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OneXPlayer has constructed a popularity for making wonderful handheld gaming PCs, such because the OneXFly, in addition to experimenting with some odd designs that do not fairly hit the mark. This time it is having a second bash at making an exterior GPU, known as the OneXGPU 2, to provide handhelds, tablets, and fundamental laptops a much-needed gaming enhance.
The primary iteration of the OneXGPU is not sensible if I could be considerably blunt. With a Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics processor and an M.2 2280 SSD socket, the $700 system could be very dear and tries a bit too exhausting to be all issues for all individuals. However even with a full-speed USB4 cable, there’s barely sufficient bandwidth for the GPU and SSD.
So after I learn that OneXPlayer has launched a brand new Indiegogo challenge (through Videocardz) to fund the event of the OneXGPU 2, I used to be curious to see what was totally different this time. Whereas the crowdsourced funding web page lacks some crucial data, the largest enchancment is that the GPU has been significantly beefed up.
Particularly, it is a Radeon RX 7800M, and that is a a lot nicer prospect than the earlier RX 7600M XT. For starters, you are getting much more graphics processing skill because it sports activities 60 compute items (for 3,840 shaders) in comparison with the 32 within the RX 7600M. There is not any phrase on what the clock speeds are however it should have 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM.
Now, earlier than you zoom off to be taught extra concerning the Radeon RX 7800M, it is price noting that, so far as I can inform, that is the first-ever look and even AMD does not have something about it. I strongly suspect that it is based mostly on the identical Navi 32 GPU that powers the desktop RX 7800 XT, albeit with one MCD (memory-controller die) lacking.
If it’s a Navi 32 processor contained in the OneXGPU 2 then the efficiency needs to be actually good, even with the lowered reminiscence bandwidth, because the father or mother chip is not any slouch in 1440p gaming. Much more necessary is that if OneXPlayer has a provide of those chips coming in, then so too will laptop computer distributors, which suggests we may see extra gaming laptops with a good Radeon dGPU inside them this yr.
As you’d count on, there’s a complete gamut vary of connection choices: an OCuLink interface, one USB4 port, two DisplayPort 2.0 sockets, a single HDMI 2.1 socket, two USB Sort-A ports (in all probability USB 3 however no thought which era), a microSD slot, and a gigabit LAN socket. Oh and the M.2 slot remains to be current.
That is all nicely and good, however there’s nonetheless the problem of there simply not being sufficient bandwidth, even with a USB4 cable, to completely help a quick gaming SSD and a robust GPU. Because of this the OneXGPU 2 will in all probability nonetheless solely help Gen3 SSDs, which is okay, however not excellent for one thing prone to be nicely north of $800.
We have contacted OneXPlayer within the hope of discovering so extra particulars concerning the OneXGPU 2 and if we be taught something new, I will let you already know.