- For years now, companies, both large and small,
have teased the idea of a PC that's both small enough
to be held in your hand
and powerful enough to play AAA games.
And we've actually gotten close.
But never
this close.
Meet
the GPD Win 3.
It's got a Core i5 processor with Xe graphics.
Massive cooling potential.
Console-quality buttons and joysticks.
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Plug in the included brick.
Pretty basic power brick.
Type-C to Type-C cord.
It's nice, has Type-C charging and
first impressions.
This thing is
freaking
heavy.
Like, it's substantial.
It's got a magnesium alloy chassis,
but that still doesn't prevent it from
being like, hefty in the hand.
So there's just gotta be a ton of guts in there.
And I guess kind of makes sense.
I mean, this is basically a laptop,
but like, folded over itself and with a really small screen.
As for ergonomics,
first impressions are not great,
to be honest with you.
Something that might have helped a little bit, for me,
would be if it was maybe angled out this way
a little bit more, just 'cause, you know,
your arms come together to hold something.
So it's a little unnatural to have
your wrist back like this.
If you're into racing games
the ergonomics are like, basically bang on.
You've got dual joysticks and those are super easy to reach
along with two shoulder buttons and two trigger buttons.
But as soon as I start getting into the D-pad, which is,
wow, that is a really nice D-pad.
The problem is is that like, holding it,
you end up in kind of this weird, like, claw grip.
And reaching up to the top, unless you have larger hands,
might not be the most comfortable thing ever.
There's still a lot of great features packed in here.
Both of the joysticks have R3 functionality.
So you can click them in to press.
The ABXY buttons feel really good, too.
And this is cool.
I remember playing Final Fantasy VII as a kid
on a PC emulator.
And one of the problems I ran into was trying
to blend in with the soldiers as cloud.
You're supposed to like, press buttons to,
like, do certain moves.
And I didn't have PlayStation symbols on my game controller.
But look at that.
They put little PlayStation symbols on there.
Maybe just small enough that Sony won't see them (chuckles).
Also, on the top, we've got PC-like IO.
So we've got a microphone headphone Jack,
volume-up, volume-down, power button.
And this is freaking amazing.
These triggers are apparently analog triggers.
So you can see the engine revving just a little bit,
or a lot.
I know this is an older game,
but still,
come on!
Running at Ultra, it is a decent-looking game, still.
Okay. I don't know what this means behavior is (laughs).
Did I mention it's pre-production?
Alt.
F4.
(Linus exclaiming)
I'd like to see you do that on your PS Vita.
And there's two buttons back here that GPD says,
according to the Fox,
they are going to provide a software tool
to remap buttons or even macros for.
If their initial sort of software that they included
on my early unit is anything to go by,
I don't know how amazing that software will be,
but
hey,
it'll be there.
Like, some of these things seem pretty cool.
Just like quick shortcuts to tools you might like,
like MSI Afterburner. We'll get that installed in a minute.
But this resolution ones
(Linus laughing)
kind of freaked me out earlier.
'Cause I set it to 480x640.
Not realizing, 'cause I was just looking at it quickly,
that that's a vertical resolution.
And then it just--
It's like stuck here.
And I was like, wait, what? I can't--
I'm stuck now. It's okay. It's okay.
We can get out of it by pressing A
and then going back to the widescreen resolution.
Now you probably see here, it runs at 1280x720.
So that is not a lot of resolution.
But on a screen this small,
that's something like 270 pixels per inch.
So
text is noticeably blurry.
But in games, I am not expecting it to be a problem.
The bigger issues for me are the size.
It's 5 1/2 inches.
It would have been really nice
if the bezels were just a little smaller,
and pixel response time.
So as you even just drag a window around on the screen,
you can tell that this HIPS display,
while it has really vibrant colors,
is
not great when it comes to pixel responsiveness.
Also, it only runs at 60 Hertz,
which isn't going to be an issue for AAA gaming.
But if you're running into your older games,
you could have potentially taken advantage
of a higher refresh rate display.
There's a couple of other things I want to show you.
It has a micro SD slot over here that I've got loaded up
with a 512 Gig card. We'll see how that works.
As well as GPD's typical mouse/ game controller
switch mode button here.
So what this'll do,
it's not actually working on my early unit here,
but it'll allow you to use the joysticks
and shoulder buttons as your mouse.
From my previous experience with it,
it works really freaking well.
Like, impressively well.
And you probably won't end up missing a touch pad at all.
On the bottom,
yeah, I didn't even mention this.
Stereo speakers.
Thunderbolt 4.
Freaking Thunderbolt!
So you know we're going
to be playing around with that later.
Of course, the big thing everyone wants to know is,
what is this keyboard like?
It's backlit.
You can tell it's illuminated from the top.
And there's like a diffusion layer in there.
Let's try, like, I don't know.
What do people ask Cortana?
Weather.
There's a little bit of vibration, actually.
But I don't know if I would quite describe it as
haptic.
Man, I mean, it's haptic,
but it's more like, the whole unit kind of vibrates.
It's not like it feels specific
to the keyboard.
And the whole thing is,
it feels just like a piece of glass or something.
Did I mention this is Gorilla Glass 5 up here?
There's only a left Shift.
So if you wanted to use punctuation, for example,
you wanted to,
you know, capital Q, put in quest.
One bright spot is the hinge mechanism.
Considering what a small company GPD is,
this is surprisingly refined feeling.
Like, it slides up,
locks in place.
Slides down nice and smoothly. Locks in place.
And
I think I kind of have to forgive the
admittedly-horribleness of this keyboard
because the purpose of this device is gaming, first.
Like, if we were looking at something
like their previous P2, which was supposed
to be a hyper portable laptop for like,
typing up your essay on the train
as you head into school at the last minute.
This would have been unacceptable.
But if it's just like, you know,
we need to save some space compared to a membrane keyboard,
but we still want the ability to quickly
Alt+Enter if a game opens in,
you know, Windowed mode or something like that.
Then
it's got everything that you really need.
So
I'm okay with it.
I'd be negligent if I didn't say how well
the fingerprint scanner works. The answer is really good.
So that's
(Linus chuckling)
really good inclusion when you consider how hard it would be
to type passwords on the-- include the keyboard.
Okay. Can't tell if that's taking the screw out
or just stripping it.
I think it was stripping it.
Dang it!
Maybe you're right, Andy.
Might have to talk about the specs
without being able to look at them.
No, I think I got it.
So we've got a Core i5-1135G7 processor.
So that sits right under this cooler here.
We've got-- that is surprising.
A full-sized M.2.
So that's an 80 mil M.2
with how many little tiny, like,
40 millimeter ones are out there?
I would've thought they would've gone with a
smaller one.
Intel Wi-Fi.
So that's Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth right there,
with the antennas running, I don't know, somewhere.
Can't really tell.
Yep. Dedicated speaker.
Wait.
Whoa, hold on a second.
Is this one fake?
Okay. Yes.
It does have stereo speakers.
They're not amazing.
Whichever monitor you decide to order--
They're functional.
Functional.
Loud and functional.
Got a vibration motor over here.
Cool. Okay.
Got these little spring-loaded contacts for the rear,
like, macro buttons here.
And that's a 44 Watt Hour battery.
So GPD is rating this thing for
two to three hours under heavy load.
Anywhere from kind of six to eight under medium load
and 14 hours under light load.
Sounds reasonable enough to me,
based on what I know about this hardware.
But it's going to depend on how you configure it.
So that Tiger Lake CPU in there with Xe graphics
can go anywhere from 18 Watts all the way up to 28 Watts.
And that's something you can change around in the BIOS.
I didn't even mention RAM.
So it's got 16 Gigs of LPDDR4X 4266 memory.
And that's really important
because it's using onboard graphics.
As you guys might know,
GPUs are extremely memory bandwidth-hungry.
So the faster the system memory,
the faster you can go with an integrated graphics card
like the Intel Xe graphics in here.
Popping the cooler off means
I can't do any serious thermal tests.
But this is a pre-production unit anyway.
So we can't really do that.
And actually, no, this is just the fan itself.
This is not the heat sink.
So what are we looking at here?
Cooling for the VRMs.
Two heat pipes and a spreader on Intel's Tiger Lake CPU GPU.
And the RAM may be on the other side of the board?
I'm going to pop the whole board out right now.
Some of our system memory is actually down there.
So that means you might have an issue when it comes
to mounting double-sided M.2s in here.
It's curious that they wouldn't have just gone
with a higher-profile mount for it
because
it's-- Yeah, no, they don't have the space.
Yeah. That's why.
Alright.
Since we're at it,
this is a pretty unexceptional-looking Biwin SSD.
But what's cool is that
this is actually PCI Express Gen 4, Tiger Lake is.
So if you wanted to,
you could put like, a balling Gen 4 M.2 in here,
as long as it's not double-sided.
It's a one terabyte drive.
I guess I never mentioned that before.
So we have enough space for it,
if we have the horsepower for it.
I'll show you guys.
We're running at about 3.5,
3.6 gigahertz right now,
CPU at 100% while we download Cyberpunk.
Now watch this.
Literally half the CPU frequency.
So you're going to see even on Wi-Fi,
my download speed's probably going
to suffer a little bit in the middle here.
I know this is still not gaming,
but it is worth mentioning, like,
just navigating around on this thing--
This is a fast freakin' CPU!
Like, this is not
some
Adam
freakin' thing.
Like, it's responsive.
I figured medium details, no motion blur.
DirectX12 would be a reasonable target
for Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
I think it's fair to say this game runs at 30 FPS,
medium details.
You know what I want to know, though?
Okay. If I happened to be next to a wall outlet,
well, then what?
Yeah. I never mentioned this button.
It's just got a little X on it,
presumably for trademark infringement reasons.
But it's an Xbox button.
Surprisingly, when it comes to a GPU load,
we actually don't get any additional performance
for being plugged in.
So that's great news for mobile gamers, anyway.
I love these joysticks.
They're
really good!
Little bit longer trials.
It'll take some getting used to,
but I really like them!
Hello.
Dang it! There's so much stuff I want to run on this.
Like,
man, playing Broforce on this thing.
By the way, if you haven't played Broforce, sick game.
Check it out, bro.
There's definitely some driver issues.
DOOM Eternal wouldn't launch.
Said something about
known compatibility problem, Intel graphics.
They clearly have some work to do.
And Squadrons--
wait, what just happened?
- [Andy] Squadrons run?
- Squadrons.
I don't know.
The models were flickering in the menu.
I'm gonna to fly into an asteroid.
Well, the point is the game runs.
Memory card in slot A is corrupted. Needs to be--
Okay.
It's not, strictly speaking, Mario Tennis,
but I have definitely played Vita.
What is this?
- [Andy] What--
(Andy laughing)
- It's running great, though.
I'm at like, nearly a locked 60 FPS.
I sincerely hope that it goes without saying
that this is not exactly a use case that I would recommend.
I mean,
a 2080 Ti, or whatever the current version of this is.
Gigabyte sent over this ARS external dock
quite some time ago.
It's like, obviously overkill For gaming at 720p.
This is something that's really annoying
about the 720p display.
Windows 10 is really just not designed
for a display that's that low-rate.
So when you right click on the taskbar, for example,
you have to do this little scroll down thing
to see the task manager.
Like, there's going to be elements
of Windows that are just kind of off-screen sometimes.
I'd rather have a 1080p panel,
and then just run at non-native 720p in games.
Or run at 720p upscaled.
Ultra high.
V-Sync off.
Shoot, frames are gonna start running.
Because we're only using part
of that CPU GPU Tiger Lake combo here,
it's just like, not even loud.
To be clear, I am not recommending this use case.
But it was important to show just to demonstrate
how versatile this thing is.
Everything from emulating classic games
to running modern games
on this hardware at playable frame rates
to streaming off of a network-connected local machine
or a service like XCloud or Stadia
to hooking a fat GPU up to it.
This thing can literally do
all of it.
There's definitely some deficiencies.
It's heavy.
I think the shape,
like the overall ergonomic shape,
could have used a little bit more work.
And I expect this thing to be well over $500,
possibly even dangerously close to 1,000.
But if you're the kind of user
who's dreamed of something like this,
your dream has finally come true.
Of course, I should include some caution about Kickstarters
and Indiegogos.
In fact, we did a video recently talking about how
backing crowdfunded technology can often end
up being a disaster because even if they do deliver,
by the time you get it, it might be obsolete.
And there's already something better
from a more reputable company.
But
on the subject of reputation,
GPD actually has a great track record at this point.
And it seems like they mostly just use it as like a--
an interest gauging or cashflow exercise
for new products to get the runs right.
So with that in mind,
man,
this thing is sweet.
That's all I have to say.
Other than to thank our sponsor,
LG, for sponsoring today's video.
LG has launched their virtual showroom for CES 2021.
And the new LG gram 2021 has been announced.
You can check out LG and the LG gram
in their virtual showroom where they're going
to have all the latest technology on display.
The new grams all are running
the latest Intel 11th Gen processors
with Iris Xe Graphics.
That worked out well.
So they're going to have like this same kind
of graphics grunt.
They're Evo certified, and they have a new size.
16 inches that weighs just 2.98 pounds
with an 80 Watt Hour battery.
Fun fact.
The new 16-inch model has the Guinness World Record
for being the lightest laptop of its size.
14 and 17-inch size options are still available.
And all the displays are 16:10 giving you 11%
more screen area.
They're lightweight,
with long lasting batteries.
And there's an LG gram survey where you can win prizes
if you fill it out.
So you can check out all of that at the link
in the video description.
If you guys enjoyed this video,
maybe check out
our previous GPD videos
'cause that stuff's pretty sweet, too.
Actually, here.
It's one more thing I didn't mention.
This gives you a better look at the slide mechanism.
I asked our designers
for something other than black or gray.
And this is what they came up with
for a tech-linked hoodie.
You'll have to let us know in the comments,
what you think of it.