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A powerful new gaming handheld has just been unveiled with a powerhouse of an AMD chip, showing in-game performance that, at first glance, makes it a serious competitor to the Steam Deck. The GPD Win 5 is the first handheld to be unveiled with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU, bringing a GPU that’s in some respects more powerful than the one in the PlayStation 5.
This flagship AMD Strix Halo processor is a serious entry into the mobile PC gaming market, mainly because it has an AMD RDNA 3.5 GPU with 40 compute units. As a point of comparison, the PlayStation 5’s RDNA 2 GPU only has 36 compute units, and even the desktop AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics card only has 32. It will be restricted by its use of shared system memory and power constraints, of course, but in terms of GPU power, this new device could easily end up topping our best handheld buying guide, where we already recommend its older sibling, the GPD Win 4.
GPD teased this new handheld device in a video posted on YouTube and on its social media accounts, which you can see above. The post shows the GPD Win 5 being used to play Black Myth: Wukong, although it’s unclear if this is a screen recording played back or if a Bluetooth controller is being used to control the handheld in real time.
The clip shows the handheld playing the game with a frame rate of between 170 and 212fps throughout the video, although there’s no information about the graphics settings used for playback. No other information about the GPD Win 5 has been revealed so far, while the handheld is deliberately shown in dark lighting – it is a teaser, after all.
The stats shown on-screen do show the handheld hitting temperatures of around 65°C, however, with the 16-core Strix Halo CPU’s power usage hovering between 55W and 58W. The AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU incorporates an AMD Radeon 8060S, an RDNA 3.5 GPU with 40 Compute Units, which is shown on-screen maintaining a clock speed of just under 2.5GHz.
We had a chance to test out a lower-spec Strix Halo CPU in our Asus ROG Flow Z13 review, which has 32 compute units in its GPU, rather than 40, but was still surprisingly capable for an integrated GPU. For example, it averaged 86fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1,920 x 1,080 with high settings and FSR 3 on the Balanced setting, and that’s without any heklp from frame gen.
The handheld itself looks to have a fairly standard layout, with buttons, keypads, and joysticks on both sides, although the dark lighting makes it tricky to make out anything groundbreaking. GPD suggests that the handheld will make its debut at the Chinajoy 2025 tech show, set to run between August 1 and August 4, so we’ll hopefully see more details about it then.
If you’re looking for a seriously powerful AMD handheld that you can buy right now, then check out our AOKZOE A1X review next, where we put our current Windows handheld favorite through its paces. Meanwhile, our best gaming laptop guide, meanwhile, has a solid list of recommendations for on-the-go gameplay on slightly bigger screens.
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