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At times, you truly don’t need to overhaul the concept when crafting a flashy new item. This appears to be Aokzoe’s strategy with its upcoming A1 X handheld gaming PC, which closely resembles its existing A1 Pro—simply with a larger battery and an impressive AMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 370 chip.
There’s not a plethora of specifics regarding the new handheld in the teaser post on X, but the A1 X will feature a fully-fledged Strix Point APU. This means you’ll obtain 12 CPU cores (4x Zen 5, 8x Zen 5c) and 16 RDNA 3.5 compute units for graphics. In comparison to the Ryzen 7 7840U in the A1 Pro, it’s a notable enhancement in hardware.
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This chip boasts eight Zen 4 CPU cores and 12 RDNA 3 compute units, allowing for potentially up to a 33% enhancement in gaming performance on the A1 X, relative to the A1 Pro. I say potentially since it will depend on the power and clock settings Aokzoe chooses, and there’s yet to be any information on that.
So, what’s improved? For one, the display—it remains at 8 inches (which is sufficiently large for a portable device) and although the resolution is unspecified, it has a refresh rate of 120 Hz and supports VRR (variable refresh rate). The A1 Pro is equipped with a 1200p 60 Hz panel, so even if the resolution remains the same, it should provide a significantly better viewing experience for extended periods.
Whether you will truly enjoy hours of gaming will ultimately depend on the battery, and Aokzoe has chosen to integrate a 72.5 Wh cell into the A1 X. The A1 Pro is powered by a 65 Wh battery, constituting only a 17% boost in capacity, but considering it managed over two hours of Elden Ring gameplay at its 15 W mode, you can expect a similar duration with the A1 X.
The standard edition of the Aokzoe A1 Pro offers an impressive 32 GB of LDDDR5x-7400, and I sincerely hope the A1 X retains the same RAM. Since there is no dedicated VRAM for the Ryzen’s GPU, the greater the memory, the more stable and better functioning a handheld will be.
You can observe this with the Asus ROG Ally X, which outperforms the regular ROG Ally, attributed to having 24 GB of memory (16 GB in the non-X Ally), despite both featuring the same processor.
What we genuinely expect from Aokzoe regarding the A1 X is software excellence. The system in the A1 Pro is significantly clumsier than Asus Armory Crate, found in the ROG Ally, and it doesn’t compare to SteamOS. Windows 11 is not particularly suited for handheld consoles and relies extensively on the vendor’s software to mitigate its desktop-oriented characteristics.
The one certainty about the Aokzoe A1 X is that it will almost definitely not be affordable, not by any means. The A1 Pro is $910 at Amazon, thus if the A1 X offers the same RAM and a 1 TB SSD, I expect it to be launched at over $1,000 or even higher.
No matter the launch price, if we manage to acquire one for review, we’ll be sure to inform you if it’s worth every penny or not.
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