GPD’s monster Strix Halo handheld requires a battery ‘backpack’ or a 180W charger

Yesterday, I mentioned however GPD is teasing the astir potent handheld yet made — a GPD Win 5 that volition location the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip, with AMD’s astir almighty integrated graphics yet, wrong a PlayStation Vita-shaped machine.

If you’ve been wondering however that immense spot could adjacent fit, handheld adept Cary “The Phawx” Golumb now has the answer: the 7-inch handheld volition seemingly person nary interior artillery taking up space. The Win 5 is designed to either beryllium plugged into the wall, with a gaming laptop sized 180-watt charger providing the foodstuff — oregon powered by a large 80 watt-hour outer artillery “backpack” that volition (only? additionally?) beryllium sold separately.

We tin spot the afloat spec expanse for the caller Win 5 successful the Phawx’s video, and arsenic helium notes, GPD had to marque its Win 5 larger than the Win 4 adjacent before you adhd that backpack battery.

While the Win 4 is simply a compact 6-inch handheld with a 45 watt-hour pack, the Win 5 with its 7-inch surface volition beryllium narrower but thicker than the Asus ROG Ally X handheld — which is an apt comparison, considering that handheld likewise pairs a 7-inch surface with an 80 watt-hour artillery pack.

Here, though, the artillery volition adhd other girth: it’s astir 4 inches (110mm) wide and tall, and 0.7 inches (18mm) deep; it’s not wide however it attaches yet, arsenic GPD has lone shared the 1 acheronian video of the Win 5 filmed from the front, but the spec expanse mentions a “Battery to Host Dedicated Connector” as an accessory, truthful it mightiness necessitate plugging successful a cable.

If you’re funny what the handheld’s controls mightiness look similar successful amended light, I tried brightening it up:

Other intriguing things we tin spot successful the afloat spec expanse include:

• A 120Hz adaptable refresh complaint screen, wherever the Win 4 was constricted to 60Hz
• Two configs: AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (16C/32T/ Radeon 8060S) oregon AI Max 385 (8C/16T/ Radeon 8050S)
• 32, 64, oregon adjacent the afloat 128GB of unified representation AMD offers for these chips
• USB-4 with 100W PD charging and 8K/60 DP output
• Two fans and 4 vigor pipes for cooling
• An optional HDMI and USB dock with a “battery charging slot,” presumably for the outer battery
• No notation of immoderate integrated keyboard, whereas erstwhile Win devices had a hidden keyboard underneath a sliding screen

You tin peruse the full expanse astatine your leisure successful the Phawx’s video oregon the screenshots we took from Phawx (with his permission) below. Be definite to pat a mates of times to marque them ample capable for afloat reading.