MXM RTX 2080. Is mobile ray tracing worth it?

[iBPhantom]

I saw a listing for a Clevo RTX 2080 on Ebay for $1,900 and you can also get the heat sink and screws to fit for an extra $100.

I have a Zotac mini that uses an MXM card, but it hardly get enough power and cooling as is for the 2070 in it.

My question is, is ray tracing even worth it for laptop or mini pc gamers?

To me, I feel like even with the correct cooling to keep the beast quenched, it would still not perform as efficient and you would be going out of your way for a mobile card that could easily be an full external thunderbolt card in the mindset of mobility type systems.

Thoughts?

[SenKa]

I would say it's worth it so long as you can keep it cooled.

 

Thunderbolt 3 is limited to 4 lanes at PCI-E 3.0. That would bottleneck any card above the class of an RX580/GTX1070.

[Theguywhobea]

24 minutes ago, iBPhantom said:

I saw a listing for a Clevo RTX 2080 on Ebay for $1,900 and you can also get the heat sink and screws to fit for an extra $100.

I have a Zotac mini that uses an MXM card, but it hardly get enough power and cooling as is for the 2070 in it.

My question is, is ray tracing even worth it for laptop or mini pc gamers?

To me, I feel like even with the correct cooling to keep the beast quenched, it would still not perform as efficient and you would be going out of your way for a mobile card that could easily be an full external thunderbolt card in the mindset of mobility type systems.

Thoughts?

Is spending $2K on something that is likely not officially supported really worth it though? Do you have something that you really need the extra performance and ray tracing for?

[XR6]

Unless you need the extra performance, it just isn't worth it.