PCs with a portable console industrial design have become fashionable lately after the launch of the Valve Steam Deck and its rival, the Aya Neo. Although the most veterans know that GPD is a company that has been at it for longer. Well, the GPD Win Max 2 has just been introduced as an alternative. How does it present itself against its competitors?
The retro consoles of Chinese origin did not appear recently, rather we have had a massive invasion of these products in the last couple of years. This has caused the GPD, also based in the country of the yellow river, to be forced to offer products of the same type with better specifications, with its GPD Win being its current star products.
Contrary to Valve’s Steam Deck, in the case of the GPD Win we find a complete laptop in a compact size. Which is rather focused on being able to play not only PC games from anywhere, but also enjoy retro games. That is, console and computer titles that are already discontinued from the commercial circuit. Especially the consoles that came out in the early 2000s, where classic low-end retro consoles have serious performance issues. Let us see, therefore, what novelties the new GPD Win Max two.
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 consequently a configuration of 6 P-Cores and 8 E-cores inside. Specifically the i7-1280Pone of the models with a 28W TDP, which seems very high for a design of this type. So we believe that 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 two M.2 SSD NVM socketsand 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 the moment.
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 grown from 8 inches and a resolution of 1280 x 800 to 10.1 inches and one 1920 x 120 resolution0. This increase in screen size will not entail a considerable increase in the system. It will already go from having dimensions of 207 × 145 mm to 228 x 160mm. The catch behind it? There will be less space on the edges, which you can see in the image above these lines. Although at the moment we do not know what the button layout 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 equipped with a keyboard.
