EGPU through thunderbolt 3

[thewipyk]

Hello guys!
I'm planning to buy my dream laptop, the HP elitebook x360 G2, with the core i5 7500u. I'm looking forward buying an GPU dock for it as well, like an ASUS STRIX ROG station 2, or the Razer core. Now I know, there is a bottleneck in both the Thunderbolt 3 speeds and the "u" serie processor. I'm planning to buy a GTX 970 to handle my rendering and gaming needs (Currently working on a project in UE4). What do you guys think? Will it work? Obviouly it needs tweaking and bios stuff. According to my calculations, it should get along just fine. A 970 is still a powerfull card, but not an overkill like a 980 or 1080, so in theory no bottleneck should occour. I'm going to use the laptop  docked with keyboard and monitor.

Thans in advance

[en1gMATIC]

should work but why?

just get a laptop with a better gpu

[Davidwr80]

To answer your question, yes it should work. But let me share a few things with you: The thunderbolt "Bottleneck" will almost always occur, no matter wich card you use, because of its bandwidth constraints. So, even if you use a slower card, the performance percentage it will loose will still be about the same compared to a desktop as if you were using a faster card. And, on many ultrabooks, or "U" series notebooks, thunderbolt 3 is only capable of 20 Gbit rather than 40, wich will slow down your GPU even more.The second think you should consider, is that for the price of a razer core/or the ROG station 2 + a GPU you will spend almost as much money as if you were to build a separate desktop that you could use aside from your laptop. If you still think that this is the best solution for your situation, then please, go ahead