WIN MAX 2021 KEY FEATURES :

• The world’s first Handheld Game Laptop based on AMD Ryzen™ 7 4800U.

• Intel Core™ i7-1165G7 / 1185G7 version is also available, the single-core performance exceeds desktop flagship i9-10900K ones.

• Iris Xe iGPU, with baffling performances that surpasses MX350.

• Placed on a desk, it is the world smallest gaming notebook, held with both hands, it becomes a gaming handheld.

• Newly designed gamepad, unibody D-pad, recessed analog sticks with non-slip coating, support L3/R3 functions.

• Many recent AAA grade games can be enjoyed with medium settings and run up to 60 frames per second.

• 800P 8-inch H-IPS screen for a balanced gaming experience.

• Dual-channel LPDDR4x memory with a frequency up to 4266MHz, 16Gb capacity, for a read/write speeds of over 60GB/s.

• 1TB M.2 NVMe 2280 SSD, 4th generation PCIe bus technology, doubled read and write speed compared to the previous generation, even surpassing USB4 speed.

• 1TB M.2 NVMe 2280 SSD, 4th generation PCIe bus technology, doubled read and write speed compared to the previous generation, even surpassing USB4 speed.

• 3×5000mAh / 57Wh high-capacity polymer lithium battery, with an average use life of 5 hours.

• Adjustable three level TDP: 20W, 25W, and 28W.

• PC-grade twin turbofan + dual heat pipe cooling solution, large air displacement side blowing design, 9-hole high-speed cooling channel.

• 65W super fast charge, based on PD 2.0 fast charge protocol, can charge mobile phones, tablets, notebooks, and other devices at the same time.

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Games Frames Measurement

WIN 3 users should have a good understanding of Intel Tiger Lake UP3's performances while gaming. Not only WIN Max 2021 has an Intel Tiger Lake UP3 version, but it has an AMD Ryzen 7 4800U version aswell. What are the performance difference between this two types of processor in game? The following table depicts the frame rate value in low settings at the 1280×800 resolution in several games:

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Testing environment: i7-1185G7 / R7 4800U, 16GB LPDDR4x 4266, 1TB NVMe SSD, 1280×800, Windows 10 Home 20H2. The previous games are from low to medium settings.It can be seen that on i7-1185G7 WIN Max 2021 based, game frame rate is generally much higher, thanks to the Intel Iris Xe GFX core!

8 Inch screen,800 p resolution , the smoothest and more balanced gaming experiece.

WIN Max 2021 has an 8-inch H-IPS panel, the 5th generation Corning Gorilla Glass screen. The display area is 133% larger than the previous generation, with 67% DCI-P3 wide color gamut, flickerless, 350-nits brightness. The pixel density is twice higher than a 24-inch/1080P display, and the horizontal viewing angle is as high as 178°. It supports 10-point touch, the default resolution is 1280×800, which perfectly supports old games with 1024×768 resolution (4:3).

Is it true that the higher the resolution, the better? Let's talk about the misconception around high resolution screens!

With an 8-inch screen with only a physical resolution of 1280×800, game visual quality and experience are better! Reducing the resolution in order to get higher frame rate in game will cause the visual quality to be rougher and fuzzier. Please find as example the following screenshots comparison:

Figure 1. With a physical resolution of 1280×800, the overall visual quality is sharp.

Figure 2. Reducing resolution from 2560×1600 to 1280×800, the image quality is getting rough and fuzzy, there are jagged lines on the screen, and the pixels are grainy.

Do not be fooled by high resolution, the current gen of integrated graphics module aren't enough performant yet and the result is still remaining the same as before: high resolution = low FPS, low resolution = high FPS.

Taking Cyberpunk 2077 as an example, you can see frame rate performance at different resolutions:

As you can see from the previous table, when the resolution is 2560×1600, Cyberpunk 2077 has only 8 frames per second, the game is unplayable!

Newly designed joysticks that can also serve as L3/ R3 buttons when being pressed down

In terms of analog joysticks, WIN Max 2021 adopts a sink-in design and Xinput API , similarly to the Xbox 360 controller. The ultra-durable dual 3D joysticks produced by Japan Alps offers L3 / R3 functions (on a 360 ° rotation use) by being pressed down. In terms of use lifespawn, the potentiometer and center stack of the joystick can be used for 2 million and 5 million spins respectively. To avoid finger-slipping during gaming, the joysticks have curved rocker caps made of hard materials with strong resistance (the right joystick is in the same position as on the GPD WIN).

In terms of D-pad, WIN Max 2021 uses an unibody one with split arrow keys like on the PS4 controller to facilitate subtle precise movement. The ABXY buttons are still made with double symbole inner printing, with appropriate spacing between the buttons that facilitates comfortable use without miss-press.

The L1 / L2 R1 / R2 buttons have highly-reliable Panasonic micro switches, with mechanical service life reaching 10 million use and electrical service life reaching 100,000 times, aswell as an operating temperature of -54 ~ 177 degrees Celsius.

Select, Xbox, Start buttons are located near the top left hinge to facilitate operation with left thumb. Clicking the Xbox button while streaming an Xbox game can turn on / off the joystick and activate functions such as "home screen", "long press to turn off", "screen capture", "snap to position".

Built-in backlit keyboard, mouse and touchpad

Especially because of the two sets of keys;"QWER" and "ASDF", which are most commonly used by players; main keys size can't be reduced in order to achieve desktop-level tactile feedback. Under these circumstances, WIN Max 2021 adopts a standard "QWERTY" chiclet-style full keyboard layout with backlight, making it easy to transform the machine into a perfect mini-gaming laptop by connecting an external mouse.

Whenever you don't have an external mouse but you want to play games requiring one, just turn the “mouse / joystick” switch on the side of machine, it would immediately turn the joystick into a track point and L1 / R1 as mouse click left / right, allowing you to use the machine as a handheld, making it fit for more usage scenarios than gaming only.

Even without the mouse / joystick switch function, WIN Max 2021 also has a built-in touchpad, which supports gestures up to three-fingers and mouse click operations.

Whether for gaming or office work on the go or at fixed locations, WIN Max's built-in handle + touchpad can be used for many use, anywhere, any time.

Dual fans + cooling pipes, high displacement side-blow design, 9 ventilation holes for fast heat dissipation

To improve thermal performance, WIN Max 2021 adopts a PC-grade cooling solution with high-power twin turbo fans + dual heat pipes, high-displacement side-blowing design, 9-hole ultra-short-distance ventilation highly efficient which is 8 times stronger than WIN 2's heatsink.

The BIOS can dynamically adjust the fan speed from 2700 ~ 6300 RPM based on the internal temperature from 20 ℃ to ~ 80 ℃, 70℃ being the second temperature threshold triggering the increase of fan speed.

At the same time, the BIOS also contains three TDP schemes (15W, 20W, 25W) which can be customised, allowing gamers to choose what match the most their needs and offers the ability to achieve best energy efficiency ratio and heat dissipation effect depengind their applications.

The BIOS can dynamically adjust the fan speed from 2700 ~ 6300 RPM based on the internal temperature from 20 ℃ to ~ 80 ℃, 70℃ being the second temperature threshold triggering the increase of fan speed.

At the same time, the BIOS also contains three TDP schemes (15W, 20W, 25W) which can be customised, allowing gamers to choose what match the most their needs and offers the ability to achieve best energy efficiency ratio and heat dissipation effect depengind their applications.

The BIOS can dynamically adjust the fan speed from 2700 ~ 6300 RPM based on the internal temperature from 20 ℃ to ~ 80 ℃, 70℃ being the second temperature threshold triggering the increase of fan speed.

At the same time, the BIOS also contains three TDP schemes (15W, 20W, 25W) which can be customised, allowing gamers to choose what match the most their needs and offers the ability to achieve best energy efficiency ratio and heat dissipation effect depengind their applications.

For a productivity tool, the higher the score of multi-core performance is, the better. We used PCMark 10 for the benchmark test and got the following scores:

From basic function tests to productivity and digital creation, the R7 4800U scores are far ahead, while the gaming score is pulled down. However, the overall score is still the highest.

Regarding GPU comparison, the Intel Iris xe GPU has obvious advantages, the overall performance exceeds MX350, and some floating-point dperations exceed mx450.

Gamers know that the MX100 to MX400 series launched by Nvidia are unique, carrying the important task of enhancing the graphical aspects of games for thin and light notebooks. The current generation of Intel iGPU is usually compared with the NVIDIA MX series. The picture below shows the benchmark test for the two GPU on 3DMark against the MX350. The Intel Iris Xe GPU wins with 768 shaders.

One of the criteria for evaluating the performance for a GPU is the floating-point computing capability, which includes half-precision (FP16), single-precision (FP32), and double-precision (FP64). The following table is a comparison of floating-point operations on the three mobile graphics cards:

Intel Iris Xe iGPU's performance is the strongest; AMD Radeon Vega 8’s half-precision and single-precision floating-point computing capabilities also surpass the MX350.

With a top of 35W, the performance of LPDDR4x 4266 memory bandwidth can be maximized

* The three scores represent read, write, and copy speed during the test, the corresponding products are all dual-channel.

Due to the integrated PCIe 4.0 bus specification, the bus bandwidth is doubled. The WIN Max with a built-in Intel processor perfectly supports PCIe Gen 4 SSD and is backward compatible with PCIe Gen 3 SSD. The theoretical read and write peak is as high as 7.877GB/s. The system's virtual memory’s speed is doubled at the same time, and the game’s smoothness is greatly improved.

The following table shows the read/write test of WIN Max and WIN 3 with PCIe Gen4 SSD built-in, and compared with Surface Pro 7. It can be seen that the sequential read of Samsung 980 Pro 500GB exceeds 5000MB/s, and the sequential write is over 3300MB/s. The read speed even exceeds USB4!