Gigabyte Debuts Radeon RX 580 Powered External Graphics Gaming Box

by Brandon Hill — Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 02:35 PM EDT

Gigabyte has introduced a new entry in the growing external GPU enclosure sector. The company's new Radeon RX 580 Gaming Box of course includes its namesake graphics card inside the enclosure and connects to your PC with via a Thunderbolt 3 connection.

The AMD Radeon RX 580 lurking inside the box is clocked at 1257MHz (default), 1,340MHz in Gaming Mode, and maxes out at 1,355MHz in OC Mode. The 8GB of GDDR5 memory is locked in at a frequency of 8GHz. Fueling the GPU is a 450W 80 Plus Gold certified power supply unit, and it has its own custom heatsink attached along with a massive fan to keep things cool during intense gaming sessions (or for mining duty, if you so choose).

On the back of the enclosure, you'll find three DisplayPort 1.4 pots, a single HDMI port and the Thunderbolt 3.0 port for connecting to your PC (providing 40Gbps of bandwidth). There are also four USB ports on the back (three USB 3.0, and one USB 3.1 with Quick Charge 3 support). And given that it caters to gamers, the RX 580 Gaming Box also includes RGP lighting effects via RGB Fusion with 16.7 million customizable colors.

The RX 580 Gaming Box measures 211mm x 96mm x 162mm (L x W x W), and includes the carrying case, power cord, Thunderbolt 3 cable, manual and driver CD in the box. One thing that you won't find, however, is AORUS branding which is featured prominently on the NVIDIA versions of Gigabyte's external graphic enclosures (like the AORUS GTX 1080 Gaming Box).

The absence is rather curious considering that Gigabyte sells an AORUS Radeon RX 580 8G standalone graphics card (the same card that's included in this the RX 580 Gaming Box). Conspiracy theorists might think that this could be NVIDIA's doing, and that Gigabyte is now a member of the GeForce Partner Program...

There is no word on pricing or availability at this time for the Gigabyte RX 580 Gaming Box.

Tags: AMD, Gigabyte, (nasdaq:amd), radeon rx 580, rx 580 gaming box

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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