The Best Stays Best - AMD 8840U GPD Win Max 2 - Crazy In Depth Review

hello everyone my name is the fox in this video I'm going to reviewing gpd's latest gpd1 Max 2 this is using amd's latest 8840 and I suspect that a lot of you are very curious on how much better amds 8840 is over the 7840 U there's actually a ton of nuance and we have to go over so buckle up there's a lot to explore here and a lot of it might bake your noodle because we're going to be going in depth and kind of retreading old ground that I've already talked about on this channel previously and that has to do with essentially the older video that I had made where I said the steam deck TDP is wrong largely we're getting back into that same Avenue here because AMD is playing fast and loose with how TDP is actually calculated and what that actually means and putting 10 watt TDP on one machine and putting 10 watt CDP in the other machine they both use different amount of total system power despite the fact because I have two GPD wi Max 2 machines I can turn off the backlight on both of the LCDs I can set the brightness to both 50% I can tune the system exactly the same using different chips and yet both of them set to 10 Watt and I'm using slightly more power on the 84u the bottom line here is that we need to escape from benchmarking handhelds against TDP alone TDP is very important we should still have these slices that are in there because they are necessary as a part of an equation to get a holistic View of how total system power favors into performance it's actually necessary you can't just do one and expect it to be the same everywhere you actually have to do it all over the place I'm working on methods my own to properly test this against total system power and I'm going to start giving you a a lens into what that looks like now there are some things here that are going to be eye opening for you so we'll get into that in just a moment this video will be broken down a bunch of different parts so take a look at the chapter links below to be able to navigate this video a little bit better briefly to give you you guys an idea of the type of methodology I use when I'm doing the testing between the 8840 and the 7840 both of these are set to the exact same now while I do have some tests that I do run the Ram at 6,400 Mt for all tests between the 8800 uh the 88 4u and the 78 4u I'm running at 7500 Mt my settings that I use the power settings that I use and this is what's going to give us those better uh Power profiles like when we run indie games at it'll automatically clock down so you see that I'm going to use like 4 and 1 12 Watts or 4 watts to run an indie game that any 2D game that'll give us around 7 hours of battery life which is really like the top end of type of battery life you're going to expect when playing some games very briefly you can see my turbo boost is set to efficient aggressive TDP is going to change and I'm going to let you know whatever TDP I'm running anything at my power profile is set to power saver likewise the EP mode for that is set to 100 this is going to dictate the type of power that we're going to the CPU at EP 100 we're saying don't push too much power to the CPU uh which gives us more power to go to the GPU more often the other part of this that I'm running is 24.2 one uh driver set so the very latest drivers that's on both the 888 40u and the 78 4u likewise for Windows 11 22 H2 it's the latest version of that and that is the comparison between uh the 7840 and 8 8840 that's the type of configuration that I have set so you can get an idea of the methodology that I'm using now that you have a better understanding of my methodology let's jump into a synthetic gaming Benchmark the tool that I'm using is called Heaven all of my tests are run at 720p there are two different scenarios I have a CPU bound and a GPU bound CPU bound is basically all low settings is going to be challenging the CPU a lot more so be able to achieve a higher frame rate the higher frame rate is going to be demanded by the CPU largely being able to handle those drill calls and be able to get a higher frame rate whereas a GPU bound test is going to be challenging the GPU side of the package because CPU and the integrated GPU so we're going to be taking a look at how far we can push the GPU side with ultra settings extreme tessellation and eight times antialiasing so we're be able to get a better idea there so if we jump into this graph I'm comparing the 7840 versus the 8840 and I'm doing it against both types of Ram uh settings so one of them is running at 6,400 Mt and one of them is running at 7500 Mt I did this for both and this is a benchmark at every watt in this synthetic Benchmark up first let's take a look at the 78 40u the yellow and green lines this is pretty interesting because it's super sloppy it is how we think it should work if we take a look at 6400 Mt the yellow line for 740u that should be running faster this makes sense why it makesense is because the memory that is running on the device shares a clock domain with the memory controller that is the uncore part of the package so that is CPU GPU and uncore if we're pushing this frequency on the memory controller higher it's using more power thus starving power from the CPU and GPU so at lower tdps when we're running at a lower clock obviously we're going to get better performance because the the memory controller is running at a lower clock using less power more power to CPU GPU this makes sense this is what we want to see however it's really sloppy all over 7500 Mt is kind of crazy and even when we push more wattage into it when 7500 Mt starts to pick up we're seeing it not be even however if we take a look at the 88 40u the type of performance that we're getting is far tighter we are still better at the lower end for 6400 Mt on the CPU side however we break away at around 12 or 13 watt on 7500 Mt Ram setting on the 84u and more importantly as we're going up it's a very clean line showing you basically that percentage difference between the memory increase going from 800 MHz to 937 MHz so from the way I look at this there's a few things that we have to unpack here and as we go through this video a little bit more you're going to have a better understanding of where I'm coming from here is that the 88 40u whatever AMD is doing is handling this Ram a lot better than 7840 has so when we take a look at this in a CPU bound part of it higher TDP it's better to go to 7500 Mt lower TDP it's better to go to 6400 Mt RM so that has gives you a better understanding so whatever way you plan on running the system this is going to give you a better understanding of which direction you should go in switching over to the GPU bound side we're going to take a look at how this graphs along at every watt now this is interesting once again if we take a look at 7840 U the yellow and green lines what's interesting is 6400 NT is acting worse pretty much the entire way through something that we really shouldn't be seeing and 7500 Mt is slightly better all the way so at a GPU bound side where we're going to be stressed for performance we're going to be stressed for bandwidth on the GPU side we're not really seeing a large disparity here so this doesn't make a bunch of sense with the type of results that we're getting however when we take a look at 6400 Mt and 75 uh 7500 Mt on the 88 40u we see a line that corresponds to what we should anticipate 6400 Mt is winning at lower tdps on the 88 40u and switches over again around 13 watt this makes sense so again this is where I'm coming from where 84u seems to be handling memory a lot better than the 78 40u has once we go past 15 watt you can see that nice clean even disparity between the performance difference especially because we're so GPU bound here feeding that GPU is necessary we have a very clean difference in the performance difference between those two memory settings so from the way I'm looking at this the 88 4u is handling Ram a lot better than 78 4u this might be that there could be some Aisa updates coming for the 7840 where we can update our bias to potentially handle memory stuff better that is to be determined but right now 84u is handling this Ram a lot better and More in line with what we should anticipate we're obviously going to be getting into more benchmarks here again you can take a look in the chapter links below if you're interested but we're going to be talking about a lot of the things that the gb1 max 2 can do outside of just bench marking and stuff uh we're going to be taking a look at gbd G1 and how that runs on oculink there is something to be noted with oculink and I'll talk about that more in a second when we get into that particular section uh but we're going to be taking a look at you know the controls and everything else that makes the GB Max 2 so special so that part is still coming up before we touch base on the benchmarks there's this important part of the video and it's a bit of a Smoking Gun that we have to take a look at I'm going to show you the 784 U and the 8840 U running a 10 watt test now this 10 watt test that I'm running what you're going to be looking at is the battery lifetime that we're getting out of running a 10 wat test this is Batman Arkham Knight that I'm running and when we run this you can see that even though we know especially with the benchmarks coming up that the 8840 U is performing better than the 78 40u the reality is that the 78 40u is using less power it comes down to it's using around 7% less total system power than the 84u and this are these are using the exact identic IAL same settings so with my methodology that I already listed earlier on in this video I Set brightness to 50% I turned off the keyboard backlight everything is exactly the same same Windows version same settings everything is completely the same because they're both jbo Max 2s so it makes it easier to test and have them both at the same exact settings and with that we find that we have a 7% power difference total system power difference between these two platforms meaning that even though I'm getting 10% better performance on using 7% less power on the 740u so the actual difference in performance is very very marginal I'm going to go into a weird J position right here so please bear with me and follow along I'm going to be going into a battery life understanding of what you can get out of the gp1 max 2 but the part that I want to talk to you about is that I showed you that 10 watt test that we got around three and a half hours of battery life on the 8840 get around 3 hours and 45 minutes on the 78 40u at 10 watt so there's a 15minute difference in there despite the fact that the 84u is getting better performance it's getting getting better performance because it's using more power this is kind of understood and not something that's very special from 84u things are going to change when we take a look at a 25 wat test which I'm going to show you just in a moment but I wanted to mention here since we're kind of looking at this from a battery life perspective as well because I've been doing these tests you can also see that if we run an indie game it's going to take somewhere around four watts of TDP with medium brightness and with the keyboard backlight on this would give us of basically seven hours of gameplay however if we were to turn off the keyboard backlight and lower the back of the screen a little bit more really closer to around eight hours of battery life so I just wanted to kind of put this part in here just to give you a general understanding because I'm going to be saying one and a half hours battery life and three and three and a half hours battery life and that's like well that's not very great battery life but you can get up you can get seven and eight hours of battery life especially if a game doesn't demand it when we are pushing that load and demanding it obviously you're going to be getting uh different types of battery life so it's all just a balancing act of whatever you're going to be pushing having said that let's get into the next part part of this where we take a look at a 25 wat test and see how that differs at a at a total system power difference and what we're looking at here is the difference between 7840 U and 8840 U running at 25 watt shows that what's actually happening is we're only looking at a minute difference between the two yes we're are we are using around a watt and a half more total system power but the reality is that we're not really using all that much difference in terms of total system power and that one a half difference isn't going to show us that difference that we're gaining out of the 88 40u and largely again if we go back to my synthetic benchmarks that the 84u being able to use 7500 Mt Ram more effectively is what I believe is what's giving us these gains at higher tdbs on the GPU side so that is what we're looking at from a higher TDP point being able to actually extract better performance when we compare these two platforms so when we take a look at 10 watt it's very clear that we're getting better performance on the 88 4u because we are putting more power into the system we are spending more power and getting more performance effectively 7% better battery life on the 7840 means that this is marginal difference however at 25 watt we're going to be we're we are seeing some tangible differences now that I got that part of the way let's jump into game Benchmark so you have a better understanding now that you've kind of had this all front loaded for you in this part of the review we're going to be taking a look at the gp21 max 2 running amd's latest 88 40u now I'm going to be comparing it to the GB Max 278 40u so that we can get a clear understanding of what's going on if you just look at these particular benchmarks you're going to be losing out on a lot of nuance that is happening in this video there's a lot to understand all of the benchmarks that you're going to be seeing here are comparing the gb2 winmax 2 uh 78 40u and 8840 both running at 7500 Mt Ram however both of those are also running with the exact same settings and that I touched based on earlier you can take a look at my chapter link below and my methodology that tells you the the exact settings that same settings that I'm using it's looking like we can actually better use that Ram in the 884 as opposed to the 784 with that out of the way I want to quickly draw your attention to the benchmarks that you see on the screen now one of the things that I had done for the gb1 mini was to quickly show that all of my Benchmark data was pretty much mimicking everything that I have already shown on other GPD products I said that it's behaving just like other GPD products do and it for all intens and purposes it is the case so any of my previous benchmarks you could have just looked at those and got a good idea of what they were performing like having said that I'm showing you this just so you can see that all three of these systems the gbd1 mini the gbd1 4 and the gbd1 max 2 are all performing the same in this same TDP slice likewise they perform the same for everything else as well however for these these benchmarks I'm be showing to kind of reduce it so it's not so noisy and it's easier to see I'm going to reduce it so they we're only looking at the AMD 7840 running on the GB Max 2 running at 7500 Mt ram versus the AMD 8840 running at 7500 Mam and both of those we're going to take a look at and get a better understanding of how they compare at different tdb slices so if we take a look here you can see that at 10 watt effectively all of these are the same they're marginally different all of them are more or less in line the only difference is that we're going to see here is that the GPD Max 2 which says 7500 Mt Ram that's my updated score which has the latest AMD drivers likewise with the gpd1 mini it had later drivers and the wi4 had older drivers but that's the only difference between those particular benchmarks they see and you're not seeing that big a deal so let's go ahead and reduce this we're going to do going forward we're just going to be looking at the gb1 max 2 7840 versus the 8840 all right so here we are taking a look at the 10 watt TDP slice between the amd's 884 versus their 78 4u and what's interesting here is that we're seeing that we're looking at around a 11% performance different on averages and around a 6% performance difference on 1 percentile this is very important data and something that I showed you just prior is that when we take a look and we compare these two machines going side by side it's in actuality that the AMD 78 40u is using less total power both of them being exactly equal and that basically averages out to a 7% power difference so if we take a look at the 1 percentile we can see that we're relatively doing the same thing we're just spending more power and getting better performance in 88 4u and the 78 4u that is within this particular tdb slice next up we're going to be looking at the 15 wat CDP slice and once again our averages are around 11% better and our 1% tile is around 9% better going on the 20 watt and here at 20 watt we still have the performance Advantage the 84u is performing around 5% better on averages and around 8% better on 1 percentile and this is where things get kind of interesting because when we take a look at how power is affected at the 20 wat level we should to start to see a difference and here we are looking at the 25 wat TDP slice and once again we're still 6% better on averages and around 9% better on 1 percentile so everywhere we're looking here we're still getting better on the 884 the next game we're going to be looking at for benchmarks is dosx mankind divided this is running at 720p there is no upscaling on these games I also was using the direct X1 back end this is important because there is a directx12 version but it is one of the last directx11 hard games that exists and it's a very punishing game especially at Ultra presets it looks beautiful it runs its own engine which makes it great and more well-rounded to put in uh benchmarks because you can get Onre engine 3 Onre Engine 4 and that covers a bunch of games that are there but when you can start taking a look at other games I always love including it that's what we're taking a look at here so let's take a look at our 10 wat TDP slice and our averages looks like the 88 40u is doing about 28% better and our 1 percentile is 40% better so this is a gigantic difference between the two this could be just because of that one watt difference that we already know about if we were just to give the 7840 one extra watt that could be this giant difference that we're seeing here or at least close to it within the realm of being somewhat more in the realm of what's going on anticipating that you're going to get 40% better 1 percentile from the same wattage when we know that it's technically using more wattage isn't going to be the case here so just always keep that in mind let's go to the 15 wat TDP slice all right so here we are taking a look at the 15 wat TDP slice and things are starting to look a little bit more saier if we take a look at our averages the 8840 is only around 133% better and our 1 percentile is 20% better not that gigantic difference that we saw before because again as we're boosting up TDP the difference in power is going to be negligible really so the only differen that we're going to see is the differences of the 8840 starting to be able to use that better Ram that faster Ram in a bigger difference and we're going to start seeing that bandwidth Improvement coming to the 780m GPU let's go to the 20 watt TDP slice and next up our 20 watt TDP slice if we take a look at our averages we're looking at a 6% difference on our averages and a 7% difference on our 1 percentile but this is still within the realm of what the 8840 is doing especially as we go up to the higher wattage like I've already said and indicated so let's go ahead and take a look at the 25 wat TDP slice all right now when we're at 25 watt this is really the ceiling of where power is going to be going on 7840 or even the 88 40u this is where we're really going to be tapping out on how much bandwidth we have memory-wise so pushing any more power into is going to be near useless and there's going to be massive diminishing returns if we take a look at our averages we're looking at around a 4% better score on averages and around 5% better on 1 percentile still the 88 40u is a clear winner here especially when we take a look at it from Total system power up next we're be taking a look at Horizon zero Dawn this is running at 720p with the favorite performance profile again this is using its own particular engine and I like including it because something outside of Onre engine 3 or 4 or any other like Unity some other big game engine that is run on bazillion types of games where we have a static engines that can kind of show better performance across the board so with that in mind let's take a look at the 10w TP slice knowing that effectively the 7840 is using less power here if we take a look at the averages we're looking at a 29% performance Improvement on our uh averages and a 60% performance Improvement on our 1 percentile you may be asking well why don't I just bump up 74021 watt as I indicated before there's a lot of nuance to this and we need to be looking at this through a total system power lens I've included the videos prior at the two extremes so you have a better understanding of how power is distributed and how Works uh unfortunately TDP can be whed to be anything you can average it out to what you whatever you want especially how AMD plays fast and loose with this this happened initially on the steam deck likewise and so on I've already explained this before but let's get on to the 15 wat TP slice all right taking a look at our 15 wat this where things are going to start to even out a little bit more but if we take a look at our averages we're actually going up to 22% better on our averages and around 18% better on our 1 percentile again 84u does use 7500 M transfer Rams better like this is is from my earlier test when you can see it at every Watt on a CPU bound and a GPU bound on the synthetic benchmarks that I was running and the difference between 6400 Mt being better at the lower end and worse at the upper end and so clean of a line difference at the upper end for 7500 megat transfers on the 8840 clearly indicate that the 84u is using this Ram better moving along to the 20w CDP slice when we take a look at our averages we are actually getting a pretty nice boost we're on a 10% performance boost and our percentile we're doing around an 8% performance boost so really we're seeing that uh again from the way I'm looking at this it is of my opinion that the 84u is looking to use 7500 megat transfer Ram in a much better way moving right along up to the 25 watt TDP slice and we see that we're still looking at a 9% performance movement on averages and a six or 7% per Improvement on 1 percentile we also show that the0 2 percentile is down again a little bit that's an interesting thing and I wonder if what was going on with my a4u but that's the second time between 20 watt and 25 watt that we had a little bit of a lower score on0 2 percentile interesting nonetheless let's move along to the next game okay up next is returnal this game I love to include in benchmarks it is such a GPU bound test it absolutely brutalizes gpus and highlights the deficiency on a lot of handhelds because we are terribly deficient on GPU performance we have CPU Galore but we are so far behind on GPU that we are are starving for it and this is such a good test because we're getting such bad frame rate at 10 watt uh so it's a great game to highlight because we really need to have far more performance in the GPU segment at lower tdps to be able to tackle stuff that is exceedingly GPU bound so first we're going to take a look at these averages we again we're looking at 2 26% better averages and 43% better on 1 percentile not that that makes a giant difference between 8.7 frames and 12.5 frames but we're still getting a better result again remember the power difference there so let's go ahead and move to the 15 watt moving right along into 15 watt we can see that we have a 12% performance Improvement on averages and a 34% Improvement on 1 percentile moving right along into our 20 wat CDP slice our averages are looking around 7% better on the 84u and around 9% better on our 1 percentile let's go and take a look at 25 watt okay for our last Benchmark look at 25 watt on returnal we're looking at around an 8% performance Improvement on the 84u and again around a 9% performance Improvement on our 1% it's pretty clean look again remember early on in this video where I showed you the demonstration and visualizing the two differences between how 10 watt TTP Works across those two systems on a total system powerway and 25 watt in a total system powerway so that has to Nuance all of what you're seeing in these particular benchmarks so always make sure that you understand that and also keep that in mind when we're starting to look at other handhelds as well I'm looking into that so that I can properly review these across the board so that we have an actual thumb Mark of where performance stands on these particular devices all right so now that we're done with game benchmarks the other part that I wanted to mention is the egpu or using oy link on the gb2 max 2 obviously this is already available on the 78 4u and it remains to be available on the 88 40u but the thing that I want you to kind of make a note of is that on the back of the 84u is an oculink connector and this oculink connector on the back of the gp2 max 2 is not the best implementation what I mean by that is that if you wanted to get full uh pcie 4 if you push CPU clocks to a higher frequency you're going to crash the system so you're going to have to cap the CPU to about 3.3 GHz or just put TDP to about 25 watts so that it the CPU can't actually Spike up all that much and then you're going to have a much more stable system if you wanted to push the CPU to the max what you're going to really need is use the M2 adapter if you use the M2 adapter on the gb1 max 2 at that point you can go to as high frequency as you like and it's super stable so that's the only caveat here that I want to mention this is not the same as it is for the gb14 or the gb1 mini it's only really present on the gb1 max 2 so be aware of that when we take a look at our egb test but with the gbg1 this is using AMD 7600 MXT and go up to 120 watts I'm going to start off showing you a returnal that can go up to 120 watts because such a GPU demanding game and then we're going to do cyberpunk uh at like a lower resolution with rate tracing and you'll see that it'll automatically dial down to around 40 or 50 Watts uh of power on the GPU all righty so here I am I using gpd's G1 this is their external GPU that can also be used as a dock so you can see that I have oculink going into the back of the 84u gp2 in Max 2 as well as the Thunderbolt Port Port but that's actually just charging this device right now and I got my camera that is helpfully masking that out automatically so if we take a look on your top left you'll see our current presented frame rate so we're actually drawing 110 frames a second looking down right now which is not very helpful but if you take a look at total Graphics power we're at 104 Watts you can see CPU package power is at 8 watts that 8 watts is what is the CPU is running at and the total system power is at 28 Watt that's power going into the system charging the battery right now so I this is the battery test that I just did one of the videos for doing the 25 wat test I finished that up and now I'm doing this particular video so I can show you guys what it's like to play with an external GPU on the GPD windmax 2 this is using gpd's G1 which is it self using amd's 7600 MXT we're going to go and bump the settings up a bit because we're pretty much doing more than we need to right now so let's go in here we'll go in settings and we'll go to video well no we'll go to graphics and let's do epic and see what happens see how bad it makes our day all right all right so we're 1080p Max settings right now and what you can't really I don't know if you're going to hear it but the it's going to be hard to talk while I'm battling this I don't know if you can hear it but the rumble on the gp1 max 2 is excellent so right now I am using the analog sticks I'm playing on the gp1 max 2 right now my frame rate to Good Dip let me get those sweet sweet juice uh modified sarm no thank you that's not what I want just battling that dude took a lot out of me I should probably not do epic settings but I didn't know I was going to have an a norly battle right there so this is 1366 X 768 with rate tracing low and FSR enabled and we're getting a pretty healthy 60 FPS let me just make sure that I'm not like using uh vsync of some kind here because that number is awfully okay no vsync is off okay interesting listen Mano I got this thing if ior your wheels I so what's interesting here is right now I don't have it enabled but there is AMD smart shift which will kind of combine the power of the GPD G1 with the 88 40u so as far as AMD is concerned the dgpu that we're using over oculink is technically a like on the same system itself so it will share the same TDP the only thing you have to do is go into the BIOS and enabled smart shift and that'll do it for you and then you can just go ahead and push TDP as high as you like all right so I think that's a good look at using the GPD G1 the gpd's external GPU which also acts as a dock for the GPD windmax 2 the 884 version obviously you can use other oculink gpus which is what I do but if you wanted something that was an easy TurnKey solution the gpd1 is a solution that you can use all right here I am once again reviewing the controls on the gp21 max 2 largely there's only a few things that I want to talk about here and I'm going to reiterate and repeat myself quite a lot these Hall based analog sticks are absolutely fantastic when you can consider the depth of the sticks they're not going to be the best analog sticks in the world but for where they are and the placement and the functionality they are really amazing when we take a look look when I just push a little bit right the amount of finesse that I have like in pushing in anything there is no Cardinal magnetism they go exactly where I want now this is a very short throw analog stick like there's not a bunch of room here but it's really good now for a lot of people when you see this average error that's an average error for circularity I don't care that this makes a Perfect Circle Number One it doesn't need to make a perfect circle and in fact going over that is how it should be the steam deck does it Xbox controllers do it every good controller does this so making a perfect circle is not a quality indicator of how good the analog sticks are I understand that there are some people that don't like these analog sticks so your mileage may vary with regard to how you what type of analog stick you like maybe these are too small for you but the type of fidelity that you get out of it and just being able to push and the Nuance that you get out of pressing in these analog sticks in any given Direction they are great for their size they are actually fantastic for their size and next up obviously we have the vaik d-pad this is something if you've been following my channel for a while you know that I am an absolute fan of it when I first actually used the Vita d-pad I fell in love with it and it's why I asked GPD to be inspired by it the first time that this showed up on any device on GPD was the gpd1 max one and they've been keeping it going ever since and I'm so glad that they do because their implementation of it is really fantastic uh how they've done it on the gp1 max is's no way to bottom out on the d-pad itself you can see that when I'm pressing down in the center I'm actually just accidentally pressing on the side so there's no way to bottom out from the center of the d-pad also just rolling around is sensationally easy and also look listen not only is there an audit auditory feedback of which type of Direction you're pressing in not that that's necessary but even when you're pressing it so you can hear it when you press in a given Direction there is a noticeable click that is depressed under underneath your thumb that instantly tells you with the feedback that you've pressed in that direction which is why I become such a big fan of Dome based d-pads in general and the implementation by GPD is really fantastic also they're V like deep uh face buttons I mean there's not really much to talk about face buttons if they work they work and they work just fine on the back we have our analog triggers and they work just fine as well especially for the types of controls they are and how you're going to be holding it I love this implementation this sideways implementation much like how the steam deck is with uh sideways controls it just feels comfortable you also have this very large full-size keyboard where you're not going to get it on anything else I wouldn't say that thumb typing on this is something that you should do unless you have super large hands uh I have thumb typed on this from time to time whenever I didn't really feel like putting down on my lap however just using it as a laptop itself is what makes this device so absolutely versatile with being able to do both of them and straddle that line so well come not to mention that I have been using the 7840 version as my main desktop and I've been going out through oculink overall this is there's nothing like it on the market and GPD did a fantastic job with its implementation there's really nothing more that I could have asked from GPD here they made the form factor that I absolutely love and they killed it everywhere and so you can see the types of standby that way I have here we have modern standby which obviously isn't everyone's favorite we have hibernate and fast startup fast startup I really don't recommend I didn't disable it yet but I just recommend disabling it from the get-go S3 is not available anymore so basically we have standby modern standby and hibernate as our two standby options so that's my review on gpd's latest iteration of the gpd1 max 2 this is using amd's 884 so this would I guess be the gp21 max 2 2024 edition if you did not yet own a gp21 Max and you were thinking about owning one I really recommend it for what it's worth what you're seeing right now is actually running all my gbx to hooked up to a GTX 490 via oculink and that's what I'm recording on right now so it has been my desktop replacement for 8 months now uh it's been for a long time that I've been running this and I've been super happy with that particular setup so if you wanted to have something where you can take your desktop with you whenever you want it and it's a portable gaming laptop It's the Best of Both Worlds so I am absolutely a big fan of it uh it's not for everyone I wouldn't say it's for everyone but when we take a look at the build quality and how everything else reviews uh I am just I love the gp1 max 2 and I'm glad that GPD has made this particular form factor and I'm also glad that GPD went all out everything that you could have possibly asked for to be in the GB Max 2 is in it and they did a fantastic job I look forward to a GPD further upgrading the je Rex 2 with some other enhancements but that's it for right now I hope this was informative and I hope you have a better idea of uh how TDP is scaling on AMD side anyway that's it for me guys as always thank you for your time and thanks for watching

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Published: Fri Feb 23 2024