Steam Deck Competitors are ALREADY Here - GPD Win Max

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We tried both AMD and Intel versions of the GPD Win Max, a "handheld" portable computer for gaming on the go. Can it beat the Aya Neo, and can it rival what we've seen from the Steam Deck so far?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:22 Specs
3:25 Thumbsticks
6:30 Doom Eternal
7:40 Thermals
8:47 Dirt 5
10:10 F1 2021
11:40 Little Big Planet
12:25 Tekken 6
13:25 Benchmarks
14:35 GPU Dock
16:40 Handheld Experience
17:30 Conclusion
18:37 Outro

[zomblog]

this is exactly what Valve wants. A bunch of protable PCs that can do anything like a normal running Steam and/or SteamOS

[jackm]

Those look like a little laptop that the stereotypical bad guy uses to "hack" into stuff

[nexaentertainment]

"Steam deck competitor" costs over 2x as much, performs worse (at least from what we've seen so far).
Yup.
I get it, valve is almost certainly selling at a loss, but still. It's not even close, unless you /need/ the keyboard.

[EmblemParade]

As good as these are, Valve just blasts them out of the water in pricing. That's the real transformation that Valve is creating, bringing PC gaming down to a cost and level of accessibility that it frankly never had. $400 and you're in.

[SeanHodgins]

These could be awesome for robotics applications.

[JokingJay]

The problem for everyone except Valve is that AMD APUs with RDNA2 cores are currently exclusive to the Steam Deck...

[MarioandLuigi]

The steam deck looks to beat these by miles. These arent handhelds, they're literally small laptops that look like a nightmare to actually hold. Not to mention being way more expensive and worse performance wise.

[TheJuggtron]

We're heading back to the old days of "it depends what you're playing"

[Thesilvernintendo]

Valve: yes, exactly what we want. We don’t have to make it and people will still buy our games.”

[Burssty]

I really like that PC handhelds are going to be a competitive market. Will be really healthy for the handheld market and help compatibility between form factors for applications. Bring it on

[DwarfBaerdyn]

"Specifically designed for you, the small business owner..."

While I appreciate the vote of confidence, I do believe there has been some miscommunication. 😆

[DaJuicer]

I run fighting game tournaments here in California, and can confirm that fighting games are 100% tied to being 60fps. Each move has a specific frame data, that assumes the game is running at 60fps. So things can get a little wonky if you run the game at anything other than 60fps.

[gnpaone]

My first thought was "Is the netbook back in the market?" 😀

[lanarkorras]

Those ergonomics totally kill it as a gaming device though, whereas the keyboard... Well, I'd neither want to play nor work with that thing for as long as I would have to in order to justify a purchase in the first place.

[RayTRX]

In Tekken 6, The Brokenness you were seeing was due to using Asynchronous Shader Compilation in RPCS3, Which skips rendering the objects until the gpu can recompile a shader and put this proccessing on a different CPU thread(s), It's worse on the Intel CPU because that has half the cores, meaning less threads where shader compilation could run.

[InsanitiesBrother]

"The first GPD handheld with Intel XE Graphics"...

Also Linus, has literally held the GPD Win 3 in his hands....

[GianniKnowsBest]

Linus: "These are not good for racing games "
Also Linus: * proceeds to test racing games *

[Felinusfish]

Valve is the best player on the field. They're pushing Linux gaming hard and we will most definitely be seeing games with anticheat in the near future. I'm excited to see what they do with the Steam Deck, and I'm INCREDIBLY excited to see the capabilities of the Steam Deck. Here's to a decade of hopefully great advancements in technology!

[AdmiralBison]

The rise of handheld PCs/Gaming PCs.

Hopefully there will be more options, skus and sizes to fit different budgets and demands.
Personally I am hoping for an all spec'ed up 9'+ screen handheld gaming PC that could be my main PC for work and leisure.

[GaryA]

Valves pricing strategy is aggressive and highly competitive if you ask me and it obliterates the prices on this systems regardless of spec advantages or disadvantages the only reason I myself would consider the gpd is because of that thunderbolt dock which is amazing to have but is it required for my use? Probably not. I look forward to the steam deck release 😎