{"video_id":"8NK1I6S_vFs","title":"Steam Deck Competitors are ALREADY Here - GPD Win Max","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":1120,"segments":[{"start_s":0.12,"end_s":7.399,"text":"just a few short weeks ago we got a firsthand look at the latest book in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.959,"end_s":9.84,"text":"Lord gab's gospel the valve steam deck","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.399,"end_s":14.559,"text":"it's the PC Gamers version of a Nintendo switch except instead of running light","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.12,"end_s":20.32,"text":"casual games it can run the latest AAA titles it looks freaking awesome but the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.52,"end_s":24.48,"text":"thing is while valve is definitely pushing the landscape forward when it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.039,"end_s":30.039,"text":"comes to handheld gaming they are not the only 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running light casual games it can run the latest AAA titles it looks freaking awesome but the thing is while valve is definitely pushing the landscape forward when it comes to handheld gaming they are not the only player in this field and their competition isn't standing still the this right here is the GPD win Max 2021 Edition it's the first time that GPD has ever built a ryzen handheld and it has eight Flippin Zen 2 cores but wait there's more this is the GPD win Max 2021 Edition Intel Edition the first GPD handheld with Intel XC graphics and they're the most powerful onboard Graphics we've seen from Intel yet man they are going to be some interesting stories to tell plot twist I'm going to kick things off with the Intel version because this is the first device we've ever gotten hands on with with Intel's top-of-the-line tiger Lake CPU the core i7 1195 G7 and on paper anyway it promises to be an absolute Beast it's got four cores eight threads boosts up to 5 GHz can be configured to multiple TDP levels up to 25 watts and perhaps most importantly has 96 Iris XE compute units in its onboard GPU which means it should be significantly faster than the ryzen 4800 U and who knows maybe even competitive with the upcoming rdna2 graphics on the steam deck that's what I really want to find out while we've got it open this is a perfect opportunity to compare the GPD wi Max 20 21 against what we know about the steam deck first and foremost the CPU and memory are both soldered to the main board but that's pretty much a given in any machine this compact where they differ is the SSD they both use a standard m.2 slot which is great that means if you're willing to put the work in valve has said that theoretically the steam deck should be upgradeable but it should be noted that this one it will a be easier to upgrade and B probably more worthwhile because the steam uses a 30 mm m.2 which up until now I believe only even goes up to 1 TB of capacity whereas the GPD wi Max 2021 uses an 80 mm m.2 which uh looks like you could only fit a single sided so that's good to know which means you could go up to 4 tbytes at least presently while we're digging around in here some other notable features are the Dual stereo speakers micro SD slot the steam deck has one of those as well for storage expansion the Intel Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chipset as well as a full fullsize gigabit Ethernet Jack which gives us our first hint as to what the real intended use of the GPD win Maxes because this is more than just a gaming machine which isn't to say that it's not gaming focused both valve and GPD have taken very different approaches to how to handle joysticks if there's one thing we know for sure it's that lowprofile joysticks do have reliability issues that we as Gamers have observed over the years so GPD rather than increased the profile of the Machine by having the joysticks stick up out of it has actually sunk the joysticks into the top deck of the laptop and then you can see here they take up almost the entire depth of the machine inside and they've actually had to build the PCB around them there's no doubt in my mind that valves handheld has a better integrated controller but to gpd's credit these joysticks feel pretty darn good for lowprofile ones so does the d-pad and the abxy buttons have both nice click switches as well as this is a really nice touch secondary printing on the legend with a cross circle square triangle for PlayStation users because let's face it you're going to be emulating games unfortunately both the shoulder and Trigger buttons use the same switches so if you're super into driving games or anything where you want that nice fine analog control on your trigger you're not going to find it here but it does make up a lot of that ground in IO so in addition to your Ethernet port you've got HDMI 2.0 2 USB type A's and yes my friends Thunderbolt that means any number of docking Solutions and even external graphics cards which naturally we'll be trying later and that's to say nothing about one of the windmax 2021s biggest undocked benefits the massive 57w hour battery now Intel's tiger Lake chips they're pretty power hungry but GPD claims that's still good for up to 3 hours of use under heavy load with up to 14 hours under a light load of course you're going to want to configure your TDP and squeeze even more out of it right let's screw this thing back together and see if it still works now that we're in Windows one last bit of IO I didn't show you is this cool toggle switch right here it changes the GamePad into a native Mouse mode so that unlike other handheld devices you don't have to have a little utility running in the system tray it just freaking works so your left shoulder button is your left click and it actually rebinds um some of the keys as well so you can see this left analog stick Is WD so it allows it to work in more of like a a keyboard mouse mode if that is for whatever reason what you prefer with some games that could be better one thing I noticed just moving the mouse around though is that while the 8-in display on the Wind Max 2021 runs at the same 1280 by 800 resolution as the steam deck and it's IPS and actually gets like quite quite bright you can see there's a fair bit of smearing as I move the mouse around can you see that this is not the most responsive display I've ever seen to be clear this is not a game breaker it's only a 60 HZ display so it's not like you're going to be like oh wow this is just a completely smear mess or anything like that but I have seen better Moment of Truth do maternal launch we made it this far last time yeah we made it to where the master chief is standing on his thing it's not master chief I know you you had to you had to you had to say something oh oh wow oh oh oh it had a little little moment there let me flip it into controller mode here holy shnikes this might actually work which shouldn't really be that impressive but okay I want to go back o oh it's definitely got some issues some issues here we go we've got both machines configured to their maximum TDP so around 25 watts although you can see that according to rivet tuner Intel is actually drawing significantly more than that sometimes as high as around 35 Watts but the bigger takeaway here is not necessarily that Intel's drawing more power but rather that Intel is actually not managing nearly the same frame rate even when it is running smoothly so what are we getting around 35 40 FPS when it's going yeah sometimes it doesn't go as much whoa not only not only that but you can see our Intel CPU managed 100° Max meanwhile our AMD system remember this is with a 4800 U is running at a pretty consistent 60 plus FPS and this is at exactly the same setting so all medium native resolution with motion blur turned off man this is O this is way more playable you know though I am surprised at how close this performances to the rdna 2 graphics in the steam deck when I compared head-to-head and do maternal while I was at valve's headquarters I found that the steam deck was about 50% faster looking at exactly the same scene as the aan Neo so let's go ahead and take the a Neo into this same scene and check this out we're running it anywhere from around 35 up to around 50 FPS but generally in the 40 to 45 range this is not what I was expecting but we also know that Doom maternal is not properly optimized on Intel XC Graphics so let's move on to something else hopefully in dirt 5 we're going to see a more even competition here the Intel machine managed to load into the game a bit faster but that's not particularly meaningful from like a gaming enjoyments to okay wow this is a dead heat Intel looks like they might be maybe maybe like three to five 5% ahead in performance but it's oh maybe not holy crap I don't remember the last time I saw anything be this close AMD versus Intel only the results will tell us the answer in the meantime I want to run the a Neo because this is the one device that I've had a chance to run head-to-head against the steam deck so that will hopefully give us an idea of where the steam deck Falls in all of this obviously I'd rather be testing the steam deck right now but I don't have one wow these are close when we look at average frame rates they're within about 1% of each other although I still consider this a win for Intel since their minimums didn't dip quite as low though certainly this isn't as big a win as Doom maternal was for AMD as for the a&o its result of around 30 FPS seems to suggest that both of our wind Maxes could very well end up within Striking Distance of the steam deck though of course it should be noted that these are both 25 wat TDP CPUs rather than 15 watts next up F1 2021 we're running at Native resolution low settings TAA enabled man this is a really goodlooking game even at low oh wow Intel is slaying it here the 4800u and the AMD wind Max is already looking like it might end up competitive with the steam deck maybe a little bit behind but the Intel machine is running at 80 almost 90 plus FPS in some places like we could actually probably turn this up to medium that is a big difference in performance who that's not even close wow Intel's a solid 30% ahead of AMD on this one then after that great showing I managed to make it as far as the prologue cinematic in Halo 4 and I got a fatal error in the game completely crashed come on Intel Graphics drivers like you guys are launching a discret card soon you got to be better than this to be clear I understand there's probably workarounds for just about all of this stuff in fact GPD even quotes performance numbers from Doom maternal on their website that are much better than what we observed but average users can't be expected to go find that stuff this is not a great experience both of them are running at well over a hundo FPS here though we see some dips very solid though very solid a thumb stick in two controllers at the same time would not recommend they call me sticky man so this is Little Big Planet this is running in a PS3 emulator rpcs3 and on the Intel system I mean we are getting a solid locked 30fps which is what this game runs at um but you can see it's got some problems meanwhile in the AMD system we're getting frame drops uh it says 29 FPS I don't believe it this is definitely not uh completely running properly but we're getting far fewer graphical anomalies although still some something to bear in mind though is that PlayStation 3 emulation is already very challenging because of the unconventional architecture of the PlayStation 3 and Little Big Planet in particular is quite demanding oh wow this is 60 FPS oh oh oh oh we got a see-through Sumo you check this out look at my see-through Sumo here knocked out baby I won I just clicked a a bunch this is totally playable oh for sure no this is this is like perfect this is totally usable wait a minute his clothes appeared yeah we just unlocked the frame rate so my oh wow the uh game speed is a little different but assuming that the in game physics is not tied to the frame rate because the developer a Chad um this is a way this wow my entire character is at the loading missing yeah this is very fast and very broken I'm at like anywhere from 100 to 120 FPS I'm like 90 but different map but I imagine that's probably has to do more the graphics not the the map I guess if you want to play Tekken six it works pretty good yeah I wouldn't recommend unlocking the frame rate though it seems a little more broken on the Intel one like I don't have that much stuff missing yeah oh it's definitely more broken on the Intel machine but it runs faster now mark bench our Benchmark for Premiere was designed for much more powerful systems than these ones but it can still tell us a lot so you can see here we've got four separate 4K Clips all playing back at the same time and on our Intel system it actually handles it and the transitions reasonably smoothly albeit at 1/8 resolution meanwhile on the AMD system we go from usable but not perfect to not really usable one thing that's nice about these that I didn't mention before is if you want it there is a trackpad it's not the greatest experience ever but there are times when it'll probably come in handy for you all right let's go ahead and start our encoding Benchmark now yeah I think our poor Intel system is just going to get slapped here there it goes it's just slow yeah if it can manage a victory here I'll be impressed wow this 4K encoding Benchmark ended up not even being close the Intel machine's been done for a solid 20 seconds already and the AMD machine is still finishing up even though we started the Intel machine slightly afterward cuz I misclicked so the big pattern that's emerging here is Tiger Lake and XC Graphics when they work they're fast and when they don't it sucks of course one of the key benefits of going with the Intel version is that you're not necessarily married to the onboard Graphics let's go ahead and dock it to this Gigabyte egpu box here it's got networking USB and of course an RTX 380 graphics card in it let's see if it just fires up for us here look at that just like that oh we're going to need some drivers oh look at that Jake Jake preet up the drivers for us I need a mouse pad LTT Store.com boom I mean let's see if it'll play Doom maternal now how do you like me now it's got this it's got this don't even worry about a thing keep the the this way up another key benefit of Thunderbolt I don't need my power adapter anymore I can just get power from the Thunderbolt connection to my dock casual 100 plus FPS Doom maternal absolutely maxed out it's actually running at that too like this is very smooth CPU is at 83° in terms of power it's pulling anywhere from around 27 to 2 8 watts so considering that we're not even touching the integrated Graphics that's pretty impressive like just absolutely no stutter whatsoever butter smooth who needs stutter when you've got butter now for dirt five we got this crank to ultra high we're going to turn on some Ray traced vehicle Shadows honestly the car Shadows are so soft because of the the the fact that the sun's behind the clouds that I'm having a hard time telling if they like look better because they're R traced or whatever yeah which is probably an indication that it's working yeah this is not a trivial game to run and it's like 55 to 60 FPS the whole time at 4K I'm just I keep watching these car Shadows here yeah I'm looks now that they're a bit harder that is very like accurate but something we haven't talked about up until now is what is the GPD when Max even like to use as a controller right now great Everything feels accurate and responsive the switches are all nice and clicky but I also have the device resting on a table in front of me if I had to actually hold it up it's pretty heavy and the ergonomics are far from perfect compared to most controllers where you're kind of cradling them like this and your thumbs have this great degree of movement on the Wind Max they're kind of stuck like this and it kind of brings your elbows in sort of funny so the design is only going to appeal to people who want a gaming device that is also useful for other things because even though the keyboard quite frankly sucks for typing it's obviously a lot better for typing than just not having one at all what we can't fault is the performance despite the fact that neither of the 2021 Edition win Maxes have rdna2 graphics and not to mention that they're only running ddr4 rather than ddr5 they both get surprisingly close to where we're expecting the steam deck to eventually land so as long as you don't find the form factor offputting you may not have to wait although you will definitely have to pay a significantly higher price what you won't have to pay for is our sponsor unless you really like it then you could pay for it thanks to freshbooks for 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