RTX 2080 Ti on Razer Core X Terrible Performance!

[JustinCromwell]

Hey everybody, new member here. I have an Asus ROG GU501GM laptop with a core i7 8750H, 32 GB of 2666MHz Corsair Vengeance DDR4, 1TB M.2, 1TB SSD, and onboard intel 630/gtx 1060 6GB graphics. Im overseas currently for deployment in the military so I was looking for a simple way to make my GPU situation a little better, without having access to a local Best Buy or Micro Center. I got myself a Razer Core X eGPU over thunderbolt 3, as well as a RTX 2080 TI FE. My laptop has x4 lanes of PCIe, and I disabled the onboard GTX 1060, but I still seem to be getting less performance out of the RTX than I did with the cruddy 1060. My BIOS is updated, etc. I know TB3 is a bottleneck and I should expect a 15% loss of performance, but for it to perform less than a GTX 1060 is rediculous and doesnt seem inline with all of the benchmarks on youtube. I am also outputting to an external 144Hz Asus VG278Q monitor from the RTX. Any insight? I know the 2080 Ti is overkill, but once Im back stateside next year I plan on throwing it in a new build I will be doing. Thanks for your time. 

[suchamoneypit]

18 minutes ago, JustinCromwell said:

Hey everybody, new member here. I have an Asus ROG GU501GM laptop with a core i7 8750H, 32 GB of 2666MHz Corsair Vengeance DDR4, 1TB M.2, 1TB SSD, and onboard intel 630/gtx 1060 6GB graphics. Im overseas currently for deployment in the military so I was looking for a simple way to make my GPU situation a little better, without having access to a local Best Buy or Micro Center. I got myself a Razer Core X eGPU over thunderbolt 3, as well as a RTX 2080 TI FE. My laptop has x4 lanes of PCIe, and I disabled the onboard GTX 1060, but I still seem to be getting less performance out of the RTX than I did with the cruddy 1060. My BIOS is updated, etc. I know TB3 is a bottleneck and I should expect a 15% loss of performance, but for it to perform less than a GTX 1060 is rediculous and doesnt seem inline with all of the benchmarks on youtube. I am also outputting to an external 144Hz Asus VG278Q monitor from the RTX. Any insight? I know the 2080 Ti is overkill, but once Im back stateside next year I plan on throwing it in a new build I will be doing. Thanks for your time. 

Whats CPU usage like when gaming with the 2080ti?

[JustinCromwell]

The i7 8750H handles games very well. It is never at 100% usage, and will top out at 80c running the most intensive games. 

[Turtle Rig]

39 minutes ago, JustinCromwell said:

Hey everybody, new member here. I have an Asus ROG GU501GM laptop with a core i7 8750H, 32 GB of 2666MHz Corsair Vengeance DDR4, 1TB M.2, 1TB SSD, and onboard intel 630/gtx 1060 6GB graphics. Im overseas currently for deployment in the military so I was looking for a simple way to make my GPU situation a little better, without having access to a local Best Buy or Micro Center. I got myself a Razer Core X eGPU over thunderbolt 3, as well as a RTX 2080 TI FE. My laptop has x4 lanes of PCIe, and I disabled the onboard GTX 1060, but I still seem to be getting less performance out of the RTX than I did with the cruddy 1060. My BIOS is updated, etc. I know TB3 is a bottleneck and I should expect a 15% loss of performance, but for it to perform less than a GTX 1060 is rediculous and doesnt seem inline with all of the benchmarks on youtube. I am also outputting to an external 144Hz Asus VG278Q monitor from the RTX. Any insight? I know the 2080 Ti is overkill, but once Im back stateside next year I plan on throwing it in a new build I will be doing. Thanks for your time. 

This is easy.  Remove the 1060, disable on board graphics.  Now run DDU "Display Driver Uninstaller" from safe mode.  clean and restart, then your back up normal mode now install the latest nVidia WHQL drivers and let us know.

[JustinCromwell]

1 hour ago, Turtle Rig said:

This is easy.  Remove the 1060, disable on board graphics.  Now run DDU "Display Driver Uninstaller" from safe mode.  clean and restart, then your back up normal mode now install the latest nVidia WHQL drivers and let us know.

So i disabled the 1060 and used DDU to wipe the intel driver. Still underwhelming performance in Rise of the Tomb Raider (max settings, besides AA set to x8) and COD MW remastered, max settings. Both games fluctuate between 40-60 FPS. With just my GTX 1060 I was seeing consistent 60 FPS. Lows would be in the 50's. Im just confused since the RTX is so much faster than the 1060, even with the TB3 limitation. 

[JustinCromwell]

Anybody else have any thoughts before I take my 2080 TI/ Core X and mail it home out of frustration?

[skeeter36]

Did you do all of the above steps? Mainly disabling the intel graphics?

[JustinCromwell]

10 hours ago, skeeter36 said:

Did you do all of the above steps? Mainly disabling the intel graphics?

In the post above my last I described my results. I used DDU for both intel and DGPU drivers and windows just goes ahead and re-downloads their drivers after a short while automatically.