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A little over 1.5 years ago I wrote about Asus launching an external graphics card for laptop consumers. Remotely locating the hot and power hungry GPU to a desktop located platform would bring laptops up to speed with desktops in the one department they are seriously lacking. Current performance GPUs easily chew through 75 to 125 watts which is easily double the power consumption of your average laptop computer. AMD is hoping to tap into the mobile market with an external graphics card with a custom graphical port permitting consumers to render images on both the internal laptop screen or up to 4 external displays.

The concept images below look to be practical and I see a decent market for such devices if the interface can be standardized. Rather than having vendor specific connections, a standard interface like a Mobile PCI Express port should be utilized that’ll extend the PCIe lanes from the laptops motherboard to external devices. By having the port standardized it would also enable consumers to upgrade laptops and upgrade their graphic cards without having to buy into another platform if they switch vendors. I hope AMD takes this concept forward and works with Intel and Nvidia in creating an industry standard.

Source: Amd vs Intel