This new gaming laptop is a strange rival for your Steam Deck dollars
techradar.comIf you’re having trouble getting your hands on a Steam Deck, Chinese tech company GPD has a rather oddball solution
It’s called the GPD Win Max 2(opens in new tab) and it’s a miniature laptop that doubles as a handheld gaming console. Looking like an oversized Nintendo DS, the Win Max 2 has physical gaming controls above its keyboard complete with two analog sticks, a directional pad, and four face buttons. There are two pairs of shoulder buttons, plus an extra programmable pair on the back. It even has a six-axis gyroscope for motion control and a vibration motor.
Really, the GPD Win Max 2 is a weird hybrid of recent gaming features. The only thing that’s missing is a touch screen.
Unlike the Steam Deck, GPD wants its new device to double as a work laptop. For starters, the Win Max 2 comes with two magnetic covers that can be placed over the embedded controllers to hide them so your boss is none the wiser. And there’s a built-in 2MP camera with a wide-angle view for video meetings.
On top of that, the computer has some fairly powerful hardware. You’ll have your choice of two models depending on which processor/graphic pair you choose.
The first model has an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor paired with a AMD Radeon 680M RDNA2 graphics card. The 6800U is made up of eight cores with 16 threads and has a maximum boosted clock speed of 4.7 Ghz. GPD claims the 680M GPU allows the Win Max 2 to run certain games at “around 40 to 60 FPS with 1920x1200 resolution.” The full list of games that run at this quality is unknown, but the company does reveal 12, which include Elden Ringand Valorant.
The other combination consists of an Intel 12th Gen Core i7-1260P CPU with Iris Xe GPU. It has four performance and eight efficient cores with 16
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