So, GPD, those gadget whizzes, tossed a curveball at us back in July with their new tech baby—a handheld console of epic power, dipping its toes at the ChinaJoy expo. Picture this: a hulking little beast juiced by AMD’s Strix Halo. Anyway, a bunch of creators from China got the chance to wrestle with its guts and put it through some gnarly tests at the show. You ever hear of Bilibili? Yeah, me neither—until now. This guy, Jobs_Bao, shared what he found there, and honestly, the results made my brain do a little happy dance.
Think about it—Cinebench R23 spitting out a score of 30,495. Crazy, right? It’s like this thing went head-to-head with some heavyweight desktop dudes like the Intel Core i9-13900HX and didn’t even break a sweat. Speaking of sweat, or heat rather, the temperatures stayed pretty chill. Sort of. I mean, it hit a high of 80.3 degrees Celsius, but the part that totally doesn’t fry eggs is that the external temp was chillin’ at just over 45 degrees Celsius. Fans blaring almost louder than my neighbor’s band practice at 95dB, but still, like, manageable.
Now, let’s talk graphics, baby! With Time Spy, it racked up 9,680 points. I mean, sure, it’s not breaking RTX 4060 records, but hey, it’s definitely running in the same relay race. But here comes a plot twist—GPD capped the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 at 70 watts. Why though? That’s 50 watts shy of its full potential, so it can’t unleash that Radeon 8060S in there like we hoped. But you’ll still be fine cruising through games at Ultra settings in 1080p if that’s your jam. There’s this other person, PureDIY, who, like, posted a vid of playing Black Myth: Wukong. And get this—it was hitting over 80 FPS. Not too shabby for this handheld critter.
Oh, and bear with me—this was surprising. The battery isn’t nailed down inside the Win 5. Nope, it’s this hefty 5,170mAh thing you pop in the back. Some folks are like, what’s with the weight? It adds a beefy 340 grams, like carrying a small cat. But swapping it out? Easy-peasy. You could even leave it out when plugging in the 180-watt power brick if you’re, you know, stationary and boring.
The GPD Win 5 comes in two flavors. The premium one? It’s got the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with that sleek Radeon 8060S GPU, and it’s got memory—up to 128GB. And then there’s the thriftier sibling with a Ryzen AI Max 385 and a Radeon 8050S. But guess what? Prices still a mystery! No leaks or whispers there, so we’ll need to hang tight.
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