Portable and handheld PC stalwart GPD at this time teased the primary AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395-powered handheld. Moreover, in a brief video clip shared on X, we get to see the system in motion, with somebody enjoying Black Myth: Wukong. We don’t get a abstract chart accompanying the video, however this handheld seems to run this standard sport at between 170 and 212 fps at some stage in the gameplay clip.
AMD’s ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ chips debuted at CES 2025, at the beginning of the yr, with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 being the halo product of the household. Its mix of RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores – plus radical new reminiscence tech, providing as much as 256 GB/s bandwidth. It’s a pure for a premium handheld, however we’ve solely seen rumors and options of such handhelds within the making till now.
GPD’s “breaking news” publish doesn’t reveal quite a bit concerning the GPD WIN 5 it’s teasing. However, we are able to see a couple of attention-grabbing issues immediately. The pocketable PCs specialist has chosen to indicate a couple of key stats overlaid on the gaming video: processor temperature, iGPU clock velocity, CPU energy consumption, and frames per second efficiency.
Watching these stats, we notice that, throughout the transient 20s or so we get to see, the processor hovers across the 65 levels C area, which appears to be like good for a handheld. At the identical time, the ‘CPU Power’ varies between 55W and 58W. The iGPU, the Radeon 8060S, additionally maintains a clock velocity of round 2.5 GHz. As per our intro, Black Myth: Wukong runs from between round 170 and 212fps at some stage in the clip. Admittedly, there are loads of stats and settings lacking from our view, just like the graphics high quality settings used.
GPD WIN 5 controls had been hidden within the shadows
After grabbing the highest quality video we might from the supply and twiddling with ranges in Photoshop, the joyvpad and buttons structure of the GPD WIN5 comes into view.
There aren’t any massive surprises within the buttons, pads, and sticks plucked from the darkness of the promo video. On the left, it appears to be like like there’s a thumb stick on the prime, with a D-pad under, then three buttons and what appears to be like like a speaker grille.
To the suitable, under the everyday quad motion button diamond, is one other thumb stick. Next to a few different buttons, decrease down on the suitable, there additionally is perhaps a tiny touchpad, identical to the one on the Lenovo Legion GO S, for instance.
The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and its brethren have beforehand popped up in tablets and mini PCs. Sadly, machines powered by this household of processors typically include excessive, even prohibitive, worth tags. It could be fairly an costly bundle of 4nm silicon to provide at TSMC, and the legal guidelines of provide and demand may even play a component.
Whatever the value, the processing energy on faucet might make the GPD WIN 5 probably the greatest gaming handhelds. GPD’s WIN 5 will make its public debut at ChinaJoy 2025, which kicks off on August 1. Hopefully, we’ll get much more particulars and pricing on the present.
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