Oh, man. So, GPD’s got this new handheld thingy with some fancy AMD Strix Halo something-or-other. They first dangled it in front of our faces back in July, right? Then, boom, this ChinaJoy expo rolls around in Shanghai, and people finally see it in the wild. A bunch of folks over there are messing around with it, tossing it through all sorts of tests. I watched this guy, Jobs_Bao, on Bilibili trying it out. Yep, there’s a whole lot going on in the handheld world, let me tell ya.
The thing scored a whopping 30,495 on Cinebench R23. I don’t fully get how massive that is, but apparently, we’re talking about desktop-class stuff here. It’s wild. And the best part? It didn’t even heat up like a furnace—just hit 80.3 degrees Celsius, which is kinda cool considering it was, like, full-throttle. At the top, it was like a mere 45 degrees. Imagine that. I expected it to be like holding a mini volcano, but nope.
But here’s the kicker: it scored 9,680 on Time Spy. Whatever that means. Something about RTX 4060 level, which sounds intense, but then they went ahead and put a cap on it. It’s like giving someone a fancy sports car but then saying, “Nah, you can’t take it past 70.” So, okay, you might not be zipping past everyone, but still, Black Myth: Wukong runs okayish—80 FPS or something, according to another guy, PureDIY. Not too shabby, I guess?
Then there’s the battery. It’s huge—5,170mAh, they say. But it’s not like the usual thing you’d expect. Nope, it’s this separate chunk you slap onto the back. Makes it bulkier, yes, but hey, just pop it out if you don’t want it there or swap it on the go. Who would’ve thought a battery could be like a new fidget widget?
Oh, before I forget, there are two versions of this thing: one’s loaded with fancy guts, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Radeon-whatever 8060S, up to 128GB memory. And then there’s the budget-buddy version with the Ryzen AI Max 385. But no clue on how much these tech wonders will set you back. We’re all in suspense.
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