creator, or simply looking for ways to enhance your PC experience, Oculink is an exciting development that's sure to captivate your attention.

**Recommendations**

For those interested in experiencing the benefits of oculink, we recommend keeping an eye out for this technology as it becomes more widely available. As a potential addition to any Mini PC or handheld device, the M.2 to Oculink adapter is an affordable and easy-to-use solution that promises to unlock new performance possibilities. With its compact form factor and seamless connectivity capabilities, oculink has the potential to transform your computing experience.

**Conclusion**

Oculink is a game-changer for PC enthusiasts, offering a simple yet powerful way to enhance your desktop's performance capabilities. As we continue to explore this technology's potential, one thing is clear: oculink is set to revolutionize the way we interact with our PCs and external devices. With its compact form factor, seamless connectivity, and impressive performance results, oculink has truly earned a place as a major player in the world of PC performance enhancement.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign ta Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new GPD G1 external GPU now I'm really excited about this and they're touting it as the world's smallest graphics card expansion Dock and it could very well be the smallest on the market right now as making this video but there's a lot more built into this little unit here that I'm excited about besides the size of it and it really comes down to this egpu supporting two different protocols we've got true Thunderbolt 4 so we've got a real Thunderbolt 4 interface and on the channel I haven't been able to test a real Thunderbolt 4 dock we always go with Thunderbolt 3 connected over Thunderbolt 4 or usb4 and aside from that this is an all-in-one oculink egpu which comes in really handy if you have something like the GPD winmax 2 or if you're using oculink over an m.2 adapter with a Mini PC a full-size PC or even a handheld that has an extra m.2 slot so getting this thing out of the box as you can see it's super tiny and one thing that kind of threw me off was uh there was no power brick included and that's because it's an all-in-one unit you're just going to plug this right into the wall it's got its own power supply built into the unit itself it also has quite a lot of extra i o on it but I think one of the best things about this is It's utilizing a Radeon RX 7600m it is a mobile variant but I'll tell you what this thing definitely puts out some really good performance given the size of this unit and if you do buy one of these inside of the Box obviously you're going to get the G1 itself we also have our power cable it's a little three prong cable like I said power supply is built in here a 40 gig Thunderbolt 4 cable and since this is Thunderbolt 4 we can use a longer cable than we could with Thunderbolt 3 and of course we've got the oculine cable and this is really where it's at with this little e-gpu you're going to get the best performance over oculink and if you're not familiar with oculing basically this has been around for a long time it's been used in servers for a while and it brings pcie outside of the case that's exactly how they explain it the effective bandwidth is 63 gigs and when you compare it to usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 that's sitting at 40 gigs so we have a nice little jump there and it runs at X4 speeds instead of x3 like Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4. in my experience I've gotten much better performance over oculink and we'll do a little bit of testing in this video but real quick let's go ahead and take a look at the unit as you can see up front here we've got our dedicated power button we also have Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 right here and our oculink Port so these are right out of the front taking a look at the left hand side we've got a little bit of ventilation going on and over on the right we don't have any so this can actually stand vertically if you wanted it to actually looks pretty cool like that and around back we've got our power input three full-size USB 3.2 ports we also have a full size SD 4.0 reader two full size 1.4 a display ports and a full size HDMI 2.14 so this also adds a lot of extra i o to whatever we're going to be plugging it into and taking a look at the internal specs like I mentioned this is using the AMD Radeon RX 7600 MXT we've got 32 compute units 4096 stream processors 32 RT cores 8 gigabytes of gddr6 vram running at a 128 bit bus it's got a base clock 1500 megahertz a game clock of 2300 and a boost up to 2615 in this video we're going to be testing out the G1 on two different devices first up we've got the GPD win Max 2 this is the ryzen 7000 series version so we do have oculink built into the unit itself but you can add oculink to basically anything that has an extra m.2 slot but again this also works over usb4 so uh you can use it with many different devices and as you can see the cables that come included with the G1 are pretty long so you can basically set this up however you want a lot longer than older Thunderbolt 3 was and for this I'm going to be utilizing both of these ports but I'm not going to plug this into a usb4 port because then it would detect it as a usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 dock we don't want that but we do want to add power to the GPD win Max 2. next up we've got the oculink cable one end into the G1 other end into the win Max two we can kind of rearrange these cables so it's not all over the place and you could go with shorter cables if you want to but I'm glad they added these kind of extra long ones and before we power the device up we want to make sure that the G1 is on so we'll power that up then we can power up our device give it a few seconds to boot up and the only reason I have this usb4 plugged into the 3.2 port on the win Max 2 is just to keep that battery charged but once everything's booted up we've got both displays working the internal display and our external monitor and here it is so usually when I'm running an external GPU I like just showing up on one display so I'm going to go into my display settings and we're going to swap this all over to the second monitor our external monitor now we're still using the CPU and the win Max too and if you're not familiar with the 2023 version of this device it's got the ryzen 77840u eight Zen 4 cores 16 threads and we've also got the rdna3 based 780m igpu but since we're connected to this egpu we don't have to worry about that right now because we've got that RX 7600m and this definitely pairs up really nicely with that ryzen 7 7840u and I'll show you real quick if we open up gpu-z you can see that this is running at pcie EX4 4.0 instead of 3.0 like Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 would run at and it might not sound like a lot on paper but it does make a huge difference in real world gaming and the main thing that it kind of eliminates totally is that egpu stutter a lot of the higher end e-gpus that I've tested using a thunderbolt 3 dock over USB 4 just stutter all the way through some games are basically unplayable but with oculing I've been getting absolutely amazing performance I went ahead and tested Horizon zero Dawn's built-in Benchmark where at 1080p ultra settings and performance here is outstanding I mean just take a look at afterburner up in the top left hand corner got that 7600m paired up with that 7840u APU and this does make a really potent little combo I was surprised at how well this works just straight out of the box I haven't done any kind of tweaking and at the end of this Benchmark we had an average of 112 FPS a maximum of 207 and we had that minimum of 26 now this will require a little bit of tweaking but as you can see we are at Ultra quality 1080p with this setup next thing I wanted to test real quick with cyberpunk 2077 1080p High settings I got an average of 91 FPS on this little setup really impressed by the performance here and this is right on par with a lot of the benchmarks that I've seen online most gaming laptops with this GPU the 7600m are averaging around 96 FPS with cyberpunk 2077 at high settings I mean so we're right on par there using this over oculane getting some really great performance the next device I wanted to test this on was one of my favorite new Mini PCS this is the minisforum um 790 it's got the ryzen 9 7940 HS and it doesn't have oculing now you could add it over one of the m.2 slots internally but we're going to be using this over usb4 taking a look at gpu-z you can see that this is running at X4 3.0 instead of X4 4.0 like it would over oculine but this little PC does have a more powerful CPU than the win Max 2 does and we can actually run it at a higher TDP this is running at 65 Watts instead of 35 maximum on that GPD when Max 2 so it does offer better CPU performance but since we're connected over usb4 you'll see the difference in this benchmark Horizon zero dong using the same exact settings that we did with the win Max 2 except we're connected over USB 4 instead of oculing and remember we do have a more powerful CPU here so in theory we should be getting around the same or a little better performance but that's not the case because oculink does win over USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4. at the end of this we had an average of 80 FPS a maximum of 191 and a minimum of 17. if you remember on the win Max 2 we had an average of 112 with the exact same settings now I've got a lot more testing that I want to do on different devices while also compare directly on the win Max 2 oculink versus Thunderbolt 4 but if you've got the win Max 2 I would definitely use oculink I know it's going to perform better but so far this is definitely one of my favorite little e-gpu setups and I can't wait to get some more testing out of the way I've noticed that I'm getting better performance over usb4 than I did with a thunderbolt Dock and a more powerful GPU so since this is a true USB 4 dock I think it's going to give us better compatibility with usb4 devices and you can always pick up a little adapter like this on Amazon it's m.2 to oculink so if you've got an extra m.2 slot in your Mini PC or even a handheld you can put one of these puppies right in there and plug oculink directly into this device I'll definitely have a couple more videos coming up testing this method here because it could be a really great option for somebody with a Mini PC that just wants to add a little extra GPU power really glad to see somebody coming to Market with something like this love the form factor super small we've got that usb4 and oculink so we have several different ways to connect this to different devices awesome for many PCs with usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 and of course you could always set it up with your handheld in desktop mode as long as it has usb4 let me know in the comments below what you want to see this connected to we will be testing some Linux on certain devices I just kind of need to get everything together we'll be testing it over oculink and usb4 with different devices but if you're interested in learning a little more I would leave a few links in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this first look video at the GPD G1 if you've got any questions let me know and like always thanks for watchingforeign ta Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new GPD G1 external GPU now I'm really excited about this and they're touting it as the world's smallest graphics card expansion Dock and it could very well be the smallest on the market right now as making this video but there's a lot more built into this little unit here that I'm excited about besides the size of it and it really comes down to this egpu supporting two different protocols we've got true Thunderbolt 4 so we've got a real Thunderbolt 4 interface and on the channel I haven't been able to test a real Thunderbolt 4 dock we always go with Thunderbolt 3 connected over Thunderbolt 4 or usb4 and aside from that this is an all-in-one oculink egpu which comes in really handy if you have something like the GPD winmax 2 or if you're using oculink over an m.2 adapter with a Mini PC a full-size PC or even a handheld that has an extra m.2 slot so getting this thing out of the box as you can see it's super tiny and one thing that kind of threw me off was uh there was no power brick included and that's because it's an all-in-one unit you're just going to plug this right into the wall it's got its own power supply built into the unit itself it also has quite a lot of extra i o on it but I think one of the best things about this is It's utilizing a Radeon RX 7600m it is a mobile variant but I'll tell you what this thing definitely puts out some really good performance given the size of this unit and if you do buy one of these inside of the Box obviously you're going to get the G1 itself we also have our power cable it's a little three prong cable like I said power supply is built in here a 40 gig Thunderbolt 4 cable and since this is Thunderbolt 4 we can use a longer cable than we could with Thunderbolt 3 and of course we've got the oculine cable and this is really where it's at with this little e-gpu you're going to get the best performance over oculink and if you're not familiar with oculing basically this has been around for a long time it's been used in servers for a while and it brings pcie outside of the case that's exactly how they explain it the effective bandwidth is 63 gigs and when you compare it to usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 that's sitting at 40 gigs so we have a nice little jump there and it runs at X4 speeds instead of x3 like Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4. in my experience I've gotten much better performance over oculink and we'll do a little bit of testing in this video but real quick let's go ahead and take a look at the unit as you can see up front here we've got our dedicated power button we also have Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 right here and our oculink Port so these are right out of the front taking a look at the left hand side we've got a little bit of ventilation going on and over on the right we don't have any so this can actually stand vertically if you wanted it to actually looks pretty cool like that and around back we've got our power input three full-size USB 3.2 ports we also have a full size SD 4.0 reader two full size 1.4 a display ports and a full size HDMI 2.14 so this also adds a lot of extra i o to whatever we're going to be plugging it into and taking a look at the internal specs like I mentioned this is using the AMD Radeon RX 7600 MXT we've got 32 compute units 4096 stream processors 32 RT cores 8 gigabytes of gddr6 vram running at a 128 bit bus it's got a base clock 1500 megahertz a game clock of 2300 and a boost up to 2615 in this video we're going to be testing out the G1 on two different devices first up we've got the GPD win Max 2 this is the ryzen 7000 series version so we do have oculink built into the unit itself but you can add oculink to basically anything that has an extra m.2 slot but again this also works over usb4 so uh you can use it with many different devices and as you can see the cables that come included with the G1 are pretty long so you can basically set this up however you want a lot longer than older Thunderbolt 3 was and for this I'm going to be utilizing both of these ports but I'm not going to plug this into a usb4 port because then it would detect it as a usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 dock we don't want that but we do want to add power to the GPD win Max 2. next up we've got the oculink cable one end into the G1 other end into the win Max two we can kind of rearrange these cables so it's not all over the place and you could go with shorter cables if you want to but I'm glad they added these kind of extra long ones and before we power the device up we want to make sure that the G1 is on so we'll power that up then we can power up our device give it a few seconds to boot up and the only reason I have this usb4 plugged into the 3.2 port on the win Max 2 is just to keep that battery charged but once everything's booted up we've got both displays working the internal display and our external monitor and here it is so usually when I'm running an external GPU I like just showing up on one display so I'm going to go into my display settings and we're going to swap this all over to the second monitor our external monitor now we're still using the CPU and the win Max too and if you're not familiar with the 2023 version of this device it's got the ryzen 77840u eight Zen 4 cores 16 threads and we've also got the rdna3 based 780m igpu but since we're connected to this egpu we don't have to worry about that right now because we've got that RX 7600m and this definitely pairs up really nicely with that ryzen 7 7840u and I'll show you real quick if we open up gpu-z you can see that this is running at pcie EX4 4.0 instead of 3.0 like Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 would run at and it might not sound like a lot on paper but it does make a huge difference in real world gaming and the main thing that it kind of eliminates totally is that egpu stutter a lot of the higher end e-gpus that I've tested using a thunderbolt 3 dock over USB 4 just stutter all the way through some games are basically unplayable but with oculing I've been getting absolutely amazing performance I went ahead and tested Horizon zero Dawn's built-in Benchmark where at 1080p ultra settings and performance here is outstanding I mean just take a look at afterburner up in the top left hand corner got that 7600m paired up with that 7840u APU and this does make a really potent little combo I was surprised at how well this works just straight out of the box I haven't done any kind of tweaking and at the end of this Benchmark we had an average of 112 FPS a maximum of 207 and we had that minimum of 26 now this will require a little bit of tweaking but as you can see we are at Ultra quality 1080p with this setup next thing I wanted to test real quick with cyberpunk 2077 1080p High settings I got an average of 91 FPS on this little setup really impressed by the performance here and this is right on par with a lot of the benchmarks that I've seen online most gaming laptops with this GPU the 7600m are averaging around 96 FPS with cyberpunk 2077 at high settings I mean so we're right on par there using this over oculane getting some really great performance the next device I wanted to test this on was one of my favorite new Mini PCS this is the minisforum um 790 it's got the ryzen 9 7940 HS and it doesn't have oculing now you could add it over one of the m.2 slots internally but we're going to be using this over usb4 taking a look at gpu-z you can see that this is running at X4 3.0 instead of X4 4.0 like it would over oculine but this little PC does have a more powerful CPU than the win Max 2 does and we can actually run it at a higher TDP this is running at 65 Watts instead of 35 maximum on that GPD when Max 2 so it does offer better CPU performance but since we're connected over usb4 you'll see the difference in this benchmark Horizon zero dong using the same exact settings that we did with the win Max 2 except we're connected over USB 4 instead of oculing and remember we do have a more powerful CPU here so in theory we should be getting around the same or a little better performance but that's not the case because oculink does win over USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4. at the end of this we had an average of 80 FPS a maximum of 191 and a minimum of 17. if you remember on the win Max 2 we had an average of 112 with the exact same settings now I've got a lot more testing that I want to do on different devices while also compare directly on the win Max 2 oculink versus Thunderbolt 4 but if you've got the win Max 2 I would definitely use oculink I know it's going to perform better but so far this is definitely one of my favorite little e-gpu setups and I can't wait to get some more testing out of the way I've noticed that I'm getting better performance over usb4 than I did with a thunderbolt Dock and a more powerful GPU so since this is a true USB 4 dock I think it's going to give us better compatibility with usb4 devices and you can always pick up a little adapter like this on Amazon it's m.2 to oculink so if you've got an extra m.2 slot in your Mini PC or even a handheld you can put one of these puppies right in there and plug oculink directly into this device I'll definitely have a couple more videos coming up testing this method here because it could be a really great option for somebody with a Mini PC that just wants to add a little extra GPU power really glad to see somebody coming to Market with something like this love the form factor super small we've got that usb4 and oculink so we have several different ways to connect this to different devices awesome for many PCs with usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 and of course you could always set it up with your handheld in desktop mode as long as it has usb4 let me know in the comments below what you want to see this connected to we will be testing some Linux on certain devices I just kind of need to get everything together we'll be testing it over oculink and usb4 with different devices but if you're interested in learning a little more I would leave a few links in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this first look video at the GPD G1 if you've got any questions let me know and like always thanks for watchingforeign ta Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new GPD G1 external GPU now I'm really excited about this and they're touting it as the world's smallest graphics card expansion Dock and it could very well be the smallest on the market right now as making this video but there's a lot more built into this little unit here that I'm excited about besides the size of it and it really comes down to this egpu supporting two different protocols we've got true Thunderbolt 4 so we've got a real Thunderbolt 4 interface and on the channel I haven't been able to test a real Thunderbolt 4 dock we always go with Thunderbolt 3 connected over Thunderbolt 4 or usb4 and aside from that this is an all-in-one oculink egpu which comes in really handy if you have something like the GPD winmax 2 or if you're using oculink over an m.2 adapter with a Mini PC a full-size PC or even a handheld that has an extra m.2 slot so getting this thing out of the box as you can see it's super tiny and one thing that kind of threw me off was uh there was no power brick included and that's because it's an all-in-one unit you're just going to plug this right into the wall it's got its own power supply built into the unit itself it also has quite a lot of extra i o on it but I think one of the best things about this is It's utilizing a Radeon RX 7600m it is a mobile variant but I'll tell you what this thing definitely puts out some really good performance given the size of this unit and if you do buy one of these inside of the Box obviously you're going to get the G1 itself we also have our power cable it's a little three prong cable like I said power supply is built in here a 40 gig Thunderbolt 4 cable and since this is Thunderbolt 4 we can use a longer cable than we could with Thunderbolt 3 and of course we've got the oculine cable and this is really where it's at with this little e-gpu you're going to get the best performance over oculink and if you're not familiar with oculing basically this has been around for a long time it's been used in servers for a while and it brings pcie outside of the case that's exactly how they explain it the effective bandwidth is 63 gigs and when you compare it to usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 that's sitting at 40 gigs so we have a nice little jump there and it runs at X4 speeds instead of x3 like Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4. in my experience I've gotten much better performance over oculink and we'll do a little bit of testing in this video but real quick let's go ahead and take a look at the unit as you can see up front here we've got our dedicated power button we also have Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 right here and our oculink Port so these are right out of the front taking a look at the left hand side we've got a little bit of ventilation going on and over on the right we don't have any so this can actually stand vertically if you wanted it to actually looks pretty cool like that and around back we've got our power input three full-size USB 3.2 ports we also have a full size SD 4.0 reader two full size 1.4 a display ports and a full size HDMI 2.14 so this also adds a lot of extra i o to whatever we're going to be plugging it into and taking a look at the internal specs like I mentioned this is using the AMD Radeon RX 7600 MXT we've got 32 compute units 4096 stream processors 32 RT cores 8 gigabytes of gddr6 vram running at a 128 bit bus it's got a base clock 1500 megahertz a game clock of 2300 and a boost up to 2615 in this video we're going to be testing out the G1 on two different devices first up we've got the GPD win Max 2 this is the ryzen 7000 series version so we do have oculink built into the unit itself but you can add oculink to basically anything that has an extra m.2 slot but again this also works over usb4 so uh you can use it with many different devices and as you can see the cables that come included with the G1 are pretty long so you can basically set this up however you want a lot longer than older Thunderbolt 3 was and for this I'm going to be utilizing both of these ports but I'm not going to plug this into a usb4 port because then it would detect it as a usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 dock we don't want that but we do want to add power to the GPD win Max 2. next up we've got the oculink cable one end into the G1 other end into the win Max two we can kind of rearrange these cables so it's not all over the place and you could go with shorter cables if you want to but I'm glad they added these kind of extra long ones and before we power the device up we want to make sure that the G1 is on so we'll power that up then we can power up our device give it a few seconds to boot up and the only reason I have this usb4 plugged into the 3.2 port on the win Max 2 is just to keep that battery charged but once everything's booted up we've got both displays working the internal display and our external monitor and here it is so usually when I'm running an external GPU I like just showing up on one display so I'm going to go into my display settings and we're going to swap this all over to the second monitor our external monitor now we're still using the CPU and the win Max too and if you're not familiar with the 2023 version of this device it's got the ryzen 77840u eight Zen 4 cores 16 threads and we've also got the rdna3 based 780m igpu but since we're connected to this egpu we don't have to worry about that right now because we've got that RX 7600m and this definitely pairs up really nicely with that ryzen 7 7840u and I'll show you real quick if we open up gpu-z you can see that this is running at pcie EX4 4.0 instead of 3.0 like Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4 would run at and it might not sound like a lot on paper but it does make a huge difference in real world gaming and the main thing that it kind of eliminates totally is that egpu stutter a lot of the higher end e-gpus that I've tested using a thunderbolt 3 dock over USB 4 just stutter all the way through some games are basically unplayable but with oculing I've been getting absolutely amazing performance I went ahead and tested Horizon zero Dawn's built-in Benchmark where at 1080p ultra settings and performance here is outstanding I mean just take a look at afterburner up in the top left hand corner got that 7600m paired up with that 7840u APU and this does make a really potent little combo I was surprised at how well this works just straight out of the box I haven't done any kind of tweaking and at the end of this Benchmark we had an average of 112 FPS a maximum of 207 and we had that minimum of 26 now this will require a little bit of tweaking but as you can see we are at Ultra quality 1080p with this setup next thing I wanted to test real quick with cyberpunk 2077 1080p High settings I got an average of 91 FPS on this little setup really impressed by the performance here and this is right on par with a lot of the benchmarks that I've seen online most gaming laptops with this GPU the 7600m are averaging around 96 FPS with cyberpunk 2077 at high settings I mean so we're right on par there using this over oculane getting some really great performance the next device I wanted to test this on was one of my favorite new Mini PCS this is the minisforum um 790 it's got the ryzen 9 7940 HS and it doesn't have oculing now you could add it over one of the m.2 slots internally but we're going to be using this over usb4 taking a look at gpu-z you can see that this is running at X4 3.0 instead of X4 4.0 like it would over oculine but this little PC does have a more powerful CPU than the win Max 2 does and we can actually run it at a higher TDP this is running at 65 Watts instead of 35 maximum on that GPD when Max 2 so it does offer better CPU performance but since we're connected over usb4 you'll see the difference in this benchmark Horizon zero dong using the same exact settings that we did with the win Max 2 except we're connected over USB 4 instead of oculing and remember we do have a more powerful CPU here so in theory we should be getting around the same or a little better performance but that's not the case because oculink does win over USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4. at the end of this we had an average of 80 FPS a maximum of 191 and a minimum of 17. if you remember on the win Max 2 we had an average of 112 with the exact same settings now I've got a lot more testing that I want to do on different devices while also compare directly on the win Max 2 oculink versus Thunderbolt 4 but if you've got the win Max 2 I would definitely use oculink I know it's going to perform better but so far this is definitely one of my favorite little e-gpu setups and I can't wait to get some more testing out of the way I've noticed that I'm getting better performance over usb4 than I did with a thunderbolt Dock and a more powerful GPU so since this is a true USB 4 dock I think it's going to give us better compatibility with usb4 devices and you can always pick up a little adapter like this on Amazon it's m.2 to oculink so if you've got an extra m.2 slot in your Mini PC or even a handheld you can put one of these puppies right in there and plug oculink directly into this device I'll definitely have a couple more videos coming up testing this method here because it could be a really great option for somebody with a Mini PC that just wants to add a little extra GPU power really glad to see somebody coming to Market with something like this love the form factor super small we've got that usb4 and oculink so we have several different ways to connect this to different devices awesome for many PCs with usb4 or Thunderbolt 4 and of course you could always set it up with your handheld in desktop mode as long as it has usb4 let me know in the comments below what you want to see this connected to we will be testing some Linux on certain devices I just kind of need to get everything together we'll be testing it over oculink and usb4 with different devices but if you're interested in learning a little more I would leave a few links in the description but that's going to wrap it up for this first look video at the GPD G1 if you've got any questions let me know and like always thanks for watching\n"