One of the most interesting parts of Asus’ pre-CES 2025 presentation was the latest version of its ROG XG Mobile, a little brick that’s supposed to enhance your laptop with discrete GPU muscle.

Now, this is a big one – from the ROG Ally community, we get a fully open-source eGPU adapter for the ROG Ally, built by reverse-engineering the proprietary and overpriced eGPU sold by Asus.

This smoky black translucent box isn’t a gaming PC — instead, it might be the most powerful single-cable portable docking station ever conceived. When you plug your laptop or handheld into the ...

further restricting its use outside of Asus’ ecosystem. With the introduction of Thunderbolt 5, the latest XG Mobile eGPU provides up to 80Gbps of data transfer, which is a significant jump over ...

That includes several laptop variants of the RTX 50 series lineup, which ASUS has taken the liberty of porting into eGPU form. Specifically, ASUS is readying its XG Mobile for release on February ...