Okay, so, here’s this wild handheld console thing — the GPD Win 5 — that popped up on the tech scene. GPD, these folks just throw things out there sometimes, you know? Anyway, they teased it back in July, but by now it’s strutted its stuff at ChinaJoy in Shanghai. Kind of a big deal. Apparently, this handheld is packing some serious heat with the AMD Strix Halo. Chinese techies – ever curious – did their nerdy thing. Jobs_Bao, yeah, this guy, ran some geeky benchmarks, Cinebench R23, Time Spy – those technical bits, over on Bilibili. Perfect chaos in tech land.
Picture this: it clocked 30,495 in Cinebench. No joke. It’s like it’s on par with these beastly Intel Core i9 desktop CPUs, the 13900HX or something. How hot? Reached 80.3 degrees Celsius, which sounds alarming, yet, somehow, the vent temp stayed just over 45 degrees. Magic, maybe? The fans roared at 95dB. Ever tried gaming with a jet taking off? I haven’t, but must be similar.
Graphics-wise, Time Spy hit 9,680 points. Almost catching up to RTX 4060. AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395, though, is capped at 70 watts when it can handle like 120 watts. Kinda like owning a race car but only cruising it around town. Still, it spits out enough power to run games on Ultra at 1080p. PureDIY, another Bilibili dweller, tried some Black Myth: Wukong on it, getting a breezy 80 FPS. Go figure.
Now, a tangent on the battery. This thing’s got a 5,170mAh one, but—wait for it—it’s separate. You can yank it off the back, swap it around like trading cards. Some folks love or hate this. Weighs an extra 340 grams, so it’s hefty. But hey, you could run it hooked on its monster 180-watt charger too. Not your typical setup, but what is these days?
Ah, there are two flavors of the Win 5. The high-end model with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Radeon 8060S, maxing out at 128GB memory, and a, let’s say, thriftier version with the Ryzen AI Max 385 and Radeon 8050S. Prices? Still in the void. Nobody’s whispering those numbers yet.
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