WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:06.319 This seems impossible in a handheld. 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:11.120 We've had this thing for a month and you haven't let me play with it, guys. This 00:00:08.639 --> 00:00:18.480 is in Excuse me. It's the GPD Win 5 and it is 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:20.480 the handheld that Microsoft and Asus 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:29.359 might have built if they had an absolutely unlimited budget. Oh 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:32.719 my goodness, it's a little heavy. heavy 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:36.320 in performance. This thing is, I kid you 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:39.360 not, anywhere from double to triple the 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:41.280 performance of the Xbox Alli X depending 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:48.040 on the power profile that you run it in. Even the power adapter is heavy 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.040 with performance. 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:55.760 Boom. [laughter] 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:59.760 180 W power adapter. But guess what, friends? You're gonna need it because 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:06.240 the battery on this thing is a detachable 80Wh hour affair. Like 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:11.200 seriously, I think that's about on par with what's in my laptop. And that's not 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:17.040 the only thing they've got in common. This handheld uses the same stricks Halo 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:24.080 chip from AMD as in the framework desktop investment disclosure. That 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:28.159 means up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, up to 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:32.079 128 gigabytes of LPDDR5X memory, and up 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:33.840 to Radeon 8060S graphics. If you guys 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:38.320 remember my first experience with Stricks Halo, I was blown away by how 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:44.720 powerful it was and it was in a convertible tablet laptop thing in a 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:46.320 handheld. Has GPD lost their minds? The 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:51.119 answer is yes, but more about that later. This thing has so many industry 00:01:48.399 --> 00:01:55.520 firsts. It has an SSD format that I've never seen before. It's got a joystick 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:58.640 technology that I've never seen before. It's the first device I've ever seen 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.920 with a battery like this, and I feel like it merits a longerterm review. So, 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:07.520 we're going to do the unboxing. We'll give you the first impressions, and I'm going to be dailying this for at least a 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:13.120 month to give you the full goods. That's the quickest of quick start guides. 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:15.520 Truly excellent work, GPD. How to adjust 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:20.400 VRAM size because that's the kind of concern you have when you rock Stricks 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:26.319 Halo. So that 64 gigs is shared between the CPU and GPU. You can allocate it 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:31.120 pretty much however you like. Risk ultra low TDP configuration. It can do up to 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:35.040 75 watts. That's where you're going to get some of those bonkers performance 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:39.040 numbers, but you can go kind of as low as you want, though we wouldn't 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:42.400 recommend going under about 17. By that point, you start to taper off so much 00:02:40.720 --> 00:02:46.480 that you might just be better off with a less expensive handheld. Most of this is 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:50.239 just a physical overview. So, why don't we just do that since we've got the 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:57.040 device right here. Classic GPD. Check this out. This must be for the SSD tray. 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:59.519 Holds a PCIe Gen 4 SSD doing multiple 00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:03.760 gigabytes per second. The only drawback is that there's only one manufacturer, 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:06.800 Bwin. So, we're going to have to get our hands on one of those for the full 00:03:05.040 --> 00:03:12.720 review. All right, I'm going to leave the battery off while we do the physical 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:15.840 tour just cuz it's heavy. Let's start at 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:18.800 the top. Hall effect two-stage triggers 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:23.760 so you can decide if you want them clicky or if you want them 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:28.400 triggery. Classic clicky shoulder buttons. Up top 00:03:25.760 --> 00:03:32.640 we've also got a 3 and 12 mm jack, USB typeA port. That's actually pretty nice 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:38.239 to see on a handheld. Usually they're type-C only. As well as a barrel jack. 00:03:36.239 --> 00:03:41.519 Damn. I was kind of hoping there'd be a 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:47.200 separate input jack on the battery itself because then you could kind of 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:49.440 like charge [music] your spare and then 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:53.280 reload and be ready to go. But because there is no internal battery, you'd kind 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:59.280 of have to shut down to swap your battery anyway. Realistically, what I suspect most people will [music] do is 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:03.519 use this battery umbilical cord. This is included in the box. It just wasn't in 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:09.280 ours cuz it's an early unit. So, the way this works is put that on there like 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.799 that. Wow. Okay. >> You think most people are going to do 00:04:10.480 --> 00:04:18.320 this? >> I think most people is doing some pretty 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:20.320 heavy lifting here. Then you put this 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:27.520 and then at least you can take the weight of the battery off of the unit. 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:33.919 It still weighs almost as much as an Xbox outline. We're only 100 g shy. 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:38.560 >> Yeah. Just put that in your pocket. >> Listen. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. depending on 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:43.120 your pockets. Hold on. Don't mind me. I've just got these cargo pants from 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:49.919 ltstore.com. Boom. Just like that. Oh, that that's 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:53.720 pretty sick. Not going to lie, I feel pretty cool right now. 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:59.600 Where the mobility argument falls apart is this power brick. I mean, I guess I 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:04.720 could put it over on the other side. The good news is that you only need the 180 00:05:01.919 --> 00:05:06.560 W brick if you want to super fast charge it. We got 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:12.720 >> 2 hours. >> 2 hours. Yikes. Past the barrel jack. 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:17.039 Lots of ventilation up here for a pretty innovative sounding cooler that they're 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:22.639 calling Frost Wind. It features a titanium aluminum alloy fan blade 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:27.039 design. Not to mention thickened purple copper [music] heat pipes. Not sure what 00:05:25.280 --> 00:05:30.880 I was expecting at the end of thickened purple, but copper heat pipes. That was 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:34.960 that was probably it. Did I already say that this is USB 4? Therefore, you could 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:41.840 connect an external GPU if you really wanted to. It can do 100 W with USB PD, 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:44.000 but of course, your charging will be um 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:48.400 pretty slow if you're using it. Next to it is a recessed reset button. That's an 00:05:47.039 --> 00:05:54.560 inconvenient choice. >> It's a BIOS reset. >> BIOS reset. Like if I'm like 00:05:51.919 --> 00:06:00.160 overclocking and tuning, I can reset my BIOS. That's wild. Uh we've got micro 00:05:57.520 --> 00:06:06.240 SD. I know, I know. I just said suck at micro SD, but we still like you 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:11.680 on weekends. The bottom, we had that SSD tray. Another USBC port. Love this. Love 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:17.199 to have both top and bottom capabilities. You heard it here first. 00:06:13.280 --> 00:06:19.199 The Win 5 is very uh versatile lover. 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:23.680 No, seriously though, uh this one is not USB 4 though. This is USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10 00:06:21.840 --> 00:06:27.520 Gbit per second. Now, let's have a look at the face. She may not be just a 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:34.720 pretty face, but she's got a pretty face. Hold on. I might need to put the battery on. Oh, yeah. Hey, there's those 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:36.720 aluminum titanium aluminium fans. Also, 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:40.319 R4 and L4 buttons back here. >> Okay, 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:44.319 good job. It kind of looks like a monstrous PSP with a giant tumor on the 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:46.720 back. Hey. Uh, does the power button have a fingerprint sensor? 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:53.520 >> It sure does. >> Very nice. Got that biometric authentication. Let's fire this bad boy 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:55.440 up. Also on the front, we have a type of 00:06:53.520 --> 00:07:00.479 joystick that I've never heard of before. Capacitive joysticks. So, that 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:04.880 doesn't mean capacitive surface on the top for like switching between gyro 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:09.599 aiming like on the new Steam Controller. What that means is that there's a piece 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:13.199 of plastic in the other end and then you've got a completely contactless 00:07:11.280 --> 00:07:17.280 sensor mechanism around it that detects changes in voltage as the little plastic 00:07:15.599 --> 00:07:22.400 piece swings and moves around. Basically, in a nutshell, it's supposed 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:24.639 to be maybe even better than TMR, which 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:28.000 is kind of mind-blowing how we had zero progress on joysticks since the [music] 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:31.120 Dreamcast, and then all of a sudden there's like all this innovation. God, 00:07:29.440 --> 00:07:35.199 they're smooth. I mean, they touch nothing, right? So, there should be no 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:39.680 drift. And apparently the dead zones are like 00:07:37.599 --> 00:07:44.000 very small, pretty decent feeling D-pad. I wouldn't say that your diagonals are 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:50.479 going to be the easiest to hit, but if you don't mind the more arrowy style of 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:52.960 D-pad. Yeah. I And I don't I like moving 00:07:50.479 --> 00:07:57.360 down, we have a back button. I assume it goes back. Home button probably takes 00:07:55.535 --> 00:08:01.919 [music] you home. Current window/ desktop. So, select, start, desktop, 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:09.440 keyboard. We've also got volume controls and ooh, menu, which is the Xbox button. 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:16.000 Okay. Yeah, I can work with that. I can't wait for this to get the Windows 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:19.759 Xbox full screen gaming experience thing. You can actually like hack it in 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:23.759 now, but we haven't [music] cuz unboxings are, you know, supposed to be 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:26.080 based on the out of the box experience, but I'm definitely going to do that for 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:30.319 the longer term review. >> Yeah. One more button. >> Oh, apparently there's one more button. 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:36.080 Well, this isn't really a button. This is a mouse. How cool is that, right? But 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:40.320 basically, it's a little optical sensor. And so instead of being, you know, 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:44.959 having a mouse that you move over top of a stationary surface, you move the 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:48.720 surface over top of a mouse sensor. As you can see, clearly not the greatest 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:51.920 thing [music] in the world, but it can be better than using your joystick for 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:56.959 joy to mouse. Or you can just use joy to mouse if you really want. And you can actually toggle that right up here. Just 00:08:54.959 --> 00:09:00.160 hold that down and you can move your mouse ever so slowly. Don't don't worry, 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:04.480 you can adjust that if you really want. And then I assume these are my clicks. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:09.120 Oh, they sure are. Before we fire up any games, this is a perfect time to talk 00:09:05.920 --> 00:09:11.279 about the screen. It's 1080p, 500 nits, 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:14.640 120 Hz, and does support variable refresh rate. I can't say for certain 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:19.519 that it's the same screen that's in the LA Xbox, RD, Alex, LAX. But the specs 00:09:17.839 --> 00:09:23.040 are sure very similar, and we achieved just over 500 nits in our real world 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:26.880 testing. Please tell me this has tape to tape on it. Oh, and now is the perfect 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:30.800 time to talk about our sponsor, Dbrand. Hey, want your gadgets and gizmos to be 00:09:28.959 --> 00:09:35.920 the bell of the ball? Well, now's the time. Dbrand's Black Friday sale is on 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:41.200 now. Save up to 50% sitewide, which means now you can afford those shiny 00:09:37.920 --> 00:09:43.200 stickers. Ooh, shiny. Score 40% off of 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:47.920 ghost and grip bundles with kill switch kits at $45 off. 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John, is this the 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:28.800 Windows 98 theme? 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:33.040 >> Well, [snorts] like 3.1. >> There is a lot of really cool stuff that 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:38.640 you can do in here with respect to power limits, CPU boost, fan speed control. 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:41.920 You'll just have to figure out how the freick to do it. You can configure so 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:46.240 much in here. You can even configure things that don't work. So, you can see 00:10:43.839 --> 00:10:52.640 there's two different TDPs, a pluggedin ACT TDP and a not pluggedin DCTP. But 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:57.279 not plugged in actually caps at 45. So, we'll be we'll be running 45, I guess. 00:10:54.560 --> 00:11:01.200 FPS limit. Okay. All cores auto. Oh, you can set a maximum CPU frequency. That 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:07.079 might help you conserve some of your power limit for your GPU, for instance. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.079 Start gyro simulate. 00:11:07.920 --> 00:11:16.320 Cool. Let's just not do that anymore for now. 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:20.240 Whoa. Listen to them fans. 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:21.600 They go, man. They're goers. Already I 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:28.160 like the button layout better than the Xbox ROG Ally X that has other buttons 00:11:25.760 --> 00:11:32.079 and joysticks in the way of your ABXY. These are like kind of critical for 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:37.760 gaming. It's so flipping heavy. Ergonomics. Uh not bad though. Got a 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:40.560 nice little rounded business here. Wow, 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:43.360 that fan though. Is this a custom fan curve, John? 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:47.600 >> It's probably the defaults, but you can turn them down when you're at that 45 00:11:45.680 --> 00:11:53.120 watts if you are okay with it being a little bit hotter. God, 00:11:50.320 --> 00:12:00.079 this is sick, dude. It's so smooth. This seems 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:04.480 impossible in a handheld. And it is because I can't actually support the 00:12:03.040 --> 00:12:10.800 weight. [laughter] It's hand, but it's not really held. 00:12:08.160 --> 00:12:14.720 Holy crap. And this has got to be at higher 00:12:13.040 --> 00:12:18.000 settings than I'm used to running out on handhelds. Like, there's reflections 00:12:16.079 --> 00:12:20.959 everywhere and stuff. Okay, I want to know what it's running at, you guys. 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:26.800 1080p. Okay, that's already pretty cool. Dude, 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:28.720 this is on like medium. That's insane. 00:12:26.800 --> 00:12:32.399 The craziest part though is how smooth it's running. This has got to be like 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:37.600 I'm afraid to say a number so high because it seems like it couldn't be right. But this has got to be like 80 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:42.480 FPS. I'm going to say 90. I'm going to say 90. Damn, I should have stuck with 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:45.680 my first guess. We're around 70 FPS. But I mean, that's what variable refresh 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:50.079 rate will do to you. it'll be really good and make things seem smoother. And 00:12:48.160 --> 00:12:57.760 it especially helps it feel smooth when your FPS is super consistent. And we're 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:59.920 hovering between about 62 and 72, 00:12:57.760 --> 00:13:04.200 which is enough to make variable refresh rate feel really good. 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:12.040 Uh, is this joystick not working? Are we back? Are we back to mouse control? Damn 00:13:08.160 --> 00:13:12.040 it. We're back to mouse controls. 00:13:12.079 --> 00:13:20.880 Yes, I will reconnect my controller there. Now, let me control. There we go. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:23.600 All right. Wait, what the hell? 00:13:20.880 --> 00:13:29.040 I can't steer. Am I missing something here, folks? All I can say for sure 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:31.120 right now is, 00:13:29.040 --> 00:13:36.480 oh my gosh, this performance is absolutely incredible. But you are going 00:13:33.680 --> 00:13:43.399 to need some crazy speakers to overcome this fan noise. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:43.399 in this area. 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:54.720 >> Not bad. Front facing. I really am not 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:57.600 happy with not being able to use my joysticks right now. Okay, I'm going to 00:13:55.839 --> 00:14:01.600 relaunch the game one more time. Man, that fan though. 00:13:59.760 --> 00:14:07.360 >> You're only at 45. >> Whoa. Yeah. And the exhaust air is 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:08.959 freaking hot and it's everywhere. That's 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:14.399 one of their claims about the cooling design is that it's like uniform 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:17.680 something. So that's cool, I guess. Hey, 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:19.440 there we go. Now I can drive. 00:14:17.680 --> 00:14:26.639 Can you adjust your dead zones in this game? Oh yeah, dead zone. 00:14:23.199 --> 00:14:28.160 >> Whoops. Whoops. Oh god. 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:32.480 Apparently this shouldn't be a thing with the finished units, but for now I 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:36.880 do have to have a little bit of an inner dead zone. Um, either way, let's try 00:14:35.199 --> 00:14:43.360 them as they're running right now. Oh, that's that's nice and responsive now. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:45.360 All right. Now, I suck donkey butt at 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:49.760 aiming with controllers, but let's still give it a shot. Dude, even as they are 00:14:47.680 --> 00:14:55.160 now with the dead zones I had to configure, these just feel so smooth. 00:14:58.160 --> 00:15:04.320 Now, to be clear, there is some aim [music] assist obviously, but even 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:09.279 getting it close enough can be a problem for me often. 00:15:07.199 --> 00:15:14.240 The craziest part of what we just saw is that was at 45 watts and the Labs tested 00:15:12.160 --> 00:15:17.199 it at up to 75 watts. So, here's a preview of the kind of performance you 00:15:16.079 --> 00:15:22.720 can expect out of this thing. We're actually going to have an accompanying Labs article to go along with the short 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:26.160 circuit and then maybe we'll do even a little bit more testing when we do the 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:29.440 full LT after I've had a bit more time with this thing. It clearly has some 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:32.959 drawbacks, but if you were looking for the deluxest of the most deluxe 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:37.519 handhelds, I mean, this is it. This is the all 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:41.279 bells and whistles for now. 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:45.279 I kind of wish the battery could kind of, you know, 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:48.639 kickstand or something, you know, like that'd be pretty that probably be kind 00:15:46.959 --> 00:15:51.600 of janky, though. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.