Possible GPD Win 5 spotted running AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 'Strix Halo' APU
GPD was one of the first gaming handheld manufacturers to adopt AMD's Strix Point APUs at the end of last year. While the company initially showcased the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with its Duo laptop, it quickly brought the same platform to the Pocket 4. Subsequently, it then upgraded the Win 4, Win Max 2 and the Win Mini to AMD's RDNA 3.5 and Zen 5-based APU.
While GPD, One-Netbook and others quickly adopted Strix Point, the more powerful Strix Halo architecture has been mainly restricted to mini-PCs. For instance, Colorful and Peladn have recently introduced the Smart 900 and Y01 mini-PCs, respectively, with the same AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU. Arguably, the GMKtec EVO-X2 (curr. $1,499.99 on Amazon) remains the best known of these for the time being.
However, it now seems that GPD is, or has, been prototyping a gaming handheld featuring the same APU as those mini-PCs listed above. For the time being, only a single cropped photo of this prototype has surfaced online. Nonetheless, the image reveals a few details. On the one hand, the image highlights that the device contains the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with its Radeon 8060S iGPU rather than the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.
As a result, the gaming handheld supposedly achieves 10,366 points in 3DMark TimeSpy for a three-fold advantage over the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370-powered Win 2024 2025. According to Cary Golomb, one should expect a roughly 20% uplift between the two APUs at circa 15 W. Consequently, this prototype must have been running with a particularly high thermal design power (TDP) to hit the numbers shown below.
On the other hand, the prototype has all the hallmarks of a GPD Win series device. With that being said, the device appears to lack the slide-up display of the Win 4. Thus, we could be potentially looking at the long-awaited GPD Win 5. Although Cary Golomb does not rule this out for now, he also stresses that he is 'not positive on this actually materialising'.
