Most powerful Handheld pc buyer

Most powerful Handheld??

  • Steam deck oled

    Votes: 4 6.1%

  • Ayaneo kun

    Votes: 2 3.0%

  • Asus Rog Ally z1 extreme

    Votes: 18 27.3%

  • Msi claw 8 ai

    Votes: 3 4.5%

  • Nintendo switch 2

    Votes: 22 33.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 9 13.6%

  • Lenovo legion go

    Votes: 3 4.5%

  • Playstation portal Lol 😂😂😂

    Votes: 5 7.6%
  • Total voters
    66
GigaBowser said:
pc portables games tinker round with crud games nort even optermized by devs switch 2 best by million miles
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You ever heard of Steam Verified
 
USB4/OCulink ports in addition to streaming straight to the system is a no brainer for me. A docked monster pc thanks to egpu's is far better BUT... far more expensive. Especially when its something like the gpd win 4... or ps Vita 2 as I like to call it. Not to mention better game prices ofc.
 
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A better metric is performance/hour and I think Rog Ally X is the king here due to its monstrous battery size and robust Z1E APU. But really you're picking between great handhelds and which has the slight edge.

IAmRei said:
if You wait for few moment, surely somebody will make stronger portable than NSW2, but the games are not about power if You ask me
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PeteBull said:
Switch2 is most powerful by wide margin currently, to get something stronger handheld wise we will need to wait 1-2 more years for next gen steamdeck.
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Nah, no chance it hell with its limited 7W power usage in handheld form. The Rog Ally X at similar battery performance (30W) will give you way, way better performance. And this is factoring in Nvidia's upscaling advantages over AMD. The performance gap is simply too big when you factor in Rog Ally being able to push 4 times more wattages.
 
If price is a non-issue - OneXFly F1 Pro is the most powerful by a decent margin (of what's already on the market):


By summer there's supposed to be a bunch more of these AI 9 HX 370 (it's funny how AMD naming is just as bad as the manufacturers of these handhelds) based machines too, and they are around 30% faster than last gen(everything else in this thread) at same Wattage.

Also has erhm - 80TOPs? or thereabouts, at 30W - so it may even get FSR4 some day... maybe.
 
Klosshufvud said:
Nah, no chance it hell with its limited 7W power usage in handheld form. The Rog Ally X at similar battery performance (30W) will give you way, way better performance. And this is factoring in Nvidia's upscaling advantages over AMD. The performance gap is simply too big when you factor in Rog Ally being able to push 4 times more wattages.
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Ignoring TDP and undefined specs that we got none of yet from Nintendo (including upscaling capabilities - like how does it actually perform) - most of these APUs have CPUs that run circles around PS5 and XSX combined. So even if Switch ends up competitive on the GPU side, it's not even a contest on the CPU side.
 
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If we're talking raw performance its the Rog Ally X by a decent margin (its about 25% faster than the Z1E which was already the highest performer)

I'm inclined to ask why it wasnt included in the poll but the slower z1e was
 
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Handhelds with a Radeon 890m are launching within the next few weeks which will take the crown of most powerful.

But yes the pc handhelds powered by the Z1 Extreme or Ryzen 7840u/8840u are more powerful than the Switch 2.
 
PC handheld are pointless for me. I buy any system for one reason and one reason only…..it has games I want to play.

I don't need handhelds that only play games that I can play on other systems I already own.
 
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Most powerful? Probably a full fletched PC handheld. Best? Ayn Odin 2 Portal. Has everything I need, a 120 Hz OLED screen, 8", lightweight, capable to emulate all last gen systems and stream all current gen systems.
 
There's a bunch of powerful option on the higher end of the spectrum, like others have mentioned stuff like the OneXFly F1 pro or the Rog Ally X , though you'll usually be paying $1000 for the base mode of these.

The Switch 2 will probably give you the most "power per dollar" for a while though, since like every other console it benefits from the fact Nintendo can offset the hardware cost by selling you $80 games, paid multiplayer, paid voice chat and a single monopolistic online store approach while companies like ROG, OneXplayer, MSI, Lenovo, etc have to make the bulk of their profit from the actual hardware.
 
Switch 2, Steam Deck, or PS Portal. Anything else will definitely not be remembered in a year or two and probably have all kinds of fucked up shit wrong with it that will never get fixed, that you never new about until you paid and brought it home.
 
MSI Claw 8 AI+ gets my vote. Sure the HX 370 is slightly more powerful in raster games, but the claw has the accelerated version of XeSS, better RT, and better efficiency. It's remarkable how well it improved vs the first Claw. The only real negative is the price, at $900 it is not exactly cheap. But the HX 370 handhelds are even more expensive, by quite a margin.
 
GigaBowser said:
its all true my freinds ports switch 2 ports optermized in development thirs is why steamdecks cyberpunk looks like crud nort just powers

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Cyberpunk 2077 on the Steam Deck can look much better than that.



It just requires using XeSS Quality instead of using the 'Steam Deck' preset. The video linked is XeSS Balanced, but Quality is achievable with some tweaking of the settings, typical console optimisation stuff like lowering Anisotropic filtering and SSR quality.

Not sure how it will compare against the Switch 2 release version, but it can look better.
 
Switch 2, but I'd wait until FSR4 is available on new handheld PCs

Low-TDP performance is really bad on my Legion Go (Z1 Extreme)
 
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People are voting PS Portal unironically? Lmao.

I guess my Nintendo Switch is the most powerful portable, since it can play anything I stream from my PC. :goog_relieved:
 
Fafalada said:
If price is a non-issue - OneXFly F1 Pro is the most powerful by a decent margin (of what's already on the market):


By summer there's supposed to be a bunch more of these AI 9 HX 370 (it's funny how AMD naming is just as bad as the manufacturers of these handhelds) based machines too, and they are around 30% faster than last gen(everything else in this thread) at same Wattage.

Also has erhm - 80TOPs? or thereabouts, at 30W - so it may even get FSR4 some day... maybe.
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^^^ this. Gaming-focused GPU-skewed soc's are overdue but amd is finally starting in that direction. When those filter down, the landscape for integrated graphics will change a bit. It'll take a while.
 
Zathalus said:
Cyberpunk 2077 on the Steam Deck can look much better than that.



It just requires using XeSS Quality instead of using the 'Steam Deck' preset. The video linked is XeSS Balanced, but Quality is achievable with some tweaking of the settings, typical console optimisation stuff like lowering Anisotropic filtering and SSR quality.

Not sure how it will compare against the Switch 2 release version, but it can look better.
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This puts into perspective just how garbage FSR is. I never use it. Image quality and performance is always better with other upscalers and often times just setting it at 800p and letting the display upscale to display resolution gives me better and performance than FSR. AMD dropped the ball big time with FSR and it's probably too late to recover now. For handheld resolutions, FSR just makes the problems worse.
 
I voted "Other" because Z2 Extreme (890m) handhelds are coming in the next few months and those are the correct answer for most raw power. Legion Go 2 most likely
 
It's obviously the PlayStation Portal because it has the power of a PS5 Pro.
 
Once you drop the handheld moniker, laptops are going to offer almost all the same portability benefits, I'd argue they fit in a bag even better than a handheld, but with significantly greater performance capabilities. Or a HALO STRIX in tablet form likely wins over all.
 
Dacvak said:
It's obviously the PlayStation Portal because it has the power of a PS5 Pro.
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If you want to include streaming then you can have a 5090 + 7950X3D in the palms of your hands with any PC handheld. The PS5 Pro is nothing in comparison.
 
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Klosshufvud said:
A better metric is performance/hour and I think Rog Ally X is the king here due to its monstrous battery size and robust Z1E APU. But really you're picking between great handhelds and which has the slight edge.



Nah, no chance it hell with its limited 7W power usage in handheld form. The Rog Ally X at similar battery performance (30W) will give you way, way better performance. And this is factoring in Nvidia's upscaling advantages over AMD. The performance gap is simply too big when you factor in Rog Ally being able to push 4 times more wattages.
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I have first rog ally and steam deck, its cool, but the design are too big for me for prolong gaming. And also my ally left analog is broken, despite rarely used these months. I dont know how and why. I heard this first is not well built. Sigh...
 
Minsc said:
Once you drop the handheld moniker, laptops are going to offer almost all the same portability benefits, I'd argue they fit in a bag even better than a handheld, but with significantly greater performance capabilities. Or a HALO STRIX in tablet form likely wins over all.
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I just got my first tablet PC. Didn't buy it for gaming, but of course I'm trying it out. I really like it! Makes a lot of sense. You're right, in some situations, it's more portable. Big enough to set on a table and relax with a controller. Less convenient, but much better than the hunched over portable posture.
 
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