The GPD Win 4, a compact and lightweight handheld PC with the appearance of a new Sony Playstation Portable, features the Ryzen 7 8840U (“Hawk Point”), up to 64 GiByte LPDDR5 at 7,500 MT/s and a maximum of 4 TiByte via PCIe 4.0 x4 connected SSD storage space “all in”. The extremely portable game console also demonstrates the coexistence of Windows 11 and SteamOS 3.5.
Handheld PC as a clone of the Sony PSP
Visually, the gaming handheld, equipped with a 6-inch full HD H-IPS display (“1080p”), could easily pass as a new edition of the Playstation Portable (“PSP”) released by Sony in 2004. The entire design of the GPD Win 4 (“Early 2024”), like its direct predecessor, the GPD Win 4 (“Early 2023”), looks like a modern refresh of the portable game console that was introduced around 20 years ago and is now turning 80 Has sold millions of copies.
Source: GPD Technology Unlike the Sony PSP, which was a game console with a closed system that at the time still managed with 333 MHz and 32 MiByte RAM, the GPD Win 4 (2023) is an open and fully-fledged portable PC Form also a handheld PC, which can rely on the most modern hardware architectures, such as AMD’s Zen 4 and RNDA 3. The Ryzen 7 8840U (“Hawk Point”) is flanked by fast LPDDR5-7500 with a capacity of up to 64 GiByte.
Quelle: GPD Technology
Quelle: GPD Technology
In terms of specifications, the GDP Win 4 (2024), like its big brother, the GPD Win Max (2023), pushes the limits of what is currently feasible and also offers some special features and unique selling points.
Slider display and full keyboard
The 6-inch Full HD display with its H-IPS panel is equipped as a “slider” with a sliding mechanism and hides a full-fledged keyboard below the display, which is intended to make operating the handheld PC much more comfortable even when not playing games. Nevertheless, compared to the new Asus ROG Ally and the Valve Steam Deck, both of which are in the 7-inch class, the GPD Win 4 is compact and measures only 220 × 92 × 28 mm (W × D × H) at 598 grams .
Source: GPD Technology The handheld PC is available in black and white and has a battery with around 46 Wh, which can be quickly supplied with fresh energy via a 65 watt power supply. In order to conserve resources and offer a better gaming experience, the H-IPS display can be slowed down from the factory 60 to 40 Hz refresh rate.
USB4, Thunderbolt 4 and fast eGPUs
In addition to USB4 and Thunderbolt 4, the handheld PC also has the external Oculink interface (“SFF-8612”), which, for example, also supports external graphics cards, so-called eGPUs, such as the in-house GPD G1 with a Radeon RX 7600M XT based on the RDNA-3 architecture that can be connected at up to 63 Gibit/s. In terms of connectivity, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 are also worth mentioning.
Radeon RX 7600M XT as an external graphics card
As GPD Technology has now announced, the GPD Win 4 can also be combined with an external graphics card (eGPU) in its various configurations. A mobile AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT with the RDNA 3 graphics processor Navi 33, which is still manufactured in 6 nm, is used for this. With regard to the specifications, the external graphics card, which measures 225 × 111 × 29.8 mm and weighs 0.92 kg, offers the following key technical data.
Source: GPD Technology The comparatively high performance and efficiency are ensured by 32 compute units with a total of 2,048 shader units as well as 8 GiByte GDDR6 on a 128-bit wide memory interface, which are supported by 32 MiByte Infinity Cache. A switch should enable two different operating modes with 100 watts and 60 watts TDP, as the website Tom’s Hardware has now reported.
Windows 11 and SteamOS 3.5 coexist
As is typical for gaming handhelds from GPD Technology, the GPD Win 4 (“Early 2024”) is available with either the Windows 11 or SteamOS 3.5 operating systems. However, a dual-boot setup is not offered, so end users have to choose a platform.
Quelle: GPD Technology
Coming soon to the shop
The GPD Win 4 (“Early 2024”) will soon be available via the Chinese manufacturer’s in-house online shop and will be priced based on its direct predecessor, which is available from $779.90. In the largest possible configuration with 64 GiByte RAM, over 1,000 US dollars are due.
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Those: GPD Technology, Tom’s Hardware