External GPUs are becoming a more common item now (like the weirdly named Alienware box above), so since Nintendo is partnering with NVIDIA, I could see a solution like proposed above basically just running an SLI bridge between a dock GPU and the tablet GPU. The technology exists, the biggest question is just how stable it would be.
SLI (or GPU scaling in general) isn't exactly known to be the most reliable technology. On top of that, scaling 1080>4K is a huge leap in processing power and would probably require more than just a duplicated GPU (even with 80-90% scaling transference) unless the Tablet GPU is already quite powerful. Asymmetrical SLI could be a possibility, but that's even less stable than identical GPU SLI.
Best stable scenario would be the dock contains a stripped down desktop GPU and the tablet defers video processing to the dock.
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