ASUS Teases World’s Most Powerful Gaming Tablet, the ROG Flow Z13

[Peter_Brosdahl]

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ASUS has shared a teaser for the ROG Flow Z13, the world’s most powerful gaming tablet. Some are calling it a Surface killer; it resembles the Microsoft tablet but supports external GPUs. It is believed to feature a AMD Ryzen 6000 series Rembrandt processor with Zen 3+ and RDNA 2 architecture.



The world’s most powerful gaming tablet is coming to #CES2022.Full reveal at the #CES2022ROG virtual launch event, January 4, 11AM PST. https://t.co/tVAhAej7zY#TheRiseOfGamers pic.twitter.com/4bRhKMqMUQ— ROG Global (@ASUS_ROG)...

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[Brian_B]

I can't really understand why this is a thing. There are so many reasons this doesn't make sense.

 

[Dogsofjune]

I'll wait for my Steam Deck.

 

[hubaduba]

Zen 3+ with RDNA2, great. External GPU connection? Maybe. There no mention of Thunderbolt, so how does it plug in?

 

[Brian_B]

Zen 3+ with RDNA2, great. External GPU connection? Maybe. There no mention of Thunderbolt, so how does it plug in?

Yeah TB would be the obvious method (and I'm actually surprised a lot of other laptops/SFF stuff doesn't use this). Just looking you'd not be able to tell, as it's USB-C interface, but you would think they would be talking about it in the literature.

Unless they are doing their own proprietary thing. Which would be beyond stupid, but I already think this product is fairly stupid, so idk....

 

[LeRoy_Blanchard]

Well based on the pictures it appears to be a proprietary connector on the proprietary housing for the GPU. Which probably isn't ALL that bad, assuming the housing uses standardized PCI-e 16x slot w/ standardized GPU power connectors so you can swap in whatever GPU you want (that will physically fit)

If that's the case, then that'd could be a pretty powerful setup that ultra portable.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Zen 3+ with RDNA2, great. External GPU connection? Maybe. There no mention of Thunderbolt, so how does it plug in?

It does have TB but the GPU plugs in through a proprietary port. It's in the pictures.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I love the sense of humor from whoever approved the promo image. Screw can it play Crysis. Can it play Space Invaders?