Handheld console industrial design PCs have become all the rage lately following the launch of the Valve Steam Deck and its rival, the Aya Neo. Although most veterans know that GPD is a company that has been around for longer. Well, the GPD Win Max 2 has just been introduced as an alternative. How does it stand against its competitors?
Retro consoles of Chinese origin have not appeared recently, rather we have had a massive invasion of these products over the past couple of years. This has forced the GPD, also based in the land of the Yellow River, to offer similar products with better specifications, with its GPD Win being its current flagships.
Unlike Valve’s Steam Deck, in the case of the GPD Win we find a complete laptop in a compact format. Which is instead focused on being able to not only play PC games from anywhere, but also enjoy retro games. That is, console and computer titles that have already been withdrawn from the commercial circuit. Especially consoles that came out in the early 2000s, where classic low-end retro consoles have serious performance issues. So let’s see what’s new the new GPD Win Max 2.
These are the specifications of the GPD Win Max 2
The first thing that stands out about the GPD Win Max 2 is that it is equipped with a Intel Core 12 processor with 14 cores and 20 execution threads and therefore a configuration of 6 P-colors and 8 colors E inside. More precisely the i7-1280Pone of the models with a TDP 28W, which seems very high for a design of this type. So we think its creators may have performed a voltage drop exercise on it. In any case, it does not seem that this system is optimized for consumption, since it has back panels M.2 SSD NVMand with PCIe Gen interface 4, with one of them already occupied, until 2TB. Regarding the RAM, it seems that there will be models of 16 or 32 GB of RAM. The type? Unknown at this time.
At the moment we do not know the design of the final version, but compared to the previous generation it seems that the screen has increased from 8 inches and from a resolution of 1280 x 800 to 10.1 inches and an 1920×120 resolution0. This increase in screen size will not result in a huge system increase. It will already go from having dimensions of 207 × 145 mm to 228×160mm. The catch behind that? There will be less space around the edges, as you can see in the image above these lines. Although at the moment we do not know what the layout of the buttons will be, we have no doubt that it will repeat the same layout as the first generation model that appeared last year. So we also expect it to come with a keyboard.
