They’ve already gave you answer for how FSR works so I’ll try to help with the utilization problem.

My guess is that, since you’re pretty much lowering the resolution, your GPU would be able to render more frames but the CPU can’t keep up.

In a situazione like this the better option would be to either run at native or maybe turn on VSR, set the resolution to 4K and set the game to render at 4K with FSR on performance, that way you’ll emulate Nvidia’s DLAA that uses the upscaler as anti aliasing.

All this assuming the framerate is not limited by something like Vsync.

Laptop are not handhelds. No laptop can give the handheld experience and the eGPU is meant to make the handheld usable at higher resolution.

Still, like i’ve been saying for the GPD G1, the only usecase where these eGPUs make sense is if you need the extreme portability.

Otherwise for 600$ your better getting a 40$ oculink to pcie adapter, a 50$ PSU and a 7800XT/4070 for 500/520$.

I think the really interesting thing is that OneX is also jumping on the Oculink train (they kinda had to after GPD and Aya did).

Hopefully Valve will also get on next cache they get.

Since it’s not on the list and it should launch relatively soon i’d guess it’s Hawk Point.