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On paper, the Flip has almost everything, except a price point.
We've finally seen AMD's 'new but not really new' AI 400 range in a gaming handheld, and surprisingly, it's one with a rather small OLED screen and a rather large battery.
The Ayaneo Konkr Fit is the company's upcoming Windows handheld gaming PC. It comes loaded with the AI 9 HX 470, which was only recently announced. With four Zen 5 cores and eight Zen 5c cores, and clocking in at a max boost clock of 5.2 GHz, it's a pretty powerful chip.
Previously, Ayaneo's Konkr range has relied on Snapdragon chips, namely the G3 Gen 3 or 8 Elite. This is a step above the Android-based OS of the Snapdragon Pocket Fit. Built-in Windows support gives the handheld a boost in terms of compatibility with vast libraries of games on Steam and anti-cheat.
If you're confused on the naming, the Konkr Fit is the one with an AMD chip, Windows operating system, and a larger frame. It comes with a seven-inch OLED screen. The Konkr Pocket Fit is Android-based, smaller, and presumably cheaper, with this model ranging from $299 to $329. The Pocket Fit comes with a six-inch LCD display. They look nearly identical but the Windows model is clearly much larger when viewed side-by-side.
We've liked Ayaneo devices a lot previously. Its Flip DS is a great clamshell Windows device, and the more recent Ayaneo 3 is flawed but very customizable and powerful.
You can see the AMD Konkr Fit in action in Ayaneo's latest live stream, where the host picks it up and shows it off to the camera. We don't get much testing, unfortunately, but we do see a little bit of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay. On first glance, the Konkr Fit looks very much like the Konkr Pocket Fit, but it's rather chunky on the side.
That size is likely to accommodate the big 80 Wh battery. That's the same size battery as the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X. Naturally, battery size doesn't totally indicate battery life, as different components use different amounts of charge, but the AI HX 470 does drop down to a 15 W TDP, which is the same as the Xbox Ally X.
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In fact, the Z2 Extreme, which is rocking the same 890M graphics as the AI 470, is a pretty good parallel as far as gaming handhelds are concerned. We're talking higher boosts, but the same RDNA 3.5-based GPU architecture and 4 nm process.
Source: PC Gamer
