Zotac previews the products that will be seen at CES 2017

Robert Sole 30 December, 2016

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Zotac will present a dock for external graphics cards, a new ZBox and a smaller version of Zotac at CES 2017.

The Zotac company will present a new series of new products during CES 2017. According to the announcement, a Zotac External Graphics Dock, a new Zotac miniPC and an NVIDIA GTX 1080 Mini, designed for compact computers, will be seen. What has caught our attention the most is the Zotac Dock, which is designed for high-performance graphics cards and connects to the computer through Thunderbolt 3.

Zotac External Graphics Dock

The first device is an external chassis for graphics cards, as we have mentioned, that would be connected via Thunderbolt 3, presumably with a USB 3.1 Type-C connector, so that we can update our computers or laptops with an external graphics without major problems. Logically, our laptop or desktop computer should have a connector of these characteristics for it to work.

The company knows that this Dock is not suitable for everyone and would not be a final version of the market. The intention of Zotac is to offer a product compatible with as many equipment and graphics as possible, something like the Razer Core and ASUS XG Station 2 solutions. This product would be a good solution for those who want to improve the performance of their equipment without changing it.

Not all the specifications have been given, but if we know that it will have a single PCIe x16 3.0 slot, it will have three USB 3.0 ports, a USB 3.0 port for fast charging and the USB Type-C port with Thunderbolt 3 that we have already mentioned. We do not know if it will come with a graphics card or not and which graphics cards will be compatible, since the dimensions of this product have not been given, although we do know that it will have an internal 400W power supply.

ZBox C Series miniPC

One of the novelties is the update of its compact equipment. This equipment has a USB Type-C connector, which would suggest that in addition to being powered from the transformer, if we connect it with the upper Dock, it could be powered directly from it. This team will arrive with Intel Kaby Lake processors and will have passive dissipation, although it has not been specified which processor models they will support. Not only will they be compatible with Thunderbolt 3, they will also have Intel vPRO, UNITE and AMT technologies.

Zotac GTX 1080 Mini

They have also not left a compact version of the GTX 1080. This mini version would be ideal for compact equipment and according to speculation, it could be integrated into the external Dock, so it is not clear if this GPU will be sold separately or will be a pack with the external graphics system using Thunderbolt 3 that they have announced. This graph has 2560 CUDA Cores, working at a frequency of 1620MHz and can reach 1759MHz in Boost mode. It will have 8GB of GDDR5 memory and according to Zotac it is the smallest GTX 1080 in the world. We do not know anything about price and availability, as all data for all products will be released at CES in Las Vegas.