The prominent Chinese brand AOOSTAR has unveiled its XG lineup of RDNA 3-based eGPUs. Consisting of the XG76 and the XG76 XT, the eGPUs are powered by the AMD Radeon RX 7600M with 28 CUs and the desktop-class RX 7600 XT with 32 CUs respectively, both with a 150 W TDP. These GPUs are plenty performant, and are likely to offer respectable 1080p gaming performance.

Similar to offerings from competitors such as GPD and Ayaneo, the XG lineup features dock functionality as well. Both the variants sport USB4 connectivity with up to 100 W of power delivery. Display output is taken care of by the dual DisplayPort 2.0 ports, and a single HDMI 2.1 port. The system also rocks OCuLink support, allowing for a significantly lower performance hit when compared to Thunderbolt 4 or USB4.

BoostR is an Indiegogo crowdfunded project that seeks to integrate a multi-functional I/O dock with an external GPU. It's a rather brilliant idea—the dock draws connectivity from a USB4 (40 Gbps) connection, which it uses to connect an AMD Radeon RX 7600M GPU, an M.2-2280 NVMe SSD slot, a 1 GbE networking interface, an SD 4.0 card reader, and a bunch of USB 3.2 downstream ports.

The device comes with a power brick, and by default draws 100 W for all its functions, including the eGPU. You can boost the power limit to 120 W, which should improve the GPU's performance. The GPU puts out a couple of HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.0 connectors. BoostR was briefly available on Indiegogo at an early-bird price of $499, at which it would undercut the Ayaneo OneXGPU, a similar contraption of an eGPU+M.2+port dock that's priced at $699. One area where the BoostR has an edge over the OneXGPU is its 120 W mode that give the GPU improved boost frequency residency. It remains to be seen what the regular price of BoostR will be, but the company is offering a 5% discount on the final price if you sign up for their newsletter.

AMD today released its first mobile discrete GPUs based on its latest RDNA3 graphics architecture, the Radeon RX 7600M series, and the RX 7600S series. Although based on the latest architecture, AMD decided to built these GPUs on monolithic 6 nm dies, along with many of the power-management features incorporated from Ryzen 6000-series "Rembrandt" processors. The unnamed silicon these GPUs are based on physically features 32 RDNA3 compute units (2,048 stream processors), along with the updated dual instruction-issue rate SIMD components, 2nd generation Ray Accelerators, and AI acceleration. The silicon also features a 128-bit GDDR6 memory interface, supporting speeds of up to 18 Gbps.

The Ryzen 7600M series consists of the top RX 7600M XT with 32 CU, and the slightly lower RX 7600M with 28 CU. Both come with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across the chip's 128-bit memory interface. The RX 7600M XT uses 18 Gbps memory clocks, while the RX 7600M uses 16 Gbps. The RX 7600M XT has a power band of 75 W to 120 W, while the RX 7600M needs 50 W to 90 W. The RX 7700S and RX 7600S have the same core-configurations as the RX 7600M XT and RX 7600M, respectively, but lower power draw (up to 100 W for the RX 7700S, and up to 75 W for the RX 7600S). Both GPUs feature updated display- and media-acceleration engines, with support for QHD+ displays up to 240 Hz. AMD claims that the RX 7600M XT beats the performance of desktop NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB.