New AMD APU hits high frames, but there’s a catch

OneXFly

Although AMD APUs look successful immoderate of nan best gaming handhelds, nan latest Strix Point chips are still difficult to find successful caller releases. However, nan caller OneXFly F1 Pro is making a debut pinch nan Ryzen AI HX 370 chip, and according to a benchmark successful Black Myth: Wukong, it managed to mean an awesome 58 frames per 2nd (fps) astatine a 15-watt thermal creation powerfulness (TDP). That’s an awesome result, but digging deeper reveals that AAA gaming connected nan spell is still not without immoderate sacrifice.

The OneXFly F1 Pro comes pinch nan Ryzen AI HX 370, which sports a full of 12 cores — 4 Zen 5 and 8 Zen 5c — arsenic good arsenic 24 threads. The maximum boost timepiece connected nan Zen 5 cores reaches 5.1GHz, but nan smaller Zen 5c maxes retired astatine 3.3GHz. The default TDP was rated astatine 28W, but it tin beryllium configured betwixt 15W and 54W. For an APU, nan AI HX 370 delivers coagulated graphics capabilities, arsenic it’s equipped pinch nan AMD Radeon 890M. It besides sports a 7-inch OLED surface pinch a refresh complaint of 144Hz.

The caller handheld was shown successful a short video made by nan manufacturer. It tin beryllium seen running Black Myth: Wukong, and nan gameplay looks smooth. The benchmark results explicate why — it’s moving astatine a dependable 58 fps, though sometimes, it dips arsenic debased arsenic 40 fps. Still, 58 fps successful a caller AAA crippled is thing to move your chemoreceptor up at, particularly if nan handheld is only moving astatine a TDP of 15 watts. Presumably, it could beryllium configured to devour much powerfulness successful speech for little artillery life, but that’s conscionable a guess.

Achieving a dependable near-60 fps astatine 15W comes astatine a price, though. The crippled is moving astatine 1080p — but that’s successful theory. In reality, it’s 1080p pinch 65% solution scaling, which intends it’s person to 700p. AMD’s FSR was enabled, and as Black Myth: Wukong supports framework procreation from some AMD and Nvidia, that could besides beryllium a factor. Lastly, nan trial was tally astatine debased settings.

The supra concessions don’t make nan consequence immoderate little impressive, but they decidedly contribute. Still, playing astatine debased settings successful AAA games is benignant of expected erstwhile choosing a gaming handheld. It’s unclear erstwhile nan handheld will make it to nan marketplace aliases really overmuch it’ll cost.

AMD is simply a immense subordinate arsenic acold arsenic gaming handhelds go, but truthful far, nan Strix Point lineup only made an quality successful this GPD mini PC. That’s not a gaming device, though, truthful OneXFly is nan first institution to motorboat a gaming handheld based connected AMD’s latest chip. AMD is expected to announce its next-gen Z2 Extreme spot during CES 2025, alongside a batch of different products.