 Hey guys, Thundie here and with me I have the Surface Pro 8 and we're taking a second look at this device after the updates or actually after eight months and before I do that I want to give a big shout out to our sponsor of this video Best Buy where you can pick up a device like the Surface Pro 8 especially a configuration that will be priced right under a thousand bucks that is of course with 8 gigs of RAM 250 gigabytes of storage and of course you can pick up the Surface keyboard with the Surface Pen that looks absolutely gorgeous great place to do that definitely use the links down below but let's go ahead and talk about the Surface Pro 8 so this device is look I've enjoyed it I've been using it for about eight months now this is kind of my like my day to day laptop slash tablet I take with me everywhere because if I'm going from the office home I use the Surface quite a bit now of course this is all about gaming on the Surface Pro 8 and I have to say though this is an interesting part we did gaming before and in that video definitely go check out the full video we were limited to some of our gaming performance now the Surface Pro 8 comes within the 11 gen processor I do have two Surface Pro 8's I do have of course a core i5 and I also have a core i7 here and you can go with the configuration of 8 16 gigabytes of RAM now when I've used my Surface Pro 8 in my first video I was able to play Shadow of the Tomb Raider at its lowest settings 720p and 1080 doing about 40 frames per second that was all nice and dandy that's cool right but I couldn't actually play most of the games I wanted to play so we tried Doom Eternal didn't play well and you can check it out all in that video now this time though we're doing something a little bit different because if you've asked me this how does it work with an external eGPU and I have one right here all in silver looks pretty nice and I do have an RTX 3080 connected inside and this changed everything completely all you need of course is a single Thunderbolt 3 cable and you're connected with either one of the Thunderbolt ports on your Surface Pro 8 to your eGPU and you're good to go now this is where things became interesting of course you just had to download your g4 strivers and boom you're ready to actually start gaming there's nothing it's a plug-and-play system so the very first game I went back to of course was Shadow of the Tomb Raider and instead of me playing at low settings I played at highest settings and I played at the resolution of the display itself and I got 60 frames per second it ran smooth it looks nice in game while playing it looks really nice and smooth itself which is great and as you can see the frame rate average was between 134 to 60 frames so there is a nice range there depending on where you are in the game but it can definitely play the game well with that eGPU now you're going okay that's a really big nice bump what about other games were you able to play Doom Eternal yes I was now Doom Eternal I was able to get roughly around 75 frames per second on average and it ran really smooth it was able to play quite well on this device especially connected to the eGPU which was also a great experience as well so I definitely like that and I like that the performance was also there with this we also played Fortnite as well and with Fortnite we're getting a solid 60 frames per second it looked like it was high just look like it was just capped at 60 but I did like the fact that it looks looked really great and also ran pretty smooth as well didn't encounter anyone we need to fight except one guy who I killed but again I played Fortnite in a minute so don't count me on that one right and of course I played some Call of Duty Warzone which is a game I usually play and Warzone I could not play on this device initially but with the eGPU this actually took things to a very different level and allowed me to play this game at roughly around 70 frames per second so that was also great now playing shooters like that on this keyboard you would think it's kind of weird but it actually works out well the keyboard does a really good job you can actually feel you know the the keys well the key travels are nice so while you're actually playing shooters like these it actually works out pretty well audio of course is great as you would expect which you've seen in the other video but I have to say though this is a great way to expand the way you look at what the Surface Pro 8 can do some of you ask here what how does this affect battery life heat and performance yes the system does run hot kind of a little bit here at the back of the system itself because everything is this is essentially tablet it's actually gaming but the performance is great to see that look I can have an eGPU at home I can put it down and I can just take this with me close it up and boom I'm on the go I get about 12 hours battery life just using this device which is actually great Microsoft performance is about 16 to 17 but 12 is still nice and solid and with that eGPU that actually takes gaming to the next level now I would just say this I fully recommend this device and I think you guys should go pick it up if you're looking for something that's portable you can travel with anywhere and you can get different variants of it so definitely use our links down below from Best Buy to pick it up if you have any questions or any comments let me know if there's anything else you want to see or if you want to see gaming more on tablets leave us a like down below it's Dundee saying thank you and I always enjoy entertainment