Before the Steam Deck, Chinese company GPD was the king of the handheld gaming PC market and many people attribute the rise in popularity of these devices to the firm. With Valve’s first crack at things now firmly on the market, GPD has revealed a new contender in the form of the Win Max 2.
The first GPD Win Max, a product that’s still available to buy, is a handheld PC that looks a lot like an old netbook albeit with full gaming controls and support for an external graphics card if you ever want to turn the mobile experience into a more traditional gaming PC.
The 2021 version of the Win Max can be bought with an AMD Ryzen 7 4800U or an Intel Core i7-1195G7. The Win Max 2, on the other hand, has been announced solely for an Intel build with the Intel Core i7-1280P. This mobile offering has 14 total cores (six performance and eight efficiency cores) and can boost up to an impressive 4.80 GHz.
This processor is the big selling point of the Win Max 2 and should give it enough power to compete with anything on the market, even the Steam Deck. The big difference here will come down to price as GPD products have always been expensive whereas Valve offered its handheld PC at a much lower cost intending to make money back through selling games on Steam.
The full announcement of the GPD Win Max 2 specs can be found below along with the very simple line illustration of the device. No release date or pricing is attached at this time but the company will likely crowdsource funding to produce these devices as it has for all its previous products.
Ultra narrow border-Win Max 2!
10.1″ 2560×1600 original landscape but size similar as initial Win Max
2 PCIe gen4 solt
16/32GB RAM
SD and Micro SD slot
4G LTE
Hall stick, analog trigger, gyro, magnet cover
65W/h battery
Build in camera
Alloy body
TB4 port
Starting lineup I7-1280P pic.twitter.com/Xtdi36MFhQ— GPD Game Consoles (@softwincn) March 28, 2022
