AMD Strix Halo Gaming Handheld Delivers Desktop-Level GPU Performance — Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Nearly Matches RTX 4060

GPD dropped a little hint about a new gizmo, something powered by AMD Strix Halo. So, picture this: July’s hot, and everyone’s daydreaming about the ChinaJoy expo in Shanghai. I guess I was too. Anyway, this gadget shows up, and bam! Chinese content creators dive on it like it’s the last cookie in the jar. Some dude, Jobs_Bao (I wonder if he eats bao buns?), took the Win 5 for a spin right there on the expo floor. He ran it through those fancy gadget tests — Cinebench R23 and Time Spy. Shared all the juicy stuff on Bilibili, of course.

The scores this thing hit were through the roof — like, 30,495 points? That means it’s playing in the same league as desktop-level Intel Core i9-13900HX processors. Crazy, right? And while the processor was cooking at 80.3 degrees Celsius, the console’s vents only got to about 45. Imagine that. But yeah, those fans were spinning like mad, around 95dB, which is like a lawnmower screaming in your ear. Or maybe slightly less.

Graphics? Oh man, this baby did 9,680 points on Time Spy. Nearly kissed the scores of the RTX 4060, if you can believe it. Still, there’s a catch. GPD mutes the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 to a mere 70 watts. It’s like driving a Ferrari but stuck in third gear. So, it can’t fully unleash the Radeon 8060S inside. But hey, who needs all that when it can still crank out games at Ultra settings in 1080p? PureDIY even played Black Myth: Wukong on it, and wow, it was buttery smooth at over 80 FPS.

Now, about the battery — it’s a chunker at 5,170mAh. A bit odd, though, because it’s detachable. Some folks didn’t vibe with that, grumbling about the extra weight (340 grams, if you wanna know), but then again, you can swap batteries, like, anytime. Handy if you’re always forgetting to charge stuff. Oh, and if you want to plug it right into the humongous 180-watt brick, you can ditch the battery pack entirely.

Options? Sure, there are two. The snazzy one with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and Radeon 8060S with up to 128GB memory, and a so-so version with Ryzen AI Max 385 and Radeon 8050S. Price? Beats me, they kept that under wraps. So, we’re all just hanging, waiting.

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