News Emdoor Handheld Gaming PC Shown With Intel Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' CPU

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That GPU better be something to have a chance of beating the z1 extreme GPU. Given intel's history of terrible (until recently) integrated graphics I am not sure if it will beat the Z1 extreme. On the other hand, if the GPU is reaching 3Ghz, I would say it has a pretty good chance to beat it.
 
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That GPU better be something to have a chance of beating the z1 extreme GPU. Given intel's history of terrible (until recently) integrated graphics I am not sure if it will beat the Z1 extreme. On the other hand, if the GPU is reaching 3Ghz, I would say it has a pretty good chance to beat it.
I'm more concerned about how much power it might need to consume in order to beat the Z1 Extreme. The Asus Ally and Steam Deck aren't exactly super performant parts, but they're portable, and that means battery life and power are key factors.

I've done some testing with Steam Deck and it can run for about five hours straight while playing a lighter game like Hollow Knight. With a 42Wh battery, that means the whole device is only using around 8.4W. Now, granted, playing a 3D game the power use will shoot up a lot, but how will Meteor Lake compare?

The Arc A380 isn't exactly a power friendly GPU, using around 85W with my test card. We're basically looking at potentially A380 performance (give or take), with shared memory, in a 20–35 watt package. That could be some seriously short battery life.
 
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I'm more concerned about how much power it might need to consume in order to beat the Z1 Extreme. The Asus Ally and Steam Deck aren't exactly super performant parts, but they're portable, and that means battery life and power are key factors.

I've done some testing with Steam Deck and it can run for about five hours straight while playing a lighter game like Hollow Knight. With a 42Wh battery, that means the whole device is only using around 8.4W. Now, granted, playing a 3D game the power use will shoot up a lot, but how will Meteor Lake compare?

The Arc A380 isn't exactly a power friendly GPU, using around 85W with my test card. We're basically looking at potentially A380 performance (give or take), with shared memory, in a 20–35 watt package. That could be some seriously short battery life.
As long as people temper their expectations, and know what they’re getting into, I don’t see any problem with that. I feel like people will be a lot more forgiving of the battery life if it ends up crushing the graphics performance of the z1 extreme.
 

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This don't look at all hopeful. You don't need to look too far to get a sense of how well Alchemist is performing, relative to RDNA2 or 3. Just take a look at the existing Intel dGPUs performance. They can perform well, but the performance varies significantly from game to game, which is not ideal. Moreover if you look at the power requirement range, it starts at 20W, as oppose to 9 to 10W on the Z1 Extreme. It does make me wonder if Intel 7nm is a dud. Granted this is first gen 7nm from Intel, but I wonder how much can they optimize it.
 

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Intel in a hand-held device? Those Emdor people are either smoking something or Intel is paying them to make a prototype purely for marketing reasons.

 
Intel in a hand-held device? Those Emdor people are either smoking something or Intel is paying them to make a prototype purely for marketing reasons.

Or, you know, they just want to not get stuck with thousands of systems with no CPU to put in.
 
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