Xbox Ally Handhelds announced

[Pemalite]

HoloDust said:

Pemalite said:

It's going to be the most powerful handheld on the market when it releases, but also probably one of the most expensive.

I just hope they put a USB C port on the bottom for TV docks, it was always cumbersome having to put it into a dock then plug a cable into the top of the device.

Well, technically...

Both AOKZOE A1X and AYANEO 3 are using AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - I'm not completely certain Z2 Extreme in XBOX ROG Ally X and HX370 are made of the same cloth, but it appears they are both using 890m for GPU, but with HX370 having 12 core CPU (vs 8 in Z2 Extreme), as well as HX370 having AI engine.

Depends on set TDP.

Testing Ryzen APU's, if you peg the CPU's hard, it will take TDP from the GPU and lower gaming performance in some instances, unless you manually park cores and hope the power gating is effective.

But if it's a CPU bound scenario, the HX 370 would win.

Z2 Extreme in the Rog Ally X Xbox has an NPU block for A.I... For what its worth. Only 50 TOPS though AFAIK.

HoloDust said:

curl-6 said:

I can see this selling a couple million to enthusiasts, but given the entire handheld PC market only sold about 6 million systems in the last three years, this won't have much impact on the broader hardware market.

Cool for those who want it I suppose, but a niche product.

It's the first step - from my POV, MS is currently much more worried about SteamOS than anything happening in console market.

Yeah, they already lost to Android and iOS in the mobile world, they don't want to repeat the same mistakes in PC gaming.